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any ideas on how to keep foxes away, found out today that our neighbours chickens have been killed by a fox. the piggies are not out at night yet but any ideas on how to keep foxes away,and how clever are they? How careful do i need to be?
I have a huge garden, but the hutches will be near the back door.
 
I have had the same prob, but mine are in the garage with that strong square chicken wire on the windows and a fox has bent it all in, i have just checked all the locks and and pulled the weather sheld down and put something aaginst it so the can't get in, but what about stackin up tin cans on top of your pigs hutch so if they try to get in the knock them all down and make a noise, allowing you to get up and check,
 
good idea, my bedroom window is to the back so i could set something up.
any other ideas anyone? They sound rather persistant.
 
Right mesh on hutches to make sure a fox cannot push the wire in you need wood front and back of it around the edges. You need to put extra nails over the mesh too. Foxes are cunning and can dig deep too. Hutches need to be of a very strong timber wood too if they are outside in the garden they have been known to rip the side off a flimsy hutch in order to get to the dinner get padlocks for them too. There are loads of foxes around here including fox dens in peoples gardens (window cleaner told me) and I see them all the time when my pigs are in the run I am out there with them or the kids are ;)
 
ive never had problems with foxes in my area and put the wheel bin in frount of the cages at night (to top covers blowing in night) so unless a fox can moce a full to the top well bin ill be ok anyways
 
kellyandpiggies said:
I would've said tins or something to make a noise too.
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I am as deaf as a post at night would not hear it. I still use a baby alarm for my kids so I hear them in the night hence all my other ideas to keep them as safe as I can. The baby alarm idea is a good one could be plugged into an out door power socket then you would hear them. Outdoor sockets can be brought in argos I need one for all the lights I have on my house at christmas ;D
 
Well if you want to get very clever, get someone to rig up a like electric fence but on a smaller scale actually on the out side of your hutch so when a fox comes sniffing touching it with a wet noise ,a hutch with a small sting will make them go away I'm sure, but make sure the pigs can't touch it and it dosen't have a current strong enough to hurt the fox,
 
piggybaker said:
Well if you want to get very clever, get someone to rig up a like electric fence but on a smaller scale actually on the out side of your hutch so when a fox comes sniffing touching it with a wet noise ,a hutch with a small sting will make them go away I'm sure, but make sure the pigs can't touch it and it dosen't have a current strong enough to hurt the fox,
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But its against the law to put even barb wire around anything that can harm any animal that has been put up even to deter burglers. Do not do anything like this as your breaking the law.
 
Well i am going to back right off but i am sure the farmers in this country do not break the law when they employ electric fences to keep in there cattle and stable owners for keeping in there horses which is what i was talking about!
 
I'm not sure how to advise you as far as the foxes go. The best advice I could give on that topic is to not put them outside if you don't have to.

Kimmie
 
will have to put them outside around may, the shed gets way too hot in the summer.
 
maisydaisystar said:
will have to put them outside around may, the shed gets way too hot in the summer.
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My first post on this thread is a good way of keeping the mesh in place so a fox could not rip it out :)
 
we too get foxes in our garden and i would never let any pigs be in just a hutch the foxes can and will get to them they are called cunning and wily for that reason apparently they can even chew chicken wire my hay farmer told me that he gets lots of them, I've been told to lay tiger poo in my garden which is all very well for me with a tiger zoo on my doorstep but know none of you can get this ;D noise is more of a deterant then anything and nasty smells not sure what they dont like though have to look that one up.
my son lives on a farm with his girlfriend who has horses and she has electric wired fence but believe you do have to get permission and it can only be strong enough as a deterant not kill,
my pigs are in a padlocked shed with wire at windows that are alwasy locked even at night I leave the fans on on a timer inside if hot, a neighbour once had her rabbit pulled to pieces in her garden by foxes and it was in a normal hutch they heard nothing, we had a fox not so long ago wake me up at 2am arguing with a cat over a black bin bag in my garden the noise was awlful and it unsettled my poor pigs for a while I had to go and sush them quite, if you think is that strong enough then it probably isn't ,
 
Chicken wire is way to flimsy I have galvanished mesh its very strong wilco sell it. My hutch is double lined with slated wood too. I have also got a double Hutch the sides are strong but the back is flimsy before it goes out side the back of it needs wood putting on. I have a single hutch that needs the mesh doing plus the sides and padlocks puting on before it can go outside. My 5ft hutch is as safe as it can be and I am not worried about the piggies going into it.
I looked last year at what would deter foxes and found nothing cunning, sly and very clever they are the ones round my way are blatant too.
 
Niki said:
Pumpkinpiggie said:
Chicken wire is way to flimsy
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It certainly is - a bun can chew thru' chicken wireeasily :)
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My friends bunny chews through hutch doors to peek out at the world. He nows lives in a shed he is so much happier :)
 
No, around the boreders of the garden? My dad has chickens and we were told that foxes dont like the smell of it, but are chickens are safe anyway.
 
Umm..
1. I don't know how true that is.
2. I don't think that she wants to have somebody peeing around her garden. I think that she meant how does she enforce the pen enough to keep them out.

Kimmie
 
I've got visions of my hubby peeing round our garden every time he wants to pee, our garden is quite big so would take him a week to do it I reckon, maybe its the same principle as tiger poo male hormone maybe
 
Yuck. It might work, I don't know. But I'm never going to have anybody peeing in my yard or around my garden. I have a puppy but I have a couple acres of woods next to my house so that's where she goes.

Kimmie
 
me either yuk sounds disgusting and think of the comments instead of fine smelling flowers a smell of pee yuk not my idea of a gentle scented garden,
 
I know. If it's enough to scare away foxes I would think that it's enough to smell everything up. It may be a good idea in theory, but I don't think I'll ever have to go that far.

Kimmie
 
KimmiesGuineas said:
Umm..
1. I don't know how true that is.
2. I don't think that she wants to have somebody peeing around her garden. I think that she meant how does she enforce the pen enough to keep them out.

Kimmie
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Anything is worth a try I have just stopped laughing and the husband well he is watching telly. I am going to ask him to get all his mates round after a night out ;D only joking It would smell awful
 
I don't think that's worth a try. It may work fabulously, but I think that I'll just convert a room in the house to piggies before I have people peeing in my garden. Yes, it would be difficult as I need every room I have, but I am adament that my garden is not for peeing.

Kimmie
 
On the subject of tiger poo, I got some from my garden centre - was it called Roar? -as a cat deterrent.
 
Kimmie
I only have a small house and every bedroom had someone in there. I do not have a spare room downstairs kitchen and a tiny living room. During the winter my 3 piggies were in the house. I just had enough room to put thier cages in the living room. I have now put them into the shed and soon they will go into a VERY secure hutch outside under my kitchen window. I do have two rescue piggies in the house at the moment one of which is pregnant fit to burst. The other is pregnant but not as far gone they are in the house getting used to human contact and also to be keep a close eye on them.
I was joking about getting my husband and his friend to wee in the garden. I know my pets are as safe as they can be. and when outside in thiers runs someone is always out there with them.
 
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