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    Has any one advise on fox deterant on allotment and city garden.

    Plot100

  • #2
    Hair

    Human hair in tights nailed to posts around the plot can be a deterrant or urine. Either way, good luck.

    Andrewo
    Best wishes
    Andrewo
    Harbinger of Rhubarb tales

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    • #3
      Originally posted by andrewo
      Human hair in tights nailed to posts around the plot
      Andrewo
      Andrewo... tights filled with human hair?
      How fast does peoples hair grow in your home town?

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      • #4
        You go to the barbers and ask them, I saw it on some programme years back but urine does work.

        We're all bald in my town...my fault...I have the shears....
        Last edited by Lesley Jay; 20-04-2006, 04:48 PM.
        Best wishes
        Andrewo
        Harbinger of Rhubarb tales

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        • #5
          It was Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall on his River Cottage series. He got hair from the barbers and strung it up. Andrewo is right.
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          • #6
            Give me a call

            some people might not like this one a shot gun is the best answer.Because once they get there terriorty paths and routes they will not move on .Chaps are right urine works but then your plots PH giong alter

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            • #7
              We have a fox goes through the garden regularly but I've never noticed he does any harm. I think he just eats the slugs and voles and when he gets lucky, the pesky squirrels. Saw him a couple of days ago running about with a squirrel in his mouth. Any damage I should be looking out for?

              From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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              • #8
                Well, if you have chickens or cats, you will certainly know, foxes will have a go at them. A few years ago we had loads of cats around here (not my favourite animal) but then foxes moved in and the cats started disappearing. I don't think you should worry, they don't damage any of my crops but I know you should secure any unit with chickens in because they will kill all of them regardless of what they are going to eat. Do you think they have an ancient vendetta, did the chicken cross the road just top p*** off the fox?
                Best wishes
                Andrewo
                Harbinger of Rhubarb tales

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                • #9
                  I can't remember the name of it but there is something you can put around your boundary that is meant to deter them but the annoying thing is that after rain it needs to be put down again - the only long term solution to a fox is to kill it or put up electric fencing
                  www.poultrychat.com

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                  • #10
                    Well I found the stuff but the fun police got there first http://www.derbyfoxes.org/problems.htm
                    www.poultrychat.com

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                    • #11
                      I have loads of foxes in my London garden and the only problem I've had is them once digging in a border. Oh and pooing a couple of times (but let's face it we've all gotta go somewhere and it's hardly nuclear waste!). Some people moan about them ripping rubbish bags - well, hello, get a dustbin. They are definitely not a risk to cats. One of my cats is a complete wuss, afraid of his own shadow, yet I've seen him chase a fox away.

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                      • #12
                        I have picked up this old thread in the hope that someone has any other ideas. My main issue with the foxes that regularly visit my garden is that they are pooing on the lawn. Not nice when I have three kids who play out there, but I also have a cocker who likes nothing better than rolling in fox poo. Have you smelt that stuff???? It is the very worst smell. I don't have the time to keep bathing the daft dog!
                        Also, the foxes are causing damage. I have a lovely bird table which sits on top of four posts with trellis in between. Over the last few weeks, they have been stripping the trellis. I don't feed the birds at the end of the day and the food never lasts for more than a few minutes (on account of the pigeons sitting on the roof waiting for it), so I'm not sure why they have suddenly started doing this. My garden is enclosed by high fences and walls with trellis on them.
                        Any suggestions please? Has anyone actually tried the hair in tights suggestion?
                        Jools

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                        • #13
                          Buy an old hunting horn and frighten the b*gg#r to death?

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                          • #14
                            Jools - i share your pain. Although i have never seen them (my neighbour has), i have a family of foxes using my garden as a playground at night, and a toilet. There is fox poo everywhere, even right up by the patio next to the house. Its foul and very easy to step on (especially when i haven't mowed the grass in a while!). I don't know how to deal with them short of putting up a very high fence at the botom of my garden, which i don't want to do as i back onto a lovely field (which i suspect is where they live!). I've had soil dug up in my raised beds and they even poo on the netting i have over my veggies!
                            There's vegetable growing in the family, but I must be adopted
                            Happy Gardening!

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                            • #15
                              electric fencing probably works best, they really don't seem to like getting electrocuted. you need to put up a warning for any young scrotes that want to climb your fence, so they don't sue you ....

                              my neighbour has an 8 foot fence at the back of his house, but it's been on the fox run for years, the fox just goes straight over the top, and out at the side (if the stupid thing walked round it wouldn't have to jump at all).

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