Re: Foxes


Christina Websell <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Even so, a few weeks ago a fox managed to kill and eat a banty in a small
pen by ripping the wire and somehow killing her and eating her through the
slats between a pallet which I had used to make the roofed run and stapled
on half inch chicken wire. What are the spaces between pallet slats? 3
inches? It seemed impossible.
3 inches is plenty large enough. It would allow a fox to get nearly it's
whole head through.
My property is not suitable for an electric fence as it's very long and
narrow and there are loads of trees and shrubs on the boundary.
I suppose you could put a line of electric tape along the top of your
boundary fence to deter the fox.

I do
actually have an electric fence unit which I used to use for my goats on
my
other paddock down the village.

You know my views on foxes. I will leave them alone if they leave me
alone.
Once a fox starts to break into my poultry runs and houses when the fields
behind my house are alive with rabbits, it needs a bit of lead in its ear
to
cure it.
I think on this matter we are like minded.


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