Hi all
I have finally been beaten by a fox.
We have been living on our smallholding for four years now, and even though we have had the odd loses to a Fox its never been this bad.
We have slowly but surely lost all our ducks and hens and with our last three geese, even one of those got attacked yesterday.
I have bought the geese into the barn, mostly for the shocked and injured one to hopefully recover with her mates.
We have a 1/2 acre Fruit Orchard and all our birds have been happily free ranging in there for the last four years without too much danger, but this latest fox is really cunning and even after quite abit of sitting out with the gun, hubby hasn't managed to kill it.
We have electrified chicken netting all around the perimeter but obviously only about 4 feet high so no trouble for Mr fox to jump over.
Do I just give up on the free-ranging idealistic life for my birds and get a miserable run made up for them?
Such a shame.
Have any of you out there successfully deterred a fox from a large area?.
Not sure what to do now really?.
Sorry for the rant, just sad that the sigh of free ranging birds in my orchard is probably a thing of the past now.