Trouble with Foxes

Does anyone know anything that will deter foxes. I’m having a lot of trouble lately with them in my garden spooking my birds.
They piss and crap over everything at night, it bloody stinks.
They’re in my garden at all times of the day not just in the evening, they’re climbing skills are unreal they get over fences as if they wernt there. And they’re always running over the top of the loft.
I live in a built up closed in area in a mid terraced house and they run across everyone’s sheds all the time, I’ve got wire over the back of my sheds but as I said they are such skillfull climbers.
I have to be out there 100% of the time while the birds are out.
I was feeding my team of latebreds last night and I heard my wife screaming and running round the garden with a frying pan, the Fox was in the garden trying to get the kids Guinea pig, I ran out to scare it, and it dropped a plump chicken breast from its mouth, which I picked up and threw away, it wasn’t dustbin day, so obviously someone’s feeding them.
Bugger me, 10 minutes later it was back in the garden looking for the bloody chicken breast.

put some trellis on top the lofts around the perimeter or put a baton on each corner with a vertical overhang of about 1 metre above roof height and put up some chicken wire ....they also do not like the smell of human p1$$ ...a few years ago i did a job for a guy in cornwall who kept alot of chickens and ducks and he had buckets dotted about around the outside of a barn which was open fronted and he had ducks sitting on the floor ,i thought mr fox was sure to get them but they were fine due to the p1$$ sorry to hear yer avin problems steve ,i would do the both m8 but the neighbours may not like the latter idea atb

Bloody hell. Sounds like you got a real plague of them pal. Can the local authority not use pest control or is it charged to you?

I'd be tempted to get a suitable dog hard enough to live outside with free run of the garden, something like a rough coated lurcher with a bit of bull terrier or bedlington cross in it. As long as it came from a line of outside living working dogs and you had a kennel up off the cold ground and insulated, with the bed up on legs off the base of the kennel. A two way cat flap on it stop the wind and damp getting straight in.

Sounds like there's so many that even if you could shoot them theyre still going to turn up. Thing is a dog is long term committment.

i smell foxes fairy often around my loft, but never had much trouble with them ......i have wire secondary doors behind my main doors which are open all day for fresh air, ive often seen a fox walk along the front on the loft past the wire doors, stop for a minute and glance in, then carry on........didnt seem to bother the pigeons at all, maybe they were used to seeing them pass bye .....

ive seen foxes around for years, but just made sure they couldnt get into the loft ....not sure how i would deal with them if they were a problem though .

i havnt let my pigeons out for years since i last raced, so cats and foxes havn`t been a problem, in fact i always thought it would be a deterrent to keep rats away .

good luck boosey , i hope you get it sorted .

Small bowls of white vinegar. Move often.
Or go here.
https://upgardener.co.uk/best-fox-deterrents/

Make a fox trap Steve a long box with a sliding door at one end trap them then drowned them in the bath or take them somewhere far away put an electric fence around your garden like farmers use or get some one with a gun

Well known fact, foxes now are more venturesome because of shortage of their natural food (mainly rabbits).

The site Hal gave gives many options for controlling the fox entering your property, as does several others.

However, the only safe one is a dead one.

Many none animal keepers are actualy feeding the urban fox.

Personally I like the fox.

Had the odd visit but there was no way it could get anywhere near entering the pigeon loft because the entrance for the pgeons was made just big enough for the pigeons to go in and out at will, and nothing bigger.

Regards.

Canadian solution.
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We had foxes when we first got the garden we have now and they are probably still about no doubt,  as we have a railway line right next to us and they roam up and down it . Anyway since we got the dogs we don't get them in our garden anymore . We have 2 cats   one next doors garden and one a few gardens up . So far not touched the birds , thank God... I know when we had them in our old allotment someone put anti freeze in cat food and it lasted minutes...how horrible was that but it goes on

peel bros wrote:

We had foxes when we first got the garden we have now and they are probably still about no doubt,  as we have a railway line right next to us and they roam up and down it . Anyway since we got the dogs we don't get them in our garden anymore . We have 2 cats   one next doors garden and one a few gardens up . So far not touched the birds , thank God... I know when we had them in our old allotment someone put anti freeze in cat food and it lasted minutes...how horrible was that but it goes on

The Rome thing Ray I suggest, when you have a problem/issue etc anti freeze. People would be surprised at times how many foxes actually live in the suburbs type of thing. Scroungers of the highest order when looking for a feed for the family . Possums are my big bug bare here thou I'm just like rats are to normal folk .  

Not ony foxes.

Had sparrowhawk twice in last few days, couple of feet from window both front and back gardens,

RSPB mouthing off in the papers about the loss of many of our song birds due to shortage of food.

Never mention that we have more raptors now than ever before many bred and released by them.

Just what do the idiots think the raptors live on ?.

The only reason they are in peoples back garden feeding stations is because they have killed all their normal prey.

The RSPB is a club for the Old Boys very similar to the RPRA.

Regards.

I couldn't personally hurt them myself but I can understand why people do if they are having constant trouble

It is not nice to kill anything for unreasonable reasons, it is the interpretation of unreasonable that is the problem and we do tend to look an different animals in different ways.

Cannot think of one animal that I would like not have been created, the only thing that upsets nature is MAN.

Regards.

peel bros wrote:

I couldn't personally hurt them myself but I can understand why people do if they are having constant trouble

Killing is simply part of human nature I suggest Ray for many thou they live in a fairy land fantasy type state I'm & because of it they consider killing has no place for what ever reason, unfortunately.

Well I am a softie at heart

Well with chicken huts you pee on the corners regularly. Mind that might add a stink too lol.
I would invest a few quiddies on an electric fence. £70 - £80 or so.
Will work. Wire, or mav be mesh one would be best.

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Never heard of the peeing business, think my wife would not have approved.

Regards.

Never heard of the peeing business, think my wife would not have approved.

Regards.

I have actually have heard of this , not sure if it works though

The Electric fence will work though. 3-4 bags of feed!
Now is the time of the Fox's howling, for a mate. Real noisy lot at that.

Daz wrote:

The Electric fence will  work though. 3-4 bags of feed!
Now is the time of the Fox's howling, for a mate. Real noisy lot at that.

i hear foxes regularly howling / barking, behind my house is large woodland, always been foxes there as long as i can remember, used to come in the garden with the babies before i built a wall round , they cant get in now, but i still hear them and see them in the street from time to time ......

Lots where are but I have never them , but then again not sure what they sound like

MISTY wrote:

Never heard of the peeing business, think my wife would not have approved.

Regards.

Don't have to tell them every thing etc Misty I suggest      What goes on behind the pigeon loft at times, just stays behind the pigeon loft as such       . & take care.

Knackered wrote:

MISTY wrote:

Never heard of the peeing business, think my wife would not have approved.

Regards.

Don't have to tell them every thing etc Misty I suggest      What goes on behind the pigeon loft at times, just stays behind the pigeon loft as such       . & take care.

Haha

Do not know about behind pigeons lofts Knackered, but could right a book about what went on behind the air raid shelters during the war.

Think make hay whilst the sun shines.

Regards.