Fox deter?

[xxkirsty&herchickensxx]

Aparently Peeing around your garden will deter foxes and other pests, Is this true?

 

[rancher hicks]

I have to admit I'm an advocate of this deterent method. I fill a spray bottle and walk around my property and spray anything wooden. I got the Idea from a movie "Never Cry Wolf". All I can say is I've not seen any coyotes or foxes, though I've been told they are in th area. You have to repeat the spray occasionally or often. You can't smell it but I'm sure the animals can. I figure it can't hurt. No guts, no glory.

 

[sourland]

Initially it may work, but in time animals become habituated to human scents. We are about to enter the "hungry time" when foxes are feeding their kits. Electric fence is the only sure protection. (Around a well constructed pen.)

 

[rancher hicks]

While I have no experience w/ electric fencing, I also have no money to buy it. I haven't received any return information on anyone other than myself trying the human urine method so I only have my experience to go on. Your statement that it only works for so long is based on your research? Do you know anyone else who has tried it? I will confess that I've never seen either coyotes or foxes myself. At least close by. I have seen them a few miles away, and then only one of each. Or dead in the road. My birds are locked up at night also. Not that, that would stop a critter determined to get in.
Well in either case let me know what information you have on this method from research. Yours or someone elses. I've only had chickens for a year, so that's all the experience I have w/ chickens and this method. I find it interesting, I can be a scientific kind of person sometimes. Majored in it in school.

Take care.

All the Best
Rancher

 

[sourland]

Rancher Hicks, doubt that it would qualify as research, but I have seen fox standing against my fence and peering in at my birds. Yes I do "mark" areas around my coop. Maybe testosterone levels are just too low at 69 yrs old? For the past ten years or so, I have been snaring fox around a beagle club that I belong to. ( placing snares in a 50 acre area.) The least I have snared in a year is 8, and the most I have snared is 28. This is over a three month legal trapping season. Being an older guy with BPH, I need to "mark" frequently. By their tracks in the snow I see where fox walk right by my "marking" posts. Again, not RESEARCH just my observations. Habituated to humans means so accustomed that wild animals are no longer fearful. It happens more and more as we enter their domain. Just because one has not personally seen something does not necessarily mean that it is incorrect. In less populated areas, human scent may have a more dramatic impact. Here in NJ with hunters peeing all over the woods, fox are less fearful. Again this is not research just based upon the observations of an older guy who has spent as much of his life as is possible in the great outdoors.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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Oh this is too funny...I just posted on another site where someone asked about urinating around the coop to keep coyotes away. and I told them i had never seen one, but to be on the safe side and to keep all things away I urinate around my coop, because I had seen it on Dances with Wolves with kevin Costner.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Could it be that there is a difference between "marking" to keep them out of an area and "marking" to drive them out of an area they already inhabit? I haven't seen any tracks in my area but it's not forested area. Course here in NY if it gets out that we're all peeing on the trees the governor will want us to pay a tax on every tree. Well it can't hurt to keep marking so I might as well. I only mark around the edges of the clearing and usually at night. I can see it now, the cops show up at my door cuz the neighbors saw me running through the woods peeing on trees.

 

[saltdean norm]

a neighbor uses human hair and swears that it works well to deter foxes. she ties up handfuls in an old pair of tights (stockings) and hangs them by her coop. she gets the hair from a friend who is a hairdresser.
we have hundreds of foxes local to us (east sussex, uk) and see them out in the daytime at the side of the round and in gardens, quite tame really.