Nite guard substitute? Predator deterrents?

[cdnley]

Hello

Due to the fox problem here I have to take more measures to keep them away. I will try to trap them as well as build a better duck house but I foresee this being an ongoing issue. I would like to try other ideas to keep them away from the pond area completely. I have read talk radio can work but also the nite guard (flashing red led) can be successful. I have a very large area and according to the nite guard website optimal coverage for my area would be a multiple posts with 4 night guards on each post. I think that would put me around 12 lights. Well at $20 a light that would add up to a lot of money very quickly. Not that my future ducks/geese aren't worth it, I just don't have money like that to spend. So I was looking at solar powered flashing led bicycle lights. They are about $5 each. I could mount them to a post as well.

What do you think? Anyone else try this? Any other tricks anyone else has used?

Thanks!

 

[ducksinarow]

This may be a bit unusual but I put my duck house in my dog's pen. I bring my dog inside in the morning then I let the ducks out. At dusk I put the ducks in their house and then put the dog (border collie) back in her pen to protect them.

 

[chikky]

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I haven't tried the nite gard, but a much less expensive version would be to get a waterproof container (butter bowl?) and drill 2 holes in it and mount hi-intensity red leds into it and seal them with some non-corrosive caulking or a grommet. With a couple of resistors and 9V batteries, you'd be all set. A switch could probably be wired into it to be able to turn it on/off from the outside instead of having to connect the battery each day (or just let it on all the time). It wouldn't be solar, but would be really cheap. (I know enough about electronics to be dangerous, haha). If this is anything you're interested in and would like assistance, pm me.

We covered the entire pen (20X10X6 chain link) in hardware cloth, leaving enough on the ground to protrude out into the yard some, as well as other measures. The coons try and give up.

 

[pascopol]

There is only one way, actually two ways to deal with the fox.

Ask oldtimers, they will tell you.