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[legend21]

Hi All, OH just installed (well perhaps installed too strong a term) our two fox watch, one in our potato garden (fenced off from girls) and one outside their area facing down the drive.

 

Problem is:- does this seem right, in potato garden means it goes off if anyone is near the girls which seems good idea, intend to always have it on when they are free ranging and we are not with them

other in drive as assuming the fox will stroll up the drive at night time noise will scare him off and he wont come back.

 

No foxes up to this point

 

Any suggestions as to where they are best put.

 

thank you

Jackie

[FiggyPudding]

I have 2 foxwatches & I put them back to back, thinking that there is an angle of 200o covered there. Actually I went to Lydia's house & that's house she did it.

 

My 4 are fenced in with a netting from Knowles & I place it just outside, thinking that if a fox comes in, he/she will trigger off the noise.

 

That any help ?

 

(is this the thread you are waiting for an answer on ?)

[eggregiousness]

I've been looking at these too Jackie. I have no experience to share with you as I don't have any chickens yet (soon )! From what I've picked up you have to consider the angles covered. If I remember correctly each sensor covers a reasoanble distance in an arc of 100 degrees around itself. In theory therefore you would need 4 for 360 degree coverage. I know most people manage with a couple and occasionally move them around so the foxes don't learn how to approach the hens without triggering the sensors. My concern is that if one is placed with the chicken run itself within the sensor arc it would be continually being triggered by the hens themselves. Also, there are so many cats round here they would be continually setting it off too. In this situation would the foxes learn to ignore the sound becaus they hear it so often? I don't know. Sorry I'm not much help!

[Redwing]

The fox watch needs to be facing away from the hens and any other high activity area of the garden, it only covers an angle of 100 degrees or so and is therefore best placed where a fox is most likely to enter the garden (for example in my case it would be the low fence leading to a field at the back of the house) you can move them as foxes may get to know where the coverage is

 

Things that work as platforms are prime areas to aim your foxwatch at too for example shed or garage roofs if they adjoin neighbouring properties can be used by a fox for access to your garden

[Plum]

Hello Don't know anything about foxwatch but am interested to see the replies.

[Egluntyne]

Have a look **here**.

 

There are three pages of info about the Foxwatch.

[legend21]

thanks for your advice, sounds like I need to move the one in the potato patch, I had thought if the chickens set it off then the fox would come nowhere near. We have a flat roof shed in the chicken area so I suppose the fox could lie on that but my husband refused to believe that the fox can climb a 6ft wooden fence, even though I have read on the forum he can do this easily. I will persuade him tonight to move the one in the potato patch to somewhere that includes the shed roof. It would be awful if we got it wrong.

 

thanks again and Eglutine I will read the thread you sent.

 

Jackie

[gazzagerkin]

are these ok for use with our 4 cats?

[Egluntyne]

Yes....their hearing is on different wavelengths so they should be unaffected.

[Olly]

Yes, my cat is not bothered at all by the Foxwatch.

 

Unfortunately a lot of people think that foxes can't climb fences ... until they see it happen. If a cat can get up there, so can a fox and I've seen it frequently, it's not just the occasional agile fox that does it.

[TheHunter]

Sorry if this sounds silly but can you hear the foxwatch or are they ultrasonic. Just wondered if it would upset nieghbours.

 

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[quickcluck]

Is silent for us humans!!