Smart Feeder - Light sensor values

[smarty456]

Hi,

A few questions,

 

1) Does any one know a good ,not expensive farm or pet shops where i can buy straw,chickens,feed,either cheap delivery or within 10 miles of CR0 postcode.?

 

2)Foxes come into my garden,one time almost got my poultry,any way to get rid of them or keep them away from my poultry?

 

3) i have had my duck for less than a year ,had been bought at 1 or 2 years of age,have any idea why it is not laying.

 

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Edited January 5, 2012 by Guest

[Mum]

1) Depends on your area (even online that will affect delivery charges)

 

2) You cannot "get rid" of urban foxes; you can protect against them in a number of ways including electric fencing (expensive, so I haven't gone that route). My WIR is on paving slabs and my girls sleep in Omlet housing. That is the best I can do for my girls.

 

3) No experience of duck keeping so no advice to offer.

[Chuck le Bon]

Hi Smarty456

Small world. I also live in Croydon CR0 and pick up, layers pellets and corn from Pets World, off the Purley Way, close to Waddon train station and the drive-in Macdonnalds.

 

We have managed to keep foxes and chickens apart for two years now, despite one neighbour feeding foxes, and our hens being free range, when I am around home. High pitched squeeking noise boxes, deter foxes. I have seen our nylon mesh fence make a fox pause, for long enough for the girls to sound the alarm. My favourite additional fox deterrant is to have a radio on outside, tuned to a voice radio station - not loud enough to be any nuisance to neighbours, but easy for foxes to hear and think twice about getting close to humans.