Warm boot recommendations please

[Olly]

I wouldn't rely on it for total fox protection - what it does is deter the fox from using your garden. They usually follow quite well-established paths, and it will put them off. Of course, that doesn't mean they won't deviate from those paths in the hope of a nice dinner, but it gets them out of the habit of using your garden.

 

I move mine around every couple of weeks so it covers a slightly different area, but as I said, I wouldn't rely on it and I don't let my girls free-range without me being there. I believe there are people on here who have dogs, and who say they are not affected, but you'd need to check that.

 

I am sure I paid under £40 fo mine but I see it's £44.95 on Primrose. I do recommend it, despite what I've said above.

[Lovemychooks]

Thanks for the info. Olly, i'll check that out at the weekend.

 

Westie, we have got a walk in run and was going to put the Foxwatch near that, although the garden centre sells lion poo so I might get some of that too !!

 

Skye, I live in Cobham.

[Christian]

Only just caught up with this!

 

 

I am so sorry to hear your sad news. Sending big hugs.

 

C x x x

[Lovemychooks]

Thanks for your replies everyone, appreciate it.

 

Christian, I LOVE your new chickens !

[theherd123]

Oh no im so sorry to hear your bad news

[Shirl]

Since my fox visit I've bought a foxwatch but I don't think it'll be effective in my garden. With only a 100 degree angle covered there is too much unvovered area. I too have dogs so between having to avoid the chickens area and the dogs area it's hard to know where to point it. So far it's pointed at the area I think Mr Fox is entering.

[Rona]

.... so between having to avoid the chickens area and the dogs area it's hard to know where to point it. So far it's pointed at the area I think Mr Fox is entering.

I am planning to get a foxwatch once I have finished building the chicken run but I was going to target the chicken area rather than avoidiing it. I thought the foxwatch didn't affect chickens so I thought that if I directed it at the run area it would set up a sort of protection zone around them.

 

Hope someone can come along and put me straight

[Olly]

The only thing is, if it points directly at the chickens then every time they move around they will set it off, good protection but the batteries will run down very fast! If you have it on a mains lead then that wouldn't matter so much.

 

I have mine behind the Eglus, pointed at the area that I guess Inspector Fox would have to cross to get to them. Of course, he could easily sneak around the front and avoid it, but I believe that since I've had it, he has learned to avoid my garden.

 

I move it from time to time so it points in a different direction or covers a slightly different area. I don't know for sure if he has gone, but there are no paw-prints on the Eglu, no rips in the shower-curtain I use to cover it, and no nasty smells any more.

[Shirl]

According to the website the advantage that Foxwatch has over other systems is that it isn't a permanent noise but triggered by the fox. If it's on all the time it is suggested by Foxwatch that it isn't as effective because that's what the cheaper alternatives do. I think this is also the problem of having it triggered by dogs regularly. I have mine at one of the raer corners of the cube pointed toward the area I think the fox enters the garden but with only a 100 degree angle it's quite hard to cover a wide enough area.