Are my pigeons safe from foxes and cats

[Iqbal]

Hi,

 

I am brand new to the pigeon world and I've just bough two 6-8 weeks old beautiful white logans.

 

I do not have a big loft, only something I built myself 4ft wide X 2ft high X 2ft depth. It has a wire mesh 3/4 across the front. (looks more like a rabbit hutch).

It is placed on the decking in my rear garden

 

On the first night I bought my birds I saw a fox near the hutch, I immediately turned the hutch so the wire mesh was against the wall.

 

I am building a table which is 3ft 5inches high.

 

Now on to my worry and question to all you pigeon experts out there:

Can foxes break their way through wire mesh?

 

Can foxes become immune to the utra sonic fox deterrents

 

Any advice would greatly be appreciated.

 

Thanks

Mo

 

 

[Guest shadow]

Yes fox's can break through wire mesh if it flimsy you need to use a thick gauge mesh to keep them out' as far as I know they do not become immune to the sonic deterents unless the unit malfunctions

[birdman55678]

I would say the wire will hold them out.  My worry would be if the wire is connected good to the hutch.  If the fox starts digging at the wire it should hold but could be ripped from the hutch and that would be the end of the doos.  Good luck.  Ed

[gangster]

it wants raising off the ground as well..............

[birdman55678]

it wants raising off the ground as well..............

 

Agreed, I would get it as far off the ground as you can.  Ed

[stevebelbin]

If you search the net for articles on Keith Mott (Think on the British Homing World site), you may be able to contact him. He has his birds in rabbit hutch style lofts due to him having PigeonFanciers lung, so he would be an ideal person to talk to.

[Wiley]

it say it would have to be a very strong wire mesh that your using couldnt be two flimpsey, A fox got into my own rabbit hutch two years ago and took a pet rabbit of ours, there clever things make sure your latch to the doors are supported well and cannot be opened to easily as this is what happened to my rabbit the latch would spin round to easily the fox must have nudged it and it was good night vienna

[Peckedhen]

A fox will easily jump onto a 3' 5" table!! Is there any way you could attach the hutch high up on your house wall? My dovecote is about 8' off the ground! :-/  I  have to use ladders to reach the birds! :

[Wiley]

a fox can easily climb or jump up any wall i have seen them ontop of pigeon sheds and brick garages that stand well up to 9 feet high

[birdman55678]

A good hound will cure the fox problem but then you may have a hound problem with the neighbors..  LOL.  Ed

[Iqbal]

Thank you all very much for your suggestions. They are all very useful.

I have just received my sonic pest repeller.  I will sit and watch when a fox comes into the garden and see its response to the sonic repeller.

 

Cheers

Mo

[THE FIFER]

get one of the scare crow water deterents they are the best for cats foxes or anything that would get a fright if soked with a blast of water from a hose, u getb them at boddy and ridewood great things.

[Guest]

get yourself a fell or jack russel

[Guest TAMMY_1]

get one of the scare crow water deterents they are the best for cats foxes or anything that would get a fright if soked with a blast of water from a hose, u getb them at boddy and ridewood great things.

 

AT £55 AN EXPENSIVE WAY TO SQUIRT WATER, I HAVE A GREAT CAT DETERENT AND THE SCORE IS ONE NIL TO US

[dandydoo]

Does the deterent fuelled by green or pig energy ?

[edthekid]

try a outdoor light with a motion sensor get em for a tena.....put it on your loft

[westy]

wee by where you loft is.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Does the deterent fuelled by green or pig energy ?

 

pig energy

[jimmy white]

looking at your other posts about homing them and now looking at this post , i think this is why the birds seemed unsettled and possibly how you lost them trying to home them , maybe better with a larger loft with 2 or 3 pairs