Fox deterrent lamps

ERG89

I am looking for a Fox deterrent lamp to buy online for the leaving the lambs out overnight. Preferably new as its something i'm finding difficult to find online.
Any links would be greatly appreciated

td5

Have a look at Rutland Electric Fencing website they do them

ganmo

http://www.donedeal.ie/sheep-for-sale/foxlights-and-fox-repellent-oil/8688745

ment to be the bees knees

Connemara Farmer

Stockholm tar has worked for me and I'd bet it's a lot cheaper than the oil.

Birdnuts

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Stockholm tar has worked for me and I'd bet it's a lot cheaper than the oil.

Tis good stuff alright. My parents used it last year to keep cats out of their vegetables by soaking a few rags in it and leaving them around the boundaries. Dogs hate the stuff too

Green farmer

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Stockholm tar has worked for me and I'd bet it's a lot cheaper than the oil.

Think I went a bit too heavy handed last spring on the tar. Lambs still had it around their necks when fully grown and being shipped out.

Connemara Farmer

Green farmer wrote: »

Think I went a bit too heavy handed last spring on the tar. Lambs still had it around their necks when fully grown and being shipped out.

Yeah similar happened here, they still had black tips on the end of the fleece in the mart. Better they got as far as the mart Maybe with factory it's an issue I don't know.

MayoAreMagic

Better with too much than not enough I would say!

I have heard that Stockholm tar works well. Has anyone ever lost a lamb even though they had the tar on them?
Does it work with crows??

Birdnuts

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

Does it work with crows??

Can't see why not - I know some farmers rub it on baled silage wrap to stop crows from landing and pecking at the plastic.

gazahayes

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

I have heard that Stockholm tar works well. Has anyone ever lost a lamb even though they had the tar on them?
Does it work with crows??

Use it here and lost one to a fox with it on realised after I had just castrated it before I let it off so easy prey

Connemara Farmer

Dad had lambs in a place where you couldn't walk 10 or 20 yards at all without coming across scat or scent. I did X number of singles and twins which I recorded and didn't lose one. That's not to say I didn't lose any that I hadn't seen and tarred mind you, the trick is getting to the lamb initially before the fox does.

Don't know about crows, 'cept how to kill them!

Birdnuts

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Don't know about crows, 'cept how to kill them!

Have you trapped many this spring Con?? Got several Hoodies so far myself in the crow trap I've down by the shore. Not as many about this season compared to recent ones - no bad thing eitheir.

Connemara Farmer

Birdnuts wrote: »

Have you trapped many this spring Con?? Got several Hoodies so far myself in the crow trap I've down by the shore. Not as many about this season compared to recent ones - no bad thing eitheir.

Honestly I haven't had the time to be either trapping or shooting anything this year. The Chinese have a curse "May you live in interesting times", well, that

Green farmer

I leave to fox alone to do what it wishes for 10 months of the year. It's only a week before lambing and for a few weeks after lambing that I take action. It's their instinct to pinch by lambs , and it's my duty to prevent them. Culling them has a clear purpose and is not done for sport or entertainment. That's it really. Up to everybody to make up their own minds.
On another note the crows are starting to interfere with me as well. Their building nexts in the rafters over the lambing pens. I walked into the shed to a ewe lambing this morning and they were perched on the heras fencing waiting for the afterbirth. I'll give them an opportunity to clear off first with a scarecrow. If this doesn't work may have to look at other methods.

christy11

Weve been using some of the flashing orage warning lights youd see at road works and that, a few of them was left there and weve been using them ever since and we havent had a lamb gone missing! Very effective tbh and the battery lasts a month just stick them up on a post about as high as your head in the middle of a fence facing to the feild