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Post by bogmyrtle on Feb 4, 2009 9:34:50 GMT 1
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Post by emseypop on Feb 4, 2009 17:42:39 GMT 1
I definatly think both sets of tracks were cats, they were very similar and the fox tracks look quite different in comparison. The other track we definatly a mouse or a hedgehog, or a RAT, they seem to have a run, from Brians and christines compost bin, under the HH, then there's a hole under then fence into the other christines Garden. Not sure what to do, block up holes, buy traps, I always clean up all the hens food and keep it locked up. i dont want to put poison down.  |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Feb 4, 2009 18:58:45 GMT 1
If they are in the compost bin they are there for warmth probably. Try blocking up the holes. If you clean up the hens food and keep it locked up there is probably little else you can do - at the end of the day they are cold and hungry. If your neighbours feed the birds, perhaps they are leaving food out overnight and they are attracted to that?
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Post by emseypop on Feb 5, 2009 8:30:40 GMT 1
If they are in the compost bin they are there for warmth probably. Try blocking up the holes. If you clean up the hens food and keep it locked up there is probably little else you can do - at the end of the day they are cold and hungry. If your neighbours feed the birds, perhaps they are leaving food out overnight and they are attracted to that? The one side feed the birds, but they put all the food on the garage roof. We spotted a fox, walking down the grove at 5.30 this morning. |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Feb 5, 2009 11:53:03 GMT 1
If they are in the compost bin they are there for warmth probably. Try blocking up the holes. If you clean up the hens food and keep it locked up there is probably little else you can do - at the end of the day they are cold and hungry. If your neighbours feed the birds, perhaps they are leaving food out overnight and they are attracted to that? The one side feed the birds, but they put all the food on the garage roof. We spotted a fox, walking down the grove at 5.30 this morning. Lovely, I do love foxes. Walking in the snow on Tuesday to the main road, I was following some fox tracks. Foxes leave a very pungent smell as well, I can always tell if ours has been around - particularly when the bins are out! |
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Post by emseypop on Feb 6, 2009 13:58:50 GMT 1
I was looking out of the window at 5.30 this morning, no sign of foxy tho  |
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Post by Sleepy on Feb 6, 2009 14:00:50 GMT 1
I was looking out of the window at 5.30 this morning, no sign of foxy tho I saw a fox crossing my lawn late last night. |
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Post by maggyd on Feb 6, 2009 16:47:28 GMT 1
Em you will have to get huby to sprinkle tinkle round the edge of the garden that is supposed to keep the foxes away.  |
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Post by emseypop on Feb 7, 2009 10:03:38 GMT 1
 He's got enough bad habbits already!
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Post by maggyd on Feb 7, 2009 14:55:18 GMT 1
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Post by bogmyrtle on Mar 31, 2009 10:15:31 GMT 1
Hubby reminded me about my friend Sarah the other week, and I still haven't posted the story! She used to cycle to & from work along the canal - the one that runs by our office through Sparkbrook (Balti area). One night she came across a chicken, alive, but stumbling and falling. She tucked it under her arm and cycled home. Her partner's brother keeps chickens so they sat it in the car and off they went. They put it in the garden, one step forwards one backwards, fall over. It had escaped from around here somewhere and was a battery chicken (possibly going for halal?). Anyway, when darkness started to fall, the other hens went in, this one stayed where it was - fox fodder! He put it in the hen house out of harms way. The next morning, the poor thing was gasping for a drink, it didn't know it could go over to where the water was and help itself! Anyway, gradually, she did build her strength up and realised she could wander and was free! A happy ending. (Would have loved to seen people's faces though with Sarah on her bike and a chicken tucked under her arm  ) |
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Post by emseypop on Mar 31, 2009 10:31:02 GMT 1
What a great story! There are some 'proper' black country folk who run the hardware shop over the road, and when i told them about my hens, she told me where I could get some 'right away' (I was on the BHWT waiting list) £1.50 per hen! that was Sparkbrook. That hen made a bid for freedom, the bird had some pluck |
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He's got enough bad habbits already!