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Could you make it with extendable wheels? Lower the wheels when it needs to move, pull them up and secure the netting with tent pegs when it is stationary.

I thought I could frame the netting on the ground and then have it mounted on hinges, so it could be hinged up and then the enclosure could be dragged but I’m not sure I actually trust this design at all.
Reading online a fox can burrow 3-6 metres overnight and a badger can burrow 3 times as much as a fox which makes horizontal fencing a pretty useless defence mechanism.

We have a 65kg Rottweiler to pee in the garden and big ducks, no foxes come in

Dave!

Radar/thermal camera, motorised paint/pellet gun, kill zones - probably run it off a raspberry pi

Mito Man wrote: Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:51 pm Reading online a fox can burrow 3-6 metres overnight and a badger can burrow 3 times as much as a fox which makes horizontal fencing a pretty useless defence mechanism.

Have you not read/seen Fantastic Mr. Fox?

Saw you mention the pheasants in the duck poo thread Mito, any update on how are they doing?

I spent ages trying to put up a photo but for some reason it’s corrupted or something. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Anyway… Ended up with 4 females and 1 male. The male was born with a bent foot and I tried to fix it with a splint when it was young but it didn’t work. It’s actually bent from the hip it seems so now he’s getting bullied by the females and lives alone. We’ve debated having him put down but he does the happy wing flap and seems happy on his own but long term don’t know what to do.
The females recently had a personality change and have become quite wild. It’s odd, from behind the fence they’ll happily be laying down a few inches away but go inside their enclosure to put food/water and they act suicidal. So might be time to let them go soon. They’re still growing out their main feathers so I think once that’s done the ungrateful shits can experience the real world.
Oh they’re also kinda odd looking, their features curl upwards.