How to stop a fox in its tracks

Foxes eat more pheasant and partridge poults than all the other predators put together. You don’t always see what they kill and eat, but they are continually chipping away at them; now, when the hen birds are sitting, in a couple of months’ time when the poults go out, and at each and every opportunity they get for the rest of the year.

If you are a part-time keeper, it is difficult to put in the hours unless you live on site, and you shouldn’t run a snare line if you are not there to check them early, before work. Lamping and using a thermal — or