Something seems to have systematically dug up the raspberry canes I planted!

[rabbit]

I almost looks like a person has done it as the canes and roots are out of their holes on on their sides. Its def not a person as it;s my back garden. I'll take a picture in a tic.

Wildlife we have in the garden: a lot of wood pidgeons, some squirrels, foxes and deer.

Are any of these likely culprits?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Did you plant with chicken pellets in the planting holes? If so, I bet it's foxes.

[rabbit]

Did you plant with chicken pellets in the planting holes? If so, I bet it's foxes.

Yes I did! Those mangey bustards! So I assume they'll have at everything I put the chicken pellets on this year then?

[Two_Sheds]

Raspberries don't need feeding, do they?

[rabbit]

Raspberries don't need feeding, do they?

To be honest I'm not sure but RHS said "In early March apply slow-release general fertiliser, fish, blood and bone for example". Raspberry / Royal Horticultural Society

So I thought it'd do no harm... oh well. I didnt even get time to put them back in before it got dark but I'm not sure how theyve been out as I didnt get home before dark all week last week.

[Feral007]

I am expecting our wombat to have a look at some of our fruit forest this winter. He's prone to pulling things out having a nibble of the leaves and roots and then chucking them down as he doesn't like them. Wouldn't mind so much if he put them back if he didn't like them, but no such luck.

[Two_Sheds]

RHS said "In early March apply slow-release general fertiliser, fish, blood and bone for example".

OK.
Chicken pellets aren't general though, they are nitrogen-rich. Nitrogen is good for green leafy veg, but you need potash (eg. comfrey) for fruiting plants