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I would just give the foxes something else to eat besides chicken! This was at our previous house in BC and BEFORE we had chickens.

For that small of a cage clear plastic shower curtains should be fine. I went to Harbor Freight and bought a grommet kit which easily enables me to put grommets where I want to attach the curtain to the cage frame and to customize the size of the curtains used.

I put some "chicken wire" under the foundation, maybe a foot inside and 2 feet outside. This wire is too flimsy for long term protection. I had rats tunneling under and into the run. Very smart buggers, couldn't trap them so I had to resort to a pest control company with baited traps outside...

We have used equal amounts of peat moss and sand with some sifted wood ash added. No issues we are aware of and the girls seem to like it!

We let our 13 girls out for a supervised free ranging experience on a daily basis. Every afternoon they get out for about 2 hrs from their luxurious 10'x24' fully protected run. We try and have one of us outside with them as they move around the treed property. Since March of '17 we have lost...

Our girls get a mixture of peat moss, sand, and wood ash placed in a small plastic swimming pool. Not sure where I got the "recipe" for this mixture but everybody seems happy.

Our one mistake when building our coop and run was just putting an apron of chicken wire under paver foundation to prevent digging under. First, the chicken wire is too flimsy and is easily broken. Our invasive problem was rats. They managed to tunnel and find small places where the 1/2"...

Might be a concept you are not familiar with. The chicken's poop is picked up individually, and the number of pick ups depends on how many chickens there are. One does not have to pick up the ENTIRE run; surface, only where there is a poop. For, hopefully the last time, it takes literally 2...

Never having to clean your run sounds to me that ALL the poop has remained there? What happens to the poop? Magically disappears? 2 minutes every day or two with a slotted shovel and the poop is removed from the run, forever.

We just buy sand at a local nursery. Since our run is covered, the sun only hits the sand in some areas depending on time of year, also, no rain in the run, further shielded by the shower curtains in the winter. Can't imagine an easier set up to clean and the girls are able to dig some holes...

We chose to have sand in both the coop and run. This is very easy to pick up the poop with a little slotted shovel. In the coop, poop boards under the roosting "rails" takes literally 2 minutes to scrape the poop into a 2lb coffee can. We can't imagine using wood chips as they seem difficult...

We are envious! Waiting a bit longer as we want to add a couple(3) new chicks to our flock. Fun having little ones but got to be careful not to fall victim to "chicken math"!

Interesting how different the opinions are. We have never used wood for anything except pine shavings in the nest boxes. Our sand run has suited us to a "T". Can't imagine NOT picking up the chicken poop on a daily basis. With 14 chickens it takes literally 2 minutes to pick up poop in a...

We, too, have been using sand since March of '17 with no negative problems. We occasionally have to add a wheelbarrow load of new sand to fill in some "dust" bathing holes. Our run is covered so the sand never gets wet. Does your sand get wet??

I have bought mealworms from rainbowmealworms.com and from pnwmealworms.com One is based in California and the other in Oregon. No problems and reliable. I absolutely refuse to buy any product from China to feed to any living thing!

A quarter sized hole is WAY to big, as with most things, compromise is good. Try 3/8"!!

Here are the nest boxes I built for the girls. We have 14 and at "peak" laying I probably could have used another box, but now that they are getting older, 3 is fine. Note the poop boards, mandatory IMO. We use sand in both the coop and run and it has worked wonderfully. Easy to clean...

We have used the Brinsea Chicken Safe since May of 2017 and have not had any problems at all. Battery powered, easily programmable, and simple to install. Highly recommended.

No, but plexiglass is readily available at Home Depot.