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Here are a couple of good threads on electric fencing by @Howard E. Very good information and explains a lot. Again, good luck... https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/electric-fence-basics.1398976/ https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/a-treatise-on-electric-fencing.1117877/

I wish I could afford to enclose everything with hardware cloth. With the electric wires you probably won't need it. I leave my pop doors open on my coops 24/7/365. I have a quite powerful fence charger. I only have chicken wire around the outside perimeter of my pens. My electric wires are...

Had a couple of habitual escapees, Houdini1 and Houdini2. They escaped one too many times.

For your ground rod, it works best if you can put it in a drip line where the ground tends to be more moist. Get a fence charger that will put out at least 7000 volts, around a 1+ joule charger. If it puts out much less the predators will take a little shock to get to a bird. You want the...

Most of the time a fox will lurk looking for an opportunity. Since it's out during the day it most likely has young to feed. It will be back whether you see it or not and also most likely when you least expect it. Good luck...