Good plan. We have an auto door on the stall coop in the barn. No need to get out early to free the girls from the coop. And they are closed in automatically if no one is home when it gets dark. Mine is a PulletShut and opens/closes with a light sensor. Very inexpensive option.
I was going to...
I lost a Partridge Chantecler and nearly lost a Black Australorp to a fox on the same day, late April 2014. I think that is when the fox has kits and their regular prey isn't bountiful yet. The attacks were within 100' of the back of the house and maybe 15' from the back of the little barn for...