Sorry your losing your birds- i attribute the dogs and a pretty tight coop for keeping ours safe.
Traps and a shotgun work too. Once predators knows they keep returning. If you trap you need to remove them miles away or disbatch them. It is the only sure way. Electric fence won't do anything but slow them down. It is not pleasant but your losses of labor and money are also not pleasant. We once had a fox that showed up first thing in the morning waited for chickens to come off the roost. He'd would go over the electric netting like nothing was there. Yet it would deter cows and horses.
Bama what will Trot line bait do?
Traps and a shotgun work too. Once predators knows they keep returning. If you trap you need to remove them miles away or disbatch them. It is the only sure way. Electric fence won't do anything but slow them down. It is not pleasant but your losses of labor and money are also not pleasant. We once had a fox that showed up first thing in the morning waited for chickens to come off the roost. He'd would go over the electric netting like nothing was there. Yet it would deter cows and horses.
Bama what will Trot line bait do?