"you can buy coyote or bobcat urine at a sportsman's store. They sell it for hunting purposes but it keeps away other predators."
Pretty much all wildlife are attracted to any urine--including human urine. The salt content attracts rodents and hooved animals. Predators are not intimidated by the smell of other predator urine, even if from a more aggressive or larger predator. I can trap foxes with both coyote and bobcat urine as an attractant. Human hair may help temporarily, but I doubt it. The fox is around your coop, you go around your coop, your odor has permeated the area and the fox has acclimatized to it.
If you can't trap, then a dog would be a good bet, but the dog needs to be out around the coop all the time. Most adult red fox will not go into a box trap (I don't call them a live trap as a proper foothold trap is also a live trap that will allow the release of an undamaged animal if desired). Juvenile red fox can be caught in a box trap, as can gray foxes.
Fox proof your coop and chicken yard. If they free range and a fox is hunting the area in the daylight, you will loose birds. While they tend to primarily hunt at night, daytime hunting is not uncommon. Remember that all foxes are good diggers. Gray fox are great climbers. Keep that in mind in predator proofing the bird's home.
Pretty much all wildlife are attracted to any urine--including human urine. The salt content attracts rodents and hooved animals. Predators are not intimidated by the smell of other predator urine, even if from a more aggressive or larger predator. I can trap foxes with both coyote and bobcat urine as an attractant. Human hair may help temporarily, but I doubt it. The fox is around your coop, you go around your coop, your odor has permeated the area and the fox has acclimatized to it.
If you can't trap, then a dog would be a good bet, but the dog needs to be out around the coop all the time. Most adult red fox will not go into a box trap (I don't call them a live trap as a proper foothold trap is also a live trap that will allow the release of an undamaged animal if desired). Juvenile red fox can be caught in a box trap, as can gray foxes.
Fox proof your coop and chicken yard. If they free range and a fox is hunting the area in the daylight, you will loose birds. While they tend to primarily hunt at night, daytime hunting is not uncommon. Remember that all foxes are good diggers. Gray fox are great climbers. Keep that in mind in predator proofing the bird's home.
