When I first moved to Tn, my father hatched around 75 babies for me and I raised them from day old, as they got older I started letting them out of the coop and letting them free range. It worked out good for the first year, but then a couple of the neighbors dogs came in and cleaned me out in 5 minutes. I cried like a baby and swore I would never do it again. Here I am 10 years later and I am starting all over again. This time I am putting them in runs, no free ranging on my farm anymore, and hopefully with them being in the runs attached to the coops I won't have to worry about Chicken snakes getting my eggs.
But I charge her. 
Can buy a few bags of chick feed at least lol.
I let all the chickens out of there coop, feed and watered them. Then went back in and grabbed a cup of coffee. Was going to come in here and thought well it's nice out this morning I go have this cup of coffee on the deck and look at everybody. WELL, I walked outside and noticed in the back , the new area, that a leghorn was out running around. She flew the coop. And noticed all my other birds were acting really weird. I thought they had spotted another snake and was reacting to it. So I came back in and put my flip flops on and started walking down there to put the leghorn back in and guess what I see roaming my fence line!!!! A big Red Fox!!! 
So I grabbed my trusty 2x2 and started running down there, it seen me and took off in the woods. DAM thing!! I have never seen a fox here in the 13 years I had this lot. Freakin!!! Haven't seen it since. But now I'm worried. Those are all my new birds. 
I talked with an old timer who lost 4 roos to a fox, he said to put a small radio out there and have it playing when your not around. Foxes won't come any where near a human. And with the radio playing they think people are talking and around and won't come near the chickens. So I need to go get a cheap one. That's all I need to to have a fox eat my new, expensive birds. I might have to go searching for the den if need be. Now every time I walk out there I'm always looking back there to see if it's around. UUMMM!! At least for that time I know the fence did it's job. One good thing I guess. They can't get then at night, the big clean door is to high off the ground for the fox to jumup and then tear the chicken wire. So I'm guessing. I hope any way.
