I don't think non-electric would even delay a fox 2 minutes. Maybe a few seconds. Once it determines it can touch it, it'll just climb right over. Maybe set up the moveable electric outside your non-electric net and continue work on the permanent setup? They say a big part of using electric fencing is to train the predators to learn not to try it, as it's not a real physical barrier, it's a psychological one.
I've been surprised at how little an area the Buckeyes have used, 100 ft would work here but I need room to move the coop and runs. I've set up a lot of fencing and scaled it back to less than 250 ft (some is unused, bunched up at the endpoint). Really they only use an area underneath the lilac bush with the old compost pile, some grass and dandelions in front of it, and an area underneath the overhang of maple trees - a mossy spot that their run was on and they've all dug it up to soft dirt, and they love just digging in there and re-working it. That's it. They don't even use the rest of the hedgerow which the lilac bush is at the end of and which has good cover. They definitely don't use the more open areas and as I said I use that for moving the coop and runs around in, basically circling their favorite spots.
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