Lost enough *insert appropriate curse* birds.

[JJSS89]

Is your run pretty weak? Foxes are very lightweight animals and something that is crushing any decent run is unlikely a fox. Maybe coyote or dog.

Catching a fox or coyote with dead meat is a low-success attempt at trapping when there is live meat nearby. Use it's desire to get into the cage as your advantage. Provide an opening into the run through the trap.

 

[Pent]

She was only in a temporary run, and yes it was pretty flimsy. I did place the trap like it could be an entrance to the coop, in underneath.

 

[JJSS89]

Yeah I didn't mean to knock on you, just wanted to know based on the predator collapsing it. Keep us posted and don't be surprised if you have a bird of prey

 

[Pent]

Oh, no offence taken, no worries. I was kicking myself for using that run. I even had a cage in the shed, but I wanted the other hens to be able to see her and get used to her.

Bird of prey actually makes a lot of sense, theres a meat farm nearby, and the guy dumps all the "scraps" Into a big pit, attracting bald eagles, hawks, crows by the dozens, and I even saw a raven once.

Granted it also brings in the land predators, so its hard to say. Its the smell that made me think fox, not quite skunky but strong.

I just got a little bunny, too, she's pretty secure out there in an outdoorized ferret nation cage, but I don't want this predator poking around my little Pippi Brandybuck...