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Glad to meet you, Lila Jean, and welcome to BYC. I am so sorry for your losses and difficulties! :hugs

Your chickens need to be protected from the foxes, because they WILL come back - they've found their Popeyes drive-through right in your backyard! I am sure with your experience, once you get your birds safe and well, you will be a big contributor here. Best wishes!

Here are a couple of articles that might help you with predator protection:

1. Predator Proofing new and existing coops

2. Electric Fences

3. Trouble in Parasites

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Welcome to BYC @LilaJean - settle in and enjoy our community.
My set-up is similar to @DobieLover - I have a spacious secure run that I can keep them confined in if I am not going to be home to lock up or there is a heavy snow. And then a much, much larger area that is enclosed in electric fence netting where they spend most days.
I have been working to add junk (easy) and shrubs to the fenced area to give them cover from aerial predators. That is a work in progress but enough that I let them out there all day and only confine them if I can’t be home for lock-up time.
 
Welcome. I agree with many here. Long story short, protecting your chickens by them being confined does not equal mites and worms. Likewise, free ranging does not keep them free from them. I cannot use electric fencing only because aerial predators are my biggest problem. Therefore, besides my chickens 18x12 coop, and 20x30 hardcovered and 1/2 inch hardware cloth with an apron run, they have a 40x60 foot space that has hardware cloth fencing and good bird netting on the top -high enough for me to walk under. It looks ridiculous, but it works.
 

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