PLEASE help, foxes!

[McChooky]

I have a 4 x 6 raised coop (24 sq ft) with a 4 x 6 area under it for sun bathing (24 sq ft ) The run front run is warm and sunny in the winter months. It connect to a larger run (128 sq ft) with a foyer (16 sq ft) that opens to a large fenced backyard where they free range.I keep 10 - 20 chickens in this set up (216 sq ft) and free range without pressure because its roomy.Sometimes I lock my chickens up for months at a time so predators will move on.

 

[Titania207]

I have bird netting over the top of my run - will this deter foxes as they will be, in theory, scared to get tangled up in it? (it is tight against the side without gaps)

 

[Folly's place]

I think a determined raccoon or fox will chew through it. Hasn't happened here, when we had a similar set-up, but we might have just been lucky.
Mary

 

[my spoiled chickens]

Let your dog out on them that works for me if you don't have a dog maybe try chili powder its good for your chickens but I've heard foxes hate it I've never tried it myself also put human scents around the perimeter (like pee)or hair but the hair tends to blow away