They will probably keep coming back. I have several cameras on my property and most nights I see a predator on at least one of the cameras. I do have electric wire around my pens and coops, concrete under the gates and heavy duty netting covering all of the pens. Not long ago I had my first casualties in many years. Some how a gate was opened. I was sure it wasn't me and 2 birds missing with only a couple of piles of feathers. The next morning I went out and noticed something had tried to open the gate again only this time I had it wired shut. We have been having some fog. The night of the break-in, I had seen on video a fox but the fog was too thick to see the gate. The next night I saw a coyote walking around the coop and pen on camera video. Here is a fairly recent picture of a coyote behind the coops, but they know the electric wire is there. For family members, the power can be turned off during the day. Lately I have left the electric on during the day because the predators are out either mating or getting ready to have their young and we've been seeing them more often now during the day but mostly at night. A couple of weeks ago I lost my very special pet chicken to a fox during the day, and everything likes chicken.
