- Jul 10, 2009
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I have an egg business from free-range hens. I have lost about 25 hens in 4 daytime fox attacks over last few weeks. My coops are very tight for the night, but daytime is the problem. I had them in electronetting in the am but loose in the afternoon. Foxes are coming in broad daylight when we are around. We are considering fencing a field with high tensile fence. Two questions: how high should it be to discourage daytime predation? And, more importantly, I don't want my field to look like my runs do. Any sense of how many chickens per acre so that their poop and scratching don't leave a wasteland?! Thanks.
