I am sorry you lost a bird to the fox. The fox are so smart.

I am only raising my own food, so not big time, but I guess bigger than a 6 chicken flock which is the most urban people are usually allowed.

I haven't figured out the fox yet. They can climb, so we electrified the layer pen. Actually it was already electrified, because raccoons can climb too. But now it is HOT: 7000 volts I think it is. So hot we put the wire on extension holders so the chickens don't hit it. And it's a dedicated charger.

The fox figured that out: if she couldn't get in, get the chickens out. She she'd charge the fence, the birds would freak, and 1 would eventually fly out.

So we put up a fox guard fence about 6' away from the pen's fence and that stopped the charging by the fox. We'd lost 3 by the time we figured this out.

Then we stopped seeing the foxes. Haven't for a couple weeks. But we are still on guard....There's more where those came from.

We liked watching the fox, but truth be told, I prefer having the coyotes. They aren't as smart and we've never had a problem with them and the birds. But they've been nearly wiped out around here in the last 10 years, so now we have fox to deal with.

We don't kill the predators. The rodent population is unbelievable around where without the coyotes. As much as the foxes are a problem, we won't kill them. They do eat the rodents too. I just wish people would not hunt the coyotes.