Help-How to keep away owls & foxes

[Cacklin" Hens]

I have had a fox come in my yard twice and killed two bantams. I caught him coming into the yard the other evening late, but before I could get to a gun to shoot him he took off. How do you keep away foxes. My main problem is owls and maybe hawks. I have had an owl or hawk(not sure if hawks are active at night tho??) come and perch around the chicken houses numerous nights in the tree (I have went to get eggs late and he flew off) and last night he bothered my guineas that sleep in a tree because I went out there around dark and they were all roosted in the same tree as always and then I went back at 930pm to get eggs and they were walking/crouched in the yard clueless. Can anyone please help me here??? THANKS

 

[sourland]

A great horned owl will eventually kill any and all birds that are roosting out side. Once they start, they are relentless. I once had a large flock of free ranging bantams. A family of owls reduced this flock by 50% before the more intelligent individuals decided that sleeping in the coop was a far better idea than sleeping in the pines. Owls are protected-fox are not. Kill the fox. That is the only sure solution. A sturdy pen and locked coop serve to protect birds, but it sounds as if you enjoy free ranging.

 

[aprophet]

fox I trap and dispatch quiet a few here in chesapeake I have ospreys owls and red tails and the little falcons but the lean to my birds are under are too tight for them to get into. motion detectors and flashing lights come to mind