Ashley Twardosky

I greatly appreciate your response and sharing your experience. I'm wondering it an exterior poultry net fence would be the way. It'll be the cheapest option for fencing; it looks like the least painstaking installation as well. Then the interior fences don't have to be as secure.

The rotational paddock system would be the entire 1/4-ish acre which would enclose all the trees. Road on one edge, lawn on another, and a stream on the last edge. Therefore I'm not very worried about the fox climbing a tree into the fencing.

A 48" height really keeps away the fox? My anxiety says if the fence is only 4', as soon as they realized it has the ability to jump the fence, all the fencing would have been for not.

I am in love with rotating chicken paddocks. We have kept chickens, quite unsuccessfully. We have arial predators, as well as a family of fox, and at least a weasel. The space I am eyeing for my first two paddocks will be in a young forest; it must have tress less than 10 years old, 30/40 ft high moderately dense canopy.

I'm guessing they will nearly 1/4 acre each. I'll be putting less than 10 Lakenvelder. They were only available in a straight run, and too many will turn out to be roos. I chose Lakenvelder because they are known to be a skittish breed.

There are tactics I have/will employ to keep them safe. But the biggest concern is a fox entering into the paddocks. I envision a secure paddock. A fox can jump 7 feet high and it can climb trees. I plan to have 7 ft high fencing with electric along the top and the bottom. Deer fencing to fill in the fence. I've also read that having an exterior fence can deter the fox.

I'm interested if anyone has experience with fox. Is this overkill? Are there other considerations I am missing?

PS I am not interested in capturing or killing the fox. I want to deter.