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If you want to let the water get away, make a trench, and consider getting a bit of 'land drain'. If there is slope above the run, put a 'cut off' trench at the top end so whatever rain may fall 'uphill' goes away down the trench/ditch instead of running into the chicken run. Land-drain is good there as well, but you might need to add some gravel.
A 'classic' soakaway is all very well, but if the soil is deep clay it just provides somewhere else for the water to sit.
Unless the 'wire' of the fence is chain-link or weldmesh, it won't be fox-proof. If it is one of those foxy may climb over. There is nothing that is guaranteed fox-proof, but adding an electric strand 6" above the ground, and 6" outside the fence helps a lot. Another such wire level with the top of the fence and 6" outside (assuming that is high enough for you to walk under to go in) is an extra degree of security. I know of one garden where that is all the people have added to a chicken-wire enclosure, and they have foxes visit their garden often because the neighbours are fox-watchers, they've never lost one to the visitors.
A 'classic' soakaway is all very well, but if the soil is deep clay it just provides somewhere else for the water to sit.
Unless the 'wire' of the fence is chain-link or weldmesh, it won't be fox-proof. If it is one of those foxy may climb over. There is nothing that is guaranteed fox-proof, but adding an electric strand 6" above the ground, and 6" outside the fence helps a lot. Another such wire level with the top of the fence and 6" outside (assuming that is high enough for you to walk under to go in) is an extra degree of security. I know of one garden where that is all the people have added to a chicken-wire enclosure, and they have foxes visit their garden often because the neighbours are fox-watchers, they've never lost one to the visitors.
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