If you want to try and confirm "bear" (or whatever else), you could put some powder (lime, perhaps, as the cheapest) to see if you get any prints. It could conceivably be a raccoon--they are stronger than you'd think, and ordinary poultry netting or chicken wire would normally be something they could pull at easily.
Lights, etc., as deterrents might work, but it will depend somewhat on how human-habituated the critter is. (We had a bear a couple years ago that spent every night for weeks making a warm crater for itself in the top of the manure pile--less than 50 yards from the barn, which has an outside floodlight. My mare was NOT HAPPY.)
I'd strongly suggest the electric fence. The charger could be one which runs off a power receptacle, if one is within reach of a heavy extension cord; could also be hooked into a deepcycle battery; could also be a solar-charged. Plug-in is your cheapest option; with a small area to surround, you shouldn't need a huge output or weed-burning capability. Be sure to get some good long grounding rods, and you might pour some water down the holes for them, or otherwise make sure the ground is damp enough for a good ground (strong "zap"). For a small area like that, plus best zap, I'd suggest plain wire--they say aluminum is most visible at night. Easiest option for posts is usually the step-in fiberglass posts--if you already have good wooden posts for your chicken run, you may be able to find plastic insulators that will stand the wire out away from the existing chicken wire.
Remember that a bear (or coon!) has pretty thick fur--good insulation--so you have to make the first few "zaps" memorable. Beekeepers' advice is to lay several pieces of bacon on the wire--when bear smells that and goes for the easy treat, the tender nose gets the zap. Hopfully if the wire is baited for a while, he learns to avoid wire...
Same basic idea ought to work if it's raccoon. You'll want a second, lower wire, in that case, maybe only a foot or so from the ground. Be sure to keep grass and weeds cleared away from under it, so there's no short.
Good luck with whatever your would-be predator is.
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