racoon

I'm having such a hard time. We have 1 rooster and 3 hens. I went out yesterday morning to the worst scene.. a racoon broke into my coop. All hens safe but scared! I couldn't find my rooster & seen feathers all over the yard and then I find him with his head completely gone. It was so brutal...

I thought I should share my Racoon Disaster because I thought my coop was safe. It was for about 20 years, and then it wasn't. The racoon climbed onto the top of my coop and did some acrobatic maneuvers to wedge himself between my rafter / ventilation space. He was able to get in and out the...

We are having a major raccoon problem in our yard. Two raccoons are coming nightly, eating our grapes and then using our side yard as their restroom. We have small kids and have had to keep them out of the yard so they don’t go near the feces and it’s getting really old. We’ve had two live traps...

Hello all! If you're reading this odds are your chicken's leg has been ripped off by a raccoon. This happened to my chick last night (around the "knee" area), so below I will write 1) WHAT TO DO when this happens (what I did) 2) PRODUCTS that are lifesavers in these type of situations 3) My...

We have another racoon lurking around! My wife told me that something scared the poop out of the ducks last night (looking at the duck house's floor i can confirm that ;)) and i discovered today that something has chewed through five layers of construction grade tarp and got into the duck's food...

No blood, no body part, only 3-4 feathers. This is happening during day, close to house, while I'm home, while they're free ranging on one acre, fenced, lots of hiding places. We have raccoons, don't think that's it. We have hawks (and owls), Coyotes, Fox. What do you think this is?

I wanted to share an older story about my daughter who was 10 at the time. It was a small article in the online version of Traverse Magazine. She is 16 now, and would kill me if she knew i was doing this. https://mynorth.com/2013/09/northern-michigan-10-yr-old-saves-her-chickens-from-hawk/ 2...

Hi guys. I’m a bit frazzled after learning that two of my six chickens went missing overnight. I have no idea what did it, and the clues are pointing me in all different directions. My father and I built a coop against our house next to our back door; it has a solid roof and wooden posts with...

I became too trusting of my environment after letting my chickens free range and never locking their run/coop door for a while. One weekend I was away, came home and found one half eaten in the coop and another dismantled around the back of the coop. My fault as I have a very safe setup and...

Hi, I'm not familiar with posting in threads like this, am typing w one hand & holding the injured bird w the other- please bear w me & thank you in advance for any help/suggestions/info A few months back, my son came home from work w 12 chicks (pullets?) from our local Tractor Supply. He's...