(07-14-2022, 09:39 PM)EricC85 Wrote: Sunday we are processing our 100 meat chickens, they're in a fully enclosed car port I converted into a 2nd coop since I only raise them about 16 weeks before processing. However my egg laying chickens free range during the day in a 24x24 open air pen and then sleep i a raised 12x12 I built a few years ago. 

I've had a predator killing my free range chicken for the last three days. Finally trapped the damn racoon tonight, I'll usher him off to the great garbage pill in the sky in the morning but damn I really hate this critter. He killed 12 of my girls in three days hope he suffers tonight.

I didn't realize that raccoons would kill chickens.  I would have maybe thought either a bobcat or a coyote would be getting to them.  My dog ran off a bobcat that was in our back yard about a month ago and just the last couple of weeks I have seen a couple of coyotes near the house.  I took a shot at one of them about a week ago.

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