- Apr 7, 2012
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Has anyone experienced Raccoons killing multiple hens and not eating them? Something took 3 bantams from inside the fenced run, that includes roof as well. Soil is too hard to dig and no evidence anyway. Whatever it was pushed in fencing in roof cut to fit around the trunks of a huge grape vine. It pushed out the same way. It dropped the carcasses right where it popped thru the hardware cloth roof, ate most of one, part of another and killed and dissected the last but didn't eat from it. The killer was strong to push thru the 4"x2" opening in the hardware cloth while holding a chicken and climbing 7' to get out. I'm ****** and very sad. One was a 16 yr. old Mille fleur rooster, another a little hen sitting her first clutch of eggs and last my tiny red Cochin hen of 12 years. I will miss them all.
