I live in a small town on 3 acres, have lots of neighbors and kept my ducks/geese in my backyard all last summer, fall and winter with no losses. Now spring is here and I've lost entire nests of eggs that the ducks were trying to brood, they've gone into molting and now 3 ducks have vanished. We find no egg shells and no bodies. About 8-10 feet from the yard we found some wet feathers though, but that is all. My best guess is a racoon from what I read but we have smelled a skunk a few times in the past couple weeks. These raids all happened fairly close together, one nest one day, random eggs throughout that week, then second nest dissapeared and then 2 ducks one night and 1 duck the last. I've been locking them up or keeping my shepherd with them since then till I can install hotwire on the fence. It almost 6ft chainlink with chicken wire at the bottom and in the gaps. When it was just eggs I suspected snake, then ducks went missing suspected human but since the 3rd duck has gone and found those few feathers belive I'm dealing with a coon problem. Would appreciate opinions though.
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