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I know how horrible that feels! I have raccoon problems too, and you just feel helpless!
What was worse for me than the helplessness was that I had several instances through that day where I was thinking of bringing them in early, or thinking I should check on them, or on and on, and I just... didn't. I feel so guilty about it, especially it being miss Bee, who barely had a shot at life, and about poor Sumi who has twice now had to watch one of her sisters be killed in her short life. Bee also was kind of a bright spot for me in an otherwise fully crappy spring, and I'd grown quite attached to her because of her being the only chick to hatch in her group and me having to give her a lot of attention her first week of life until her brothers hatched, and now she's just gone. Such a vibrant, cheerful, happy little baby, gone in such a violent way.
I am very sorry!
It will be worth the work to have them more secure.
I hope it's not too difficult. I'm concerned I might mess it up and then either burn their coop down or just have them not actually be protected or something... For right now, they'll be bunking in the main coop because I know it's secure. Still waiting on lumber to come down in price before I can really do anything, unfortunately. It has come down a bit here, but definitely not enough to be affordable yet.