I don't know about Canadian raccoons, but the ones here in MN will most certainly climb that high. (I'm not quite sure how high *that* high is, but ours climb to the tops of our century old cottonwood trees...) They have no qualms about climbing up a fence, unless, of course, you get that solar or battery powered fencer and juice up your run a bit... If you have trees near the run, they'll use that to get to your chickens. They are diabolical creatures. Evil. Conniving. Nasty.
A coon can climb almost as fast as it can run.... or did I mean to say that a coon can run almost as fast as it can climb?
I use to hunt them at their den trees during the day. On cold clear days they come out of their den trees and Sun themselves on exposed tree limbs. You have to be verry, very quite and be on the look out for the bushy coon tails laying on or hanging from the tree limbs, usually next to the tree trunk. In my experience every coon tail had a coon attached to one end of it.
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