After my four mellow, tame chicks that I had raised from a young age were killed by a fox, I replaced them with some older pullets. I don't know how old they were, but they were just starting to get feathers on their backs when I got them, and the body has mostly filled out with feathers now...
My dad has had success keeping raccoons from digging worms in his lawn by putting mousetraps in the area where they are digging. After the 'coons get snapped once or twice, they don't come back for a long time.
I screwed mousetraps around my coop, and placed a bunch on the ground around the...