Well it is a raccoon! I went out this morning, there where four new holes dug, and some lovely little foot prints. Now we have to get rid of it, we are going to go look at traps today.
Thanks Everyone!
I am sorry for your losses
I thought that raccoons would just tare a chicken apart? What ever it is has a choice of all the chicks but was only taking one each night
I will go measure the hole tomorrow. Do you know the little gaps that are at the bottom corner of the panels for a dog run? The holes are no bigger than that. It is no where big enough for a raccoon, I don't think. Unless it was a small raccoon or opossum. I am in Franklin, NC, not sure if that...
We thought about about a mole, or rat but where not sure. What about a weasel? What thru us off was that the crate was moved, could that have just been the chickens since they where scared?
Our chicks are a little over 3 months old and have been in the coop for a couple weeks now with no problems. The other night we had something dig under the coop and take our pullet. I patch the hole with some wire until I could get enough wire to go around the whole coop. The next night it came...