They will eat the chicken food and steal eggs before they kill a chicken. the adult possum in my experince is the one which will kill a chicken and they start at the rearend and eat in.
I have had a chicken killed by adult possum, never had a chicken killed from a young one.
I free range and...
Racoon and possum will travel in daylight if hungry enough and or know of a reliable food source to go to. Thou they are primarily a nightime , noctunal animal
I have seen them move in daylight, it is the ones which dont run away. I have come across bout half dozen of them over the years. get a...