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x2 Making your coop more secure is always a good idea but the predators will never go away especially when they already know there's food in there.

I stand corrected! It was hard to tell in your first series of photos; the last one looks more like fox but with the other three...it could have been smudgy due to moisture or because the smudges are in fact part of the print. In my opinion, you need to do both. Where there's one coon...

Fox don't have a set time of day to hunt. They'll watch from a safe distance and strike when the coast is clear. I lost my entire bevy of ducks and all but one hen in the middle of a blizzard a few years ago when a window blew out in my barn. The fox took the opportunity to get in through the...

It does sound like you're dealing with a fox based on habits and scat http://www.raising-chickens.org/chicken-predators.html http://www.summitpost.org/scat-identification/276861 I'm thinking the "dewclaw" may be just an overlap from the hind foot. Fox are opportunistic hunters and will...

So glad you caught this little guy/gal!!

Hardware cloth would be best. Chicken wire can be torn easily and it rusts in no time making it very weak. You'd be having to replace it a lot more frequently. Hardware cloth is more expensive initially but in the long run, not having to replace it like chicken wire, you'd end up spending less.

I'm sure it will be back. You're plan to upgrade fencing is great and should help keep future intruders at bay. You could always set a live trap baited with a can of tuna, catfood, chicken (although I think I'd avoid the chicken) etc. If you want to catch it and then contact local fish and game...

You're welcome! A weasel could certainly fit through the 1x2" openings but those aren't weasel tracks. They also would have eaten the head and neck, not gone for the crop and organs in the torso. I think the most likely predator you're dealing with is a raccoon...at least in the coop...

I would also say coon. Those "finger tips" in your photo are far too rounded and they're solid...not pointed and broken up like the opossum.