So yesterday around 0320 (we assume because the deer cameras caught some does who were VERY spooked and looking in the direction of the coop) I'm pretty sure a raccoon attacked and killed three of my girls. Two heads were ripped clean off, RIP Lucy, my RIR, and Beauty, my Australorp. My third...
Update: the chick died.
This morning when my husband went to let out the chickens, he found that one of our four-week-old Buff Orpington chicks had a bloody flayed back! The chicks had been closed up by themselves in a separate coop with their "mother," a Silkie cross, and are also within an...