stolen eggs

I have recently discovered a bit of a rat problem in my coop/run and am working on getting it taken care of. I have a few things in the works, but if I have more issues, I'll be back for suggestions. What I'm here for is to inquire about a real head-scratcher that happened today. I have a...

Soooo I went out to check the chickens today and let them out and I discovered a bunch of empty egg shells on the ground outside the coop, appears to be about 6 eggs with yolk still pretty fresh in some, and what appears to be raccoon prints on top of the nest box??? But I cannot for the life of...

After seeing broken, empty shells in the coop, I decided to research possible solutions. The best one I found was on youtube that uses egg box design rather than darkness, mustard, etc. The egg box is altered by tilting it forward, then a piece of hardware cloth is formed into a horizontal "u"...

Okay, I'm really perplexed. We have a Tom and two hens. The hens were laying eggs almost daily, very consistently for several months. Then - suddenly, we couldn't find eggs. After a couple of weeks, I was mowing along a fence row and guess what - a next of about eight or ten Turkey eggs...