Any guess what animal left these paw prints?

[Donnasita]

Found these prints inside my chicken run on the back of the coop. I have my guess but now sure what animal prints these are.

 

[CluckerFamily]

My first thought was raccoon but it depends how high off the ground the marks are.

 

[Painted Calls]

My first thought was raccoon but it depends how high off the ground the marks are.

Same.

 

[Donnasita]

Here are more photos for scale and reference. The window with the prints has always been left closed and locked from the inside unless I open it while cleaning for extra ventilation. I immediately added hardwire cloth to this window and decided to just keep it closed since there are two other large windows with hardware cloth that stay open during the day. Looks like the raccoon came back because I found the front door pulled off the frame on the bottom. I will be reenforcing that today.

 

[Painted Calls]

How big is that window? Some sort of size reference would help.

 

[aart]

Yes, please scale and height off ground.
Yardstick placed on ground going up to/past marks would be ideal.

 

[theoldchick]

Time to get a game camera.

http://www.naturetracking.com/

 

[Chickassan]

Is that just screen on your window or hardware cloth?

 

[Donnasita]

coon, and your lucky he didnt rip through that screen and have a chicken dinner.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, this window is always kept closed and locked from the inside unless I’m cleaning the coop. I open the window for extra ventilation. That’s when I found the prints and instantly locked the window permanently shut and added hardwire cloth. We have a trap set up and hope to catch it.

 

[AntiqueB]

Raccoon.