JessiPie2335
Hatching
Hi 
I've looked through posts but nothing exactly the same and I want to feel like I know what took my babies.
I had 2 chickens taken from inside their coop. 1 chicken each night for 2 nights. The 1st time there were some feathers..a handful.. In the coop but no blood or signs of a struggle other than that. My kids left the door to the coop open. I spent time trying to make the coop more secure for my 2 remaining birds and made sure to close the door and put a sheet of plywood over it that night, too. 1 Wall of the coop was old haggard wood with gaps so I'd put up chicken wire over the wall in a few layers. That's bound to be how they got to my chickens. The next morning I find that another chicken- my little rooster - was also gone. This time there weren't even feathers or any signs of of a struggle at all. The person I rehomed my remaining chicken to sounded pretty confident that it was raccoons, but from what I've read there would be signs of a struggle. If it had been a raccoon wouldn't there? I don't see raccoons in the yard but we have had several skunks living under the shop right next to the coop in the past. My neighbor feeds a fox every year, but she swears up and down that that fox has already moved on from this location this year. She says it migrates within like a 50 to 100 mile radius around or something. The lady that fades the fox every year says that she believes it's these really big and mean gray stray cats that no one's been able to run off around here. They used to bully my mom's Yorkie dog. Do you think it could be the cat? She texted me this morning and said that her husband saw it over by the coop this morning
I've looked through posts but nothing exactly the same and I want to feel like I know what took my babies.
I had 2 chickens taken from inside their coop. 1 chicken each night for 2 nights. The 1st time there were some feathers..a handful.. In the coop but no blood or signs of a struggle other than that. My kids left the door to the coop open. I spent time trying to make the coop more secure for my 2 remaining birds and made sure to close the door and put a sheet of plywood over it that night, too. 1 Wall of the coop was old haggard wood with gaps so I'd put up chicken wire over the wall in a few layers. That's bound to be how they got to my chickens. The next morning I find that another chicken- my little rooster - was also gone. This time there weren't even feathers or any signs of of a struggle at all. The person I rehomed my remaining chicken to sounded pretty confident that it was raccoons, but from what I've read there would be signs of a struggle. If it had been a raccoon wouldn't there? I don't see raccoons in the yard but we have had several skunks living under the shop right next to the coop in the past. My neighbor feeds a fox every year, but she swears up and down that that fox has already moved on from this location this year. She says it migrates within like a 50 to 100 mile radius around or something. The lady that fades the fox every year says that she believes it's these really big and mean gray stray cats that no one's been able to run off around here. They used to bully my mom's Yorkie dog. Do you think it could be the cat? She texted me this morning and said that her husband saw it over by the coop this morning
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