I'm new to raising chickens. We moved to Texas almost 4 years ago in 2013 and we bought our first set of chickens shortly thereafter. We started off with six production red hens that provided us lots of eggs. We then added some Ameraucana hens and we were doing well until some raccoons happened along and decimated our flock. We then lined the pen that holds the coops with chicken wire. So, again everything was going well up until about 10 days ago when my husband found a dead Ameraucana hen. He said it looked like something ate a hole above the tail feathers. We thought it was an egg obstruction and then the other hens maybe started in on it, but now we found another one inside the nesting box in the same condition a week later.