Be sure to contact your wildlife and fisheries office and make a report. This may turn out be be an ongoing problem and the bear may need to be put down. Once they know you have good food for the taking, your coop becomes a restaraunt.
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Oh, wow. I'm so very sorry. Here I am worried about coons and foxes and you're dealing with bear! We have bear in the area but very rarely do they go near homes. Guess I should be out the lookout just in case. I have no clue how I'd react to a bear, probably hide in my closet . . .Well, saying a prayer didn't help this time. Last night a black bear climbed the 6 ft chainlink fence and got into the chicken run. He ripped off the side of the coop, and my beautiful Goose (Blue Andalusian) flew out and he took her away before we could get down there. She was the top hen of the group, and I feel in my heart she went out to distract him so the rest could be saved. I feel like throwing up. I didn't sleep all night. I am going out to get barbed wire so I can string it along the top of the fence in a coil. I am also getting ammonia, and putting soaked rags there, too. I've got to get wood to reinforce my coop, and a motion sensor light. I am going to hang wind chimes on the fence too, so I can hear him before he gets to the coop. I won't leave the girls in there tonight..I took them out last night after the break in and put them in the garage. I knew he would come back, and he did, 2 more times. DOW is bringing us more rubber bullets. I feel awful right now. I am also buying an air horn. Any other ideas?