Yeah I'm kinda bummed about the blue copper roo who was in there, he was really nice. I am just so shocked that something would chew right through the center of 1/2 inch plywood! Its not even like he started chewing at one corner, he just went straight down!
We are gonna bait the trap with what's left of the rooster. One is gone completely, one is mostly just be-headed (which makes me think its a raccoon). We are going to leave the coop locked up with the top still ripped off and stick the roo in a trap and place it into the brooder.
This is the first real raccoon attack we've had in a long time but we have had a few earlier this year: One night I had a broody key west hen that hid out in the bushes and I didn't know where she was. Then around 3 am I woke up to a bunch of ruckus going on and went out to the porch and here comes that broody hen running right up on the porch and up the steps and following right behind her was the biggest raccoon I have ever see! He was totally focused on her and didn't even seem to notice me till I screamed lol. Then he ran off into the night. I bet it was him!!
-Then,something attacked 2 roosters earlier this spring and killed one and bit the other in the head (He was a mean solid blue roo -he survived) these two roos had stayed out in the run and wouldn't go in their coop that night and they must of been close to the outside of the wire cuz it pulled the one's head through the fence wire that it killed . We are surrounded by woods here so lots of predators.
I have mostly been dealing with foxes all summer long..they are hard to get. I have a game cam and got several pics of foxes trying to dig under brooder pens etc. One got into a pen and took 5 hens grrr. He would even come out in the daytime. All our neighbors have chickens too now (even the ones that hated ours -now have them too lol) anyhow I think someone shot that fox because he is gone. I haven't got him on the game cam in a long time and no digging under runs lately.
We are gonna bait the trap with what's left of the rooster. One is gone completely, one is mostly just be-headed (which makes me think its a raccoon). We are going to leave the coop locked up with the top still ripped off and stick the roo in a trap and place it into the brooder.
This is the first real raccoon attack we've had in a long time but we have had a few earlier this year: One night I had a broody key west hen that hid out in the bushes and I didn't know where she was. Then around 3 am I woke up to a bunch of ruckus going on and went out to the porch and here comes that broody hen running right up on the porch and up the steps and following right behind her was the biggest raccoon I have ever see! He was totally focused on her and didn't even seem to notice me till I screamed lol. Then he ran off into the night. I bet it was him!!
-Then,something attacked 2 roosters earlier this spring and killed one and bit the other in the head (He was a mean solid blue roo -he survived) these two roos had stayed out in the run and wouldn't go in their coop that night and they must of been close to the outside of the wire cuz it pulled the one's head through the fence wire that it killed . We are surrounded by woods here so lots of predators.
I have mostly been dealing with foxes all summer long..they are hard to get. I have a game cam and got several pics of foxes trying to dig under brooder pens etc. One got into a pen and took 5 hens grrr. He would even come out in the daytime. All our neighbors have chickens too now (even the ones that hated ours -now have them too lol) anyhow I think someone shot that fox because he is gone. I haven't got him on the game cam in a long time and no digging under runs lately.
