No Eggs and Dead Chickens

[Dadspossum]

I have 24 hens and was getting 18 eggs a day until last week. Starting about last month I had been leaving my chicken coop door open, because they love being out, and lay more when I do let them out. Well, last weekend I went out of town and had a neighbor feed for me and gather eggs, in 4 days they got only 20 eggs. Weird, but I didn't worry. For two more days I got no eggs. Then the next day I saw a raccoon around the barn so I thought that was what was getting my eggs. I closed my chickens back up in their pen two days ago and still I'm getting no eggs. Today when I went to go feed there was two dead chickens and NO EGG! What's happening??


PLEASE HELP!!!!

 

[kmiller11]

Do you have any pictures of you're coop? Many predators can get in the littlest gaps or openings.

 

[Dadspossum]

My coop is designed so no predators can get in. We have checked every nook and crany

 

[kmiller11]

Were the dead chickens bloody? Or are you thinking it was a desiese that wiped them out? Have you lost any since? Or gotten any eggs?

 

[wildthingsfarm]

We have lost a couple chickens to raccoons and the remaining hens have all but stopped laying. We get an egg or two a day, at most, from 9 layers. I wonder if they've been stressed by the raccoon attacks. We have trapped two coons and haven't seemed to have any more problems, but our hens haven't started laying again