Sweet Jesus! What kind of awful raccoons are these? Is it possible that perhaps you could start leaving food out for the raccoons?
Here is my thinking, when I was young I lived with my grandparents, and my grandma loved to come to where I live now and visit my Great Aunt and Great Uncle that lived on top of a mountain in a large log cabin....My uncle had a pretty respectable chicken and hog keeping operation, and my Aunt was a lover of wildlife...she would leave little dishes of food out on the porch and if she saw the same critter coming and eating over and over she would start moving the dish closer and closer to the house little bit by little bit, until she would leave the backdoor open and a little bowl of scraps sitting on the kitchen table...So you might be sitting in the kitchen talking and in would walk a squirrel or raccoon and just climb right up on the table and eat whatever was in the little bowl...She had 4 squirrels and 2 raccoons that would let her hold and pet them...they walked out of the woods and into her arms...not 50 feet away were 100 chickens, and the only animal that stole chickens was a fox, and my uncle staked out the coop all night and shot the fox..the next day 2 baby foxes wandered in looking for their mom...so then my aunt had 2 foxes that she bottle fed...so....perhaps you have to make friends with the wildlife...
And I swear that story isn't internet BS...for real...she had hand trained woods creatures, and fairly safe chickens....So she drew in raccoons, but they would eat what she gave them and not go after the chickens I guess....so just an idea...maybe leave out a dish of scraps you wouldn't feed your chickens...Of course this could go terribly...but it might work?
Oddly enough we saw some bears and skunks when we first moved in...but nothing in about 2 months...It's almost like we got the chickens and it scared everything away...
