raccoon attack hens beak chewed off.

[lazy gardener]

Lazy Gardener you use electric netting from premier?
I have regular glass window panes with hardware cloth on the inside with it attached to the frames then sandwiched with a nailed down wooden batten. does that make sense. my brain doesn't want to work right now.

My window set up is similar. The glass panes tip out, and there is 1/2" hdw. cloth covering the window opening from the inside.

I used Premier 1 electronet for a few years, until hawk predation forced me to abandon it and build a covered run. I still have the electronet, and intend to use it this season to expand the run to give the lawn a break from the many #'s of chicken bombs. I don't mind walking through the mine field, but hubby does not have the same tolerance level. So, compromise is the name of the game.

 

[zinia8]

I’m so sorry. We had a raccoon pull an entire bunny through the same type of wire you show on the left side of your photo. It’s only about an inch wide, right? Ours is a puppy pen we use as a daytime bunny run and poor bunny was accidentally left out one night.

So sorry. I would put her down. I'm sure she has had an amazing life... I would not want her to suffer any more.
I also have been blasting those suckers. They killed my pair of pheasants worth $600. They were so sweet and cool.
We have killed 8 in the past 5 days. Along with some opossums.

Oh my that is horrible for both of you. I know what you are going through. I think there is a herd of raccoons here. Left the dirty rotten thing in the trap last night and its family members must of tried to dig it out. The run was full of holes all around the cage and everywhere else. This one is no more. Trap is reset.

 

[Thespeckledchick]

Had raccoons get into my coop and kill all 10 of my hens in one night. Now raccoons tremble at the sight of me. Here is one I trapped last week.

 

[featherhead007]

Wow! That’s a lot of raccoon and opossums!

I hear coon tastes pretty good!

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry about your hen. Four years ago we had a similar thread here about Fuzzy Bum the hen who lost her beak to a dog. I had first recommended putting the hen down, but the teenager who owned her would not have it. She learned to tube feed her 3 times a day with her parents help. Eventually she learned to drink and eat scrambled egg, then wet chicken feed. It took a long time, but she is doing well, and her owner gives us an update on her return as the flock leader, and how she is doing. Here is that thread, and I hope you do what you feel is right for you and her:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/plese-help-chickens-beak-got-bit-off.848424/

 

[Eggcessive]

Fuzzy Bum 4 years later, free ranging and eating chicken feed normally:

 

[The Phantom]

Oh my that is horrible for both of you. I know what you are going through. I think there is a herd of raccoons here. Left the dirty rotten thing in the trap last night and its family members must of tried to dig it out. The run was full of holes all around the cage and everywhere else. This one is no more. Trap is reset.View attachment 1432506 View attachment 1432508

I have been trapping them in my bird pen where the killed my pheasants. I have fishing line tied to the door running to the house. So I shine with a flash light every now and then. When they go in there, I yank the line and the door shuts. Then we go out and shoot them. Last night I got a combo of a opossum and coon in there at the same time!

I hear coon tastes pretty good!

I ain't eating any of them sick things!

 

[Tesumph]

I would try to save her.. but that’s just me. If you can’t stomach it or don’t have to time to put in, go ahead and euthanize her. Personally, I think it’s recoverable.

 

[micstrachan]

@zinia8 did you see the post of Fuzzy Bum the beakless chicken who has lived for years normally without a beak?

 

[micstrachan]

*Lived for four years.