Yesterday morning I went out to the coop to let our 11 hens out and when I opened up the door and went in there were 3 dead. 2 were killed and left there and the third was killed and partially eaten. There were no signs of where it got in or how, so we spent half of the day reinforcing our coop and putting up extra chicken wire to keep whatever it was out. After some research and talking to some people we know I thought it was probably a weasle or mink. So we put them away last night and I slept on our couch so I would wake up if I heard anything and sure enough at 2am there was some loud noise and I ran out and it was a raccoon, it had killed another chicken but we were able to scare it out by putting on lights and banging on the walls with a bat. We spent a few hours out there making sure it didn't come back. This morning my sister got in touch with the game commission who said since it had killed our chickens we are allowed to trap and kill it. So the plan for tonight is to cage the hens up and put them in our basement for the night and set traps in and around the coop to get the raccoon. Just not sure what to do after we catch it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
P.S. I hate raccoons
P.S. I hate raccoons