- Jun 15, 2013
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I arrived home later than usual last night to find one of my silkie hens killed. She was dragged out of the coop and run from what the trail of feathers told me. The head was ripped off, belly open with entrails spilled out, only one foot that I could see. No sign of the head or foot... Distraught, I buried the hen at the back of my property in the dark. There was an obvious space under the outside fence where a predator could've entered. It's my fault as the coop wasn't yet closed and the outer fence is really just a fence to keep deer out of our garden. This morning I saw obvious raccoon prints in the dew on top of the coop And the buried hen had been dug up and taken. Will the culprit come back again? What is the best course of action? This is my first experience w this kind of thing and ive only had my chickens since the end of April.HELP