Well, that's one way to get rid of an unwanted roo...

[hokankai]

So this year I have a terrible rooster/hen ratio. Out of the chicks I raised so far all of them are boys and two I'm still waiting to see. I bought a pair of silkies because I wanted to have girls, and yesterday was the first time I put them together without a wall separating them. Well, one of the roos was really mean to the little girls, so I put him in a dog crate and separated him so he could get an attitude adjustment. I put the crate in our shop for the night, but this morning he was gone. Looks like a coon pushed the door to the shop open and pulled him through the bars of the crate

I was going to have to give him away anyway, and I wasn't even thinking about coons because we haven't had any problems with them before AND he was inside the door of the shop. But, well....looks like the coon took care of that problem for me. I feel really bad

 

[7L Farm]

Just be aware that the coon will come back for more. I'd set a trap. Sorry about your roo.

 

[mydadsjoy]

Yup, he'll clean you out. Trap and dispatch. Poor roo.

 

[hokankai]

We've got a trap ready to set and I'm hoping the canned cat food will be appealing enough for it. We're also going to be tightening up the run and locks to the coops just in case. There are a few things that can be made a little more secure.

Two years and this is our first coon experience. I guess you can consider that a blessing? If it had come a month ago it would have had access to that whole set of chicks because they were raised in the shop so it definitely could have been worse...