What got into my run? ***PICS INCLUDED***

[cluckmecoop7]

Oh, and @Overo Mare - no, I don't have a trail cam and money it tight right now.

 

[Painted Calls]

Oh, and @Overo Mare - no, I don't have a trail cam and money it tight right now.

I understand!

 

[Starburst]

Looking closer, I do agree it was probably a raccoon. Sneaky creatures, they are! Really glad that it didn’t get your chickens!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

I understand!

Thanks for understanding.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Looking closer, I do agree it was probably a raccoon. Sneaky creatures, they are! Really glad that it didn’t get your chickens!

Thank you!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Oh, do you think it will be back tonight? I want to put a trap out. What should I bate it with?

 

[RainbowHen]

If it ate the feed and dirtied the water it was most likely a coon. The way the net is caved in and the fence bent points even more to raccoon. Most like when it's fat butt climbed in and and out of the fence. It will be back. You will need to dispatch it. You can add electric wire around your run to deter it.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Coons will eat chicken feed and sunflower seeds if you have those on hand.

 

[Starburst]

Oh, do you think it will be back tonight? I want to put a trap out. What should I bate it with?

It will probably be back. Maybe not tonight, but it will probably swing by sooner or later. I’ve heard that raccoons like sweet things, particularly marshmallows. They also are known to like fish, feed, corn, and eggs.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Thank you for the information.

Last time I tried to trap a raccoon I used marshmallows. Every morning the marshmallows would be gone but the trap would still be set. I decided to put a few smaller traps around the big trap. (it was a foot trap) The next morning: same thing.

That evening I caught a chipmunk in a trap I have a few yards away from the foot trap for the coon. That night and every night after that the trap was un-touched and the marshmallows still their. I suppose I caught the culprit. Get it?