Well, the raccoons won. My chicken coop and pen was a mass murder scene when I went down there this morning. All had been beheaded.
I cannot figure out how the coons got in. The chicken "run" is made of eight 6x10 foot dog kennel sections set over fencing buried about 4 inches in the ground and connected to the kennel panels. The coop eves are all boxed in and the rest of the coop, except for the chicken door, is very tight. After the last attacks I even put a second set of chicken fencing over the top.
Coons certainly are clever, scheming, and deadly critters.
Geeze, I'm down to just my one-eyed cat and the fish.
