





Help with predator ID. It was a massacre. Do not swipe unless you are comfortable with dead chickens.
UPDATE: I got off work early, and went around some more. I found a smaller opening, higher up in the run, directly below where some hens like to roost at night. Beneath that, there are a bunch of smudged 4 toe tracks approximately 2 inches across, and a few more in various places in the coop. Based on this, I believe it was a bobcat, that couldn't figure out how to get back out. Which is how the side wall got punched out ward as should in the images.
Original post:
As mentioned. The coop got busted into, and I am trying to ID the animal.
We heard some noise last night, and went down to look at it. We saw some bright yellow eyes going deeper into the woods. So we set a trap up.
Whatever it was, ripped ignored the trap and ripped a hole in the coop.
This coop has kept out near 20lb racoons, skunks, possums, and hawks ripping at this side before. So whatever it was was very determined to open it up this much.
I am leaning towards a raccoon, based on the eyes last night (as bright and yellow as lightning bugs).
Any thoughts?
EDIT:
Located in Pennsylvania, about an hour south of Harrisburg.
14 carcasses, and I suspect one missing completely, the feathers make a trail several hundred feet.
Not really any digging, but we have a few inches of hardware cloth buried around the base, that usually deters digging.