But You can't blame the intruders , You need to secure the sides into the ground with a fence . Foxes can dig under it , raccoons grab through it and pull chicken out . Possums mostly follow raccoons and eat the remains . The key is , better security .

We have 3 chickens (gave 5 to my grandma, and 3 to my moms cousin) and today an opposum came to attack. Thankfully I was just outside and was able to shoo it away. One rooster on the tail area, the feathers were pulled. Thankfully they are all okay, but it was so scary to hear all three start squaking and screaming and I had a mini heart attack. I will be more cautious and try to cover the "small" patches on the chicken coop, and if it's back, I will take action. Due to seeing it a couple times, it never attacked till today.

thank you sis... the knowledge from you is very useful for me as a beginner chicken breeder... greetings breeders from Indonesia

I had the same problem! Lost 4 chickens in a week! I believe 3 of them were attacked by the hawk and the one was attacked at night where it was missing the bottom and no injury to the head unlike the other 3. We then set up a trap and got a huge possum! I live in Tennessee.

Had a similar issue, and the culprit ended up being an opossum as well.

2 of my chickens just disappeared without a trace they are small size chickens. We have possums around where I live. I suspect that the opposums did it, but not sure

I think a fox killed the ducks 😢

I have what appears to be a very young possum that has set up camp in my barn cat stall for the last two weeks. We made a pretty decent size wooden enclosure with a lid to be able to change out straw, etc., for the cats in these Midwest winters. I also use a horse barn for my chickens and other fowl. The possum made a "nest" in the cat box. It even spread out straw on the floor and uses it as a bathroom. I didn't realize that the possum that I saw in the barn just before the last blizzard was even still here. My barn cats never poop on the floor, but I thought maybe it was due to somewhat frozen litter boxes. It wasn't until I saw a pile of broken eggs that I started searching for the possum. Now I have to trap it. I'm tempted to just pick it up because it's no bigger than a cat, but they do have a lot of teeth should it not just play dead. I really didn't know that they killed chickens until my farmer friends advised me to dispatch it immediately. I suck at this part as I don't have the heart to do it, but I understand why it has to be removed at the very least. Thank you for your video.

I kill every possum i catch near my chickens

Guy you need to make a better predator proof coop there's huge space of gaps that raccoons and opossums can reach in and grab and pull a chicken apart

sorry that happened. darn possum

We had one attacked our pet chicken today. It didn't kill her, but did hurt her.

I had an opossum kill one of my birds long while back too! Just found some fresh tracks recently

thank you for that info one of my favourite hen was attacked about a week ago by one and i have had to nurse back to health where im at i cant just go a to and but a trap. One day we had an absolute slaughter the possum killed five of my chickens . I do have a small game pellet gun i just dont know they come out its like 98 degrees outside so during the day it would be imposible

Opossum kiil chiken

I doubt it was an opossum. They rarely attack chickens, especially full grown ones. Chicks and eggs possibly, but not adult chickens. Most likely was either a racoon or a weasel (or other animal in the weasel family).