I only give this a thumbs up for the end when the raccoons met their end☠👻 No nasty creature messes with a chicken owner's babies and lives very long!

Common sense-put a strong enough enclosure around all sides of your chicken residence, and nobody will be able to harm them!

Chicken wire is only good to keep chicken in. Raccoon eat chicken wire as appetizer. I learned it the hard way.

The foot holds and 220 conibears traps are the first line of defence around the perimeter of the chicken coop followed by covering up every opening that even a weasel can slip through.

I always thought I was immune from attack. My fencer failed and I lost 2 runner ducks from one pen-and all my call ducks but the one that flew out from the other pen. 12 ducks the first night. Got the fencer up and running. Then they hit the chicken coop. First night they took a dozen birds. I secured the coop, but they got in again and killed another dozen. It was a charnel house. If they’d take one I could handle it but these were our year’s supply of meat birds and replacement layers. It was heartbreaking thinking of the terror those poor birds went through because I was complacent about my coon proofing. I’ve trapped and killed nine of the suckers so far. They poop all over the place, mess in any water you’ve got out, climb all over everything. I can tell they’re still after the chickens cause the birds are so skittish still and stuff resting against the coop gets knocked around. I truly hate the creatures. They carry an amazing array of diseases that can transmit to humans, cats, dogs, horses….. and they breed like rats. I’ll admit that they’re cute, especially the babies, but it’s their only redeeming quality.

I wish they would stop calling that stuff chicken wire. It's cheap. Hardware cloth is the only way to go!

Thanks for letting us learn how to better protect our animals from predators.

I rarely see such evil animals. The raccoons slaughtered all my chickens, gut them, and left their bodies there. Gosh, it’s like they’re doing this not for hunger but for fun!

it cost me a fortune to buy all that hardware cloth and I covered every nook cranny and small hole. for two years nothing has gotten in and we have racoons and foxes galore in fact lost a chicken to a fox while free ranging during the middle of the day, he came back the next day and I caught him in the act of grabbing one in the coop (door was open for free ranging) and he did not expect me and I chased him off he kept coming back sometimes twice in a day for several days but he did not expect me to be outside keeping and eye on them all day, he came back this early spring about a month ago I was watching my girls free ranging during the afternoon and he came running around the house spotted me and took off like a bandit across the street. I have not seen him since. once they succeed it takes alot of pushing and chasing them and they not being successful a second time to forget about coming around. but I wont let my guard down, that raccoon surly got in way to easy, was you thinking about squeezer predators when you put the coop together? they are the most dangerous because many people underestimate their abilities to get in some of the smallest holes if the hole is bigger than 2 inches they will be a racoon or possum small enought to fit.

I have chickens and what I do is I lock them up in the chicken house every night. That way there's no predators that can get to them.

Friend I can't thank you enough. We have had a big raccoon problem in my neighborhood & at my home for years now. however I am in my first year of owning chickens and to my surprise they quickly became pets and I became attached to them! But I am also lazy & I just kept putting off fixing the (VERY) week spots on my coop UNTIL I saw this video. Just seeing your whole family of chickens wiped out got me off my ASS! I just couldn't of lived with myself if I had woke up to a massacre like that because of my laziness.your style of dealing with such a formidable ENEMY was refreshing! My babies thank you.

Great showcase of lessons. Thanks!

Justice, thy name is foot trap.

It makes me sick to trap chickens indoor, and then not protect them properly

As an owner of chickens and turkeys, this breaks my heart! Darn filthy evil creatures! There are idiots out there that feed these monsters because they feel sorry for them. Nightly possum watch for me the last two weeks in a row. Ugly sucker tried getting into our Silkie pen! That swamp rat was not successful! I killed one two years ago after it snuck into the main pen after a major storm tore off the door completely. Took me from 1am to 5am to finally corner and kill it.

Lost 7 chickens of 15 to a family of coons last night. Thank God I got up to smoke. I would've never heard the massacre happening and saved the last three out side. The marshmallow foot trap works better than have a heart traps. But after loosing so many I'm laying out with night vision and I'll pick off every single one that comes

I put up trail cams, and motion detectors aimed at the door and fence line. They give off different sounds so you know where they are. Shot 2 that way. After the trailcams showed 5 raccoons visiting regularly, got some dog proof traps. Best thing ever. You put cat food in a tubular device and the raccoons eat the cat food kibbles with their paws. When they get low on kibble, they pull the lever with their paws and it holds them till morning and you then dispatch them. I lost hundreds of dollars in young birds. They pull them through the wire and eat them alive. A 2 inch hole they can reach through and they eat whatever they pull through. I ended up getting 5 raccoon and 7 opossum between motion detectors, live traps, and the dpg proofs. Sorry all you rocky lovers the populations need to be controlled. Wait until you hear a prize bird getting eaten alive or go out and find 6-8 young corpses lying all over. Heart wrenching and maddening.

If you find a raccoon or any other predator near your coop. You have to kill it.......humanely. Or it will keep coming back for more.

Glad to see you turned the pest into fertilizer.

Augh we found one around our coop just in time so now we are putting chickens inside during night time and just Keep them out during the day. 😬

I sat up with a gun. Then put out poison packets made for raccoons

Where can I buy this kind of trap

That poor little one 😢 The death of all of them broke my heart.

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Lost all my chickens to this so im now watching to see how they did it. 😢

I had to shoot 2 a night for a week DNm near. I had a 4 inch gap between the wall and floor on the coop side and they were coming in and dragging hens through that gap. Couldn't believe they could fit through it. A randomn fox or Hawks are the only issues now. I have an AWESOME rooster though. He's taken a lick'en once but fights the hawks off. He had NO FEAR. It's scary, one day they'll get'em but so far so good.

I would be so upset, now here I am vigilante raccoon.

then dog proof traps are the best coon traps i have ever used, gets the coon every time if set properly.

Just a few days ago, I saw video showing a chicken pen that was protected from the ground up with chicken wire fencing… except over the top!!! This simple error allowed a hawk to fly and land inside, wreaking havoc on the chickens.

I had a dozen hens. Yesterday, three new chicks and an adult were killed. Has to be raccoons. Time to trap, shoot & get even.

He brought a buddy

Home your brain works after few loses

good job mate, sad to see the hens go tho :(

I don't get it. How you do it?

You need to close the area where the chickens are, better, so the predators can't take them.

Around what time did the raccoon show up

Time to load the 12g up take care of that problem

Now go pet the raccoon with a claw hammer

Oh torture, it would've been for that raccoon😂

Nice we dont have raccons in philippines but a lot of predators like rats, it kills every night

I to have chickens, however after watching this, I am disgusted.....I to do not want my chickens or other farm animals to be killed or eaten by WILD animals. I have taken the necessary precautions to protect them. Raccoons and opossums are necessary for our environment, the ignorance coming from the comments are just cruel. I guess your the guy who does 45 in a 25 and hits someone's dog or cat with no regrets. Obviously this is more for the cold comments below....when we make a decision to buy farm animals and you decide to put a coup as far away from your house, (which is normal) you should expect something to try and get at your chickens. Raccoons and opossums have no earthly clue these animals are pets. Most chickens roost really high in trees and not close to the ground. Do not say raccoons and opossums are dirty creatures with diseases, they are cleaner than the average human. Yes, they can carry the rabies virus, but so can a dog or cat. Chickens are far more dirty than you think. They eat "EVERYTHING" including shit. Do your homework, stop humanizing animals. They are not human and are not having a conversation like "Hey, look, Bob bought some chickens let's go kill them", they are animals trying to survive. They don't understand taxes, property lines and pets. I am sure I will get some crap for writing this.....but I can't stand ignorance nor do I find it ok to kill things just because.

nice job

curse these raccoons…i’m dealing with a problem right now. see how they are though? he leaves his friend lmao oh well says a lot abt them as a whole

Are raccoons edible?

Revenge!

Ugh just had a raccoon rip one of my pullets through the fence. I’m so upset I knew that SOB was going to be a problem I have scared him off on several occasions. Honestly I thought my set up was tough enough but my chicken must have been in the run and too close to the fence. 🥲 of course the camera wasn’t recording for some reason..

did the Raccoon bite off the chicken head and just left them there

Great videos, justice served.

I caught a fox that just got in and killed only one chicken but I turned that fox into hamburger for hurting my girls but now I'm having problems with hawks and have lost two and unfortunately its against the law to hurt hawks wich is total bs.

It’s harsh, but this is reality. Kill everything that gets near your food source/ animals. You took on the responsibility of doing so when you bought or raised them then penned them up. I used to think that there were ways to solve the problem with thousands of dollars spent only to lose more animals. Put the predators down period or the loss is on you. I say this to myself as well. Once again, it’s harsh but reality is reality whether you want it to be or not.

I just don’t get it! How in the fuck do these lessons need to continue being learned? Just how in the hell do people keep birds without protecting them properly?

Why didn't you have all the holes all sowed up already? Why didn't you close the coop door at night? How did the mother chicken get out the other end the first night of attack? If the mother could get out a predator can get in as well. Wow ! You people really didn't do your homework and your chickens paid the price for laziness. Wood swells and rots, wire rusts and weakens , staples and nails can come loose so checking often is important if you don't won't to feed predators with your chickens. Thanks for the video it shows how predators are persistent and they don't always kill for food but for fun. I give you credit for showing your stupidity or laziness on full display. Are all your holes closed up enough for weasels, martins, minks and rats?

If you would have built a secure coop and run based on thorough research and the benefit of the mistakes of others, you are unlikely to experience any predator losses. Your continued failure to secure the coop shows me you like the KZfaq traffic more than your chickens.

You shouldn’t kill em , if you give em a little beating and release em they’ll never ever come back .

stupid house

This sjows you did made secure shed some mistakes

Bad poor design by you only

I support the raccoon. Chickens are a pain, loud and irritating, raccoons got sensitive hearing. Is that even legal, putting traps around ur chickens. You are luring the racoon with your chickens... Ur at fault here, not the raccoon.

inhumane trapping. Better close your chicken house (can also go inside by the egg box)

i used live traps! there are good pest / like cats /opposoms they eat snakes, rodents not really known to eat chickens i have killed at least 9 raccoons in the past two years