Suburban Permaculture Project

I'm sorry its really awful to go out in the morning and find this kind of mayhem. This sounds just like the work of racoons, we have lost a number of chickens and the scene is always just like this. Do they allow trapping in your area? We've succesfully trapped 8-9 racoons. If it is a racoon and you were sucessfully able to trap it you could make your chickens safe again at least until some other coon moves in, you would also at least know what you are up against. After a year we have finally quit lossing chickens to racoons. It has taken double reinforcing the coop, trapping the racoons and adding geese to the barn yard to act as sentinals at night to keep our chickens safe.

Good luck, a sturdy more secure coop sounds like a very good idea.