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Predator Hunting => Predator Biology => Topic started by: scott on August 13, 2010, 11:53:42 AM

Title: can someone id this print.
Post by: scott on August 13, 2010, 11:53:42 AM

it is a bloody print on the inside of a chicken coop wall. it was about 18 inches from the floor, has nail marks above the print about 1/8 of on inch and slide down, very fine scratch like a needle. 

(http://i37.tinypic.com/1zbz403.jpg)

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: scott on August 13, 2010, 12:01:23 PM

the animal got into the coop, chewed the neck and head of one chicken and ate the stomach out of another, then carried one off.

(http://i37.tinypic.com/2vd0is6.jpg)

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: swarter2 on August 13, 2010, 01:09:03 PM

Looks like coon

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: muttbuster on August 13, 2010, 04:46:38 PM

Big old coon. Looks like it may have smudged his print a little giving it the odd look.

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: muttbuster on August 13, 2010, 04:50:12 PM

Scott, take that coon out asap or you won't have a chicken left in a few days. They can tear up a bunch of chickens in one night.

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: uncle buck on August 13, 2010, 07:00:45 PM

If a fox reached up the bloody print would be more then 18 inches above the floor...18 inches plus how the print looks could be a coon or maybe even a possum but I don't think it's a canine,

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: Hern on August 15, 2010, 01:53:57 PM

You have some good answers. Hard for me to tell from the picture.
Any critter from a Weasel to a Wolf could put a print 18" on wall during a high-speed chase in a chicken coop. (just bank'n off the wall)

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: foxpro51 on August 15, 2010, 04:07:56 PM

Coon

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: scott on August 15, 2010, 07:55:43 PM

1 coon removed a couple of days ago, no other chickens have been lost since.  

Title: Re: can someone id this print.
Post by: muttbuster on August 15, 2010, 07:57:42 PM

good job!