Raccoon or Weasel?

[Eliaria]

Recently I’ve had someone breaking into my coop. It’s an older shed that needs new gutter boards which is where the culprit is getting in at. At first it would only kill them and eat the neck area but the last two it cleaned out their organs (except one on each, a large round organ the size of a golf ball tossed into the middle of the coop. It climbed up the wood to get back out to the roof area and left a single paw print.

Each time their water would be bloody and sometimes an intestine would be in it as well. I suspect a raccoon but can’t tell based on the paw print. I have a live trap for a weasel that the creature dug under but didn’t enter. I plan to get a larger trap but just curious what others who have experience a mystery predator might think.

 

[50-45-1]

Sounds like maybe both the mentioned critters are possible and likley and throw in possum. Have you secured the coop at the point of breakin?

 

[lagrange chicks]

A weasel would not be able to eat much more than size of a golf ball at a time, I say coon. Sorry.

 

[Trish Howe]

Had my favorite hen killed in broad daylight when I first started. She had her throat ripped open. Two days later I saw a weasel running around in the lower meadow. A raccoon is usually a night time raider.