Skunks as predators?

[Bolfreak]

If you have one, set up a game camera. You may be surprised at the number and kind of animals that come through your area over a given period of time. And not every individual animal comes back immediately. Many larger animals are believed to have circuits that they travel over a week or two.
My general point is: you may very well be killing a completely innocent animal. They do exist. But the niche that animal fills in the ecosystem will be filled by another animal. One that may not be so innocent. For this reason I do not advocate killing every animal that walks onto one's property or by one's chicken coop. It is not a popular position; it opens me to ridicule. But I hope that chicken keeping exposes us all to the fact that animals are individuals. I advocate having a secure run and coop.

I put all of my birds in at night and other than the occasional snake, nothing gets in.
I have had trouble with my turkey hens laying in the woods and losing eggs by not finding them in time. Trail cam to the rescue: daytime egg loss of very fresh egg with a hole pecked in the shell was actually crow! (Other option was roadrunner so cam ruled them out).
Night cam footage revealed a raccoon going directly to the nest every night (and my barn cat?). So I set up my trap close by with a duck egg (not donating turkeys to the cause) and this morning I caught a skunk. I actually just let it go, maybe a mistake but I don’t think the skunks affect my flock. Now a raccoon would be another story…3S in that case.
Will I regret letting it go? I tend to think they’re opportunistic vs evil incarnate like raccoons.