Some kind of critter got into my daughters chicken coop last night. One chicken was totally devoured... nothin but a pile of feathers. Two others had their heads eaten off, but there carcasses were still in tact (mostly). And three lived through the attack. I'm assuming it was a opossum, so I set a trap to catch it. The last opossum that attacked our chickens had the misfortune of doing it while my wife was outside. She heard them screemin and ran down with the kids and our dog and scared it up a tree. I came down with a riffle and a flashlight which illuminated two eyes looking down at me from the top of the tree. I got lucky and managed to put a bullet through its nose with my first shot. 

Hopefully the trap will work and we won't lose any more tonight.