Paw print identification please - raccoon or fisher?

[Jaye]

Hoping someone can identify what this print belongs to ...

It was on one of the cross rails inside the run this morning. :o
This tells us we need to finish installing the rest of the welded wire roof panels over the uncovered part of the run ASAP.

[Ontario Chick]

How big is the board?
Fisher print looks like a cat print, so not that.
Whatever it is, I wouldn't want it on the inside of run.

[Shnookie]

According to my Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens this looks like a raccoon track - the long fingers. A fisher track is similar to a dog track, but smaller and with 5 toes.

[Jaye]

Thanks, Shnookie. That's what I thought/feared too.
OC, I couldn't agree more - I really don't want it on the inside of the run. The rail is a 4 x 4 I believe, same as the base and corner posts.

[ross]

This help ?

[Happy]

@ross does that bottom pic mean you're loaded up to drive to Jaye's house?
Good luck Jaye-guess you have your weekend work cut out for you.

[Jaye]

LOL, Happy!

Yes, thanks, Ross. I would say it's definitely a raccoon. Hoping the rain holds off so that we can get the panels installed. The reason why it hasn't been done before now is that we have a three-forked tree in our run that has been a design challenge. We've tried several different solutions but none of them worked. We think we've finally come up with something that will. Fingers crossed.

[ross]

Haha Happy that's what it used to look like before I got out the spray can . Not sure how pic got there sometimes these bent arthritic fingers click on things I don't see . Luck

[Killerbunny]

@ross that chart is great. WOnder if they could make it a sticky when they are done vacationing?

[windwalkingwolf]

It's raccoon, a big fat one that probably has a lot of friends