@Campine
That sounds like a pretty brutal and definitive blow for your rooster. I have been around very few roosters so I am unfamiliar with their behavior. Is that typical or do you think it is a learned behavior? Has the rooster every tried to repeat that kind of behavior since it...
Hate to do it but I have to second the bird of prey theory for your latest chicken death. The puncture wound on your rooster is very likely from the back hallux of a bird of prey. Often when attacking raptors go for the head to control their prey. The crime scene also sounds very typical of a...