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  1. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    I've seen feral cats and skunks do that, problem I had identifying what took out 9 hens fall before last was the attacks were all different times of days and different carcasses found, we live trapped and moved 6 feral cats and the attacks stopped
  2. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    another usually less pricy option is check for local bee keepers. we found one we trade eggs for every once in a while when we need raw honey. trading off works pretty good
  3. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    would clean her wound and use wound kote on it. if ya have live traps I would suggest trying that, we weren't seeing any signs of what was taking my year old hens took that and we found out what it was right away once live traps were set, signs were all over the board for 3 weeks about what it...
  4. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    anything in the weasle family will do what your describing, and they will kill for sport, had a neighbors ferret get out and killed them just for the hell of it. so might wanna rethink possibility there. They left the birds chewed and dead but not eaten or anything
  5. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    most likely if it's day time too , feral cats , Caught them as had em disappearing day and night, was a pack of 6 adult feral cats with 2 younger ones that had come into the area.
  6. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    Coons would go after the smaller chickens before the ducks, find it interesting they went after the bills of them though, makes me think canine species the cats went into duck pen put left them alone. Talk to local animal control or wildlife managment maybe and borrow some live traps but bait...
  7. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    Might be something smaller and your using the wrong bait to catch it. In the future if something like that happens document it with close up photos and maybe the wildlife people can help identify it from something in the pictures. The reason I couldn't figure out my predator as it didn't fit...
  8. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    lost a second one while she was out free ranging, getting a trap, something tried to pull her into it's den in the ground out in the pasture, all we found were the legs 1 wing and a bunch of feathers neatly piled around the entrance. can't see inside the den but it's kinda a flattened oval...
  9. slordaz

    Poultry Predator Identification

    not sure we just lost one similarly, head was taken off and was ripped completely open and partially eaten inside and left in the hen house feathers were still on her, little to no blood, the other 16 hens are fine, did find 3 eggs smashed in the nest, so thinking racoon but not sure. found no...
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