What takes a chicken during the day and leaves no feathers or blood behind?

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Popcorn Mcgee

Popcorn Mcgee

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Mar 26, 2012
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We let our free rangers out yesterday morning and our smallest, a polish hen, never came back to the roost last night. My husband looked all over our property in the rain last night. He looked everywhere they roam and found no evidence of an attack. No body, no feathers, no blood. We did see a stray cat in our front pasture hunting along side a brush pile. Will a cat carry away a small polish like that or should we be watching for a different type of predator?
 
I have a veteran hunting cat that stalks right along my chickens but never messed with them once they are adults...he tries to eat them as babies though....most cats won't mess with adult chickens
 
I had the same thing happen a month or so ago. I have red production girls . They are about 11 month old. 6 out in the morning only 5 came to roost at night. Could find no feathers anywhere. A week before we had an eagle flying at roof top level around the house. It has been my belief that she was the culprit. Fox will keep coming back till none were left.
 
It was a very small blue polish hen. She just started laying about a month ago too:( Thanks for all the info. I think we'll keep them in their run for a while. Our neighbor said that they wandered pretty far into a neighboring field yesterday so what ever happened probably went down over there. We do have a pretty bad coyote population where we live, and they do travel through that field our neighbor spotted our chickens in.
 
Popcorn Mcgee said:
It was a very small blue polish hen. She just started laying about a month ago too:( Thanks for all the info. I think we'll keep them in their run for a while. Our neighbor said that they wandered pretty far into a neighboring field yesterday so what ever happened probably went down over there. We do have a pretty bad coyote population where we live, and they do travel through that field our neighbor spotted our chickens in.
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You could well have your answer there.
 
Sounds like the rain most likely washed away the evedince left behind so there is no telling what got her.

Sorry for your loss
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