SamLockwood
Songster
- Sep 29, 2022
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Something took one of my chickens yesterday, I'm thinking afternoon to dusk. Didn't notice her gone until I did the nightly head count and was one hen short, and didn't find the kill site until sunup.
They free range in an area with a 5' high wire fence. There's no really large gaps for something the size of a coyote to get through.
The strike zone is in a wooded area at least 20 feet from the fence line. There's a 3' circle of feathers there.
Then the there's a roughly straight trail from there that runs a shallow converging diagonal along the fence line 55 to 60 feet.
Then the trail abruptly turns right crosses the fence line, and goes another 12 or 14 feet towards the Yellow Creek and ends.
So I'm wondering if it was a large flyer (the chicken was a fully grown standard size) or a coyote was able to leap over a 5' fence as there's no gaps or any spaces big enough for one to crawl under the whole perimeter.
Or is it something else? This is North Georgia, FYI.
They free range in an area with a 5' high wire fence. There's no really large gaps for something the size of a coyote to get through.
The strike zone is in a wooded area at least 20 feet from the fence line. There's a 3' circle of feathers there.
Then the there's a roughly straight trail from there that runs a shallow converging diagonal along the fence line 55 to 60 feet.
Then the trail abruptly turns right crosses the fence line, and goes another 12 or 14 feet towards the Yellow Creek and ends.
So I'm wondering if it was a large flyer (the chicken was a fully grown standard size) or a coyote was able to leap over a 5' fence as there's no gaps or any spaces big enough for one to crawl under the whole perimeter.
Or is it something else? This is North Georgia, FYI.