Attack

[african chickens]

so I just got home from school and went around to check on the birds I go around behind the barn where we house our guinea fowl and see a lot of feathers like a lot and I'm like this isn't good as I expected there was a guinea hen body in the middle of the cage now we really need to some repairs like there are holes everywhere but I have no idea what happened there are puncture wounds on the bird's side but besides that, the head was removed it was about 2 feet away and completely messed up

 

[neo71665]

Most of the time a removed head is a bird of prey of some sort. It's not uncommon for a coon to do it also.

Owls often remove the head and go for the brain. I'm gonna lean torward that is your problem.

 

[Tonyroo]

Animal attacked.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Owl most likely, but maybe a raccoon. You could do a double layer like two layers of fencing.

 

[african chickens]

not sure how an owl would get in uh I was thinking raccoon because we have lots of them
i will get pics of the bird for better idea
this is a old photo of the cage

 

[neo71665]

Yeah with the setup covered and chain link it was a coon or possum. You really need to cover the botom of that setup in hardware cloth to stop anything from reaching in.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Ok probably raccoon then and in that case you could concrete the bottom to stop digging, you could like I said and another layer of fence.

 

[african chickens]

along the bottom, there is 4 feet tall chicken wire and there is a large hole in the back top right corner

 

[african chickens]

ok so I closed the birds in they are locked in the barn the cage is the same as it was last night just no birds I put the body back in there and drizzled some wet cat food around it before putting our trail camera facing the body