I have had my girls for a year. Seven wonderful happy girls Golden Sex Links....I raised them from little 3 days old chicks. I am beside myself, sick with worry and so very sad. I live on a horse farm. I have a large 10 stall barn in which I have made one of the stalls into the girls coop. The sleep and lay theirs eggs as well as eat their meals there. They free range during the day and spend a lot of time we me near the house and in the garden with me and my little dogs and cat of which they were raised with. They all even lay in the sun together, eat their snacks together, and go on walks together with me. The other day I went our to the barn to feed lunch to the horses and 3 girls were gone and I found one very badly hurt. Her tail feather were pulls out, her neck feathers and under her wing feathers were gone as well. I found the other 3 girls dead about 200' from the barn in a patch of trees. Something had eaten part of them. For the last week I did not let the girls out of the barn.....until yesterday.....for 10 minutes while I ran to the house to get the dogs....when I returned another girl was killed and I found her in the same place I found the other....I am sick and blame myself for her death....Her name was Cupcake and she had the cutest curly tail feathers....I miss my girls like you would any family pet...They all had names, sat on my lap, came to the house to see me.....Please help.....I don't want to loose the rest of my babies....what could be killing them....Thank you, Claudia