What Killed My Chicken?

[DuckieLover2014]

How strange.

 

[Trent Hardy]

Hi, we recently had something similar happen with our ducks - something pulled all the feathers off (I've got a thread in the Ducks section of the forum). If it wasn't for the borken neck I would have suggested a rat was doing it. Would fit the size requirements....

 

[islandgirl82]

Here's a great link to help you decipher what type of predator you may be dealing with.

http://www.raising-chickens.org/chicken-predators.html

Fishers are part of the weasel family as well as ermine and mink. They prey on various animals, some overlapping but their methods are similar if not the same.

 

[abgraves69]

I'm so sorry

 

[Trent Hardy]

Link to an older thread. Talks about mice eating chicken feathers....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/514531/mice-eating-my-chickens-feathers

 

[KYTinpusher]

I am so sorry for your loss.

I am thinking an overly aggressive rooster, especially if they are young. They will rip the feathers off the neck and break a hen's neck trying to breed with them. If he was in the nest box, he may have slammed her neck on the edge of the opening.

 

[DuckieLover2014]

I never would have thought that.
Sorry for the loss of your Chicken.

 

[aart]

Broken neck with no wounds....freak accident, coulda been the rooster..or feathers might have been removed after the death.

 

[Ilovefarming]

My rooster is just a cockerel. He had not crowed when the accident happened. Could he of really done it? The hen was twice as big as him........