I am new to chickens and my first chicken was a free rooster named Hoss. Hoss has been sleeping in a temporary hutch out in the fenced in yard during the day and locked in at night once he put himself back in between 7-8 pm.
My husband is out of town and he is usually the one who locks Hoss up before I come home from work. I came home this evening to find the hutch empty and no blood, just a few feathers.
I walked around outside looking with a flashlight for any traces of feathers, blood or god forbid a carcass. Nothing. Behind the soon to be chicken coop was an opposum, but no sign of Hoss.
What takes a chicken and doesn't leave a mess behind?
Is there any hope that Hoss fled the attack and is roosting somewhere and I will hear him crowing in the morning?
This is Hoss in the tub during a bad storm we had on Sunday night:
My husband is out of town and he is usually the one who locks Hoss up before I come home from work. I came home this evening to find the hutch empty and no blood, just a few feathers.
I walked around outside looking with a flashlight for any traces of feathers, blood or god forbid a carcass. Nothing. Behind the soon to be chicken coop was an opposum, but no sign of Hoss.
What takes a chicken and doesn't leave a mess behind?
Is there any hope that Hoss fled the attack and is roosting somewhere and I will hear him crowing in the morning?
This is Hoss in the tub during a bad storm we had on Sunday night:
