Hi, my name is Cher and I posted a question earlier today (in the predator section) about what could have killed several of my chickens. My husband and I live in south Louisiana and we have enjoyed raising our chickens and are sick to have lost so many this week. With only two left, we'll have...
I might add that I never heard a sound and neither did my small house dog which normally barks at anything moving around outside. When we lost a hen to a dog a year or so ago they made all sorts of noise, which I heard and went to investigate. Really odd they were killed so close and I heard...
I let my 6 hens and 1 rooster out of their caged area for a couple hours (as I've done for years). Within an hour or two I discovered one hen dead with no head, then found my rooster dead with no head (he was huge and very nice), then quickly discovered piles of feathers in various locations but...