Thank you for the advice everyone. I checked the roof and found no snakes, but our neighbor's yard is a total mess so it may have been a rat living in there. I sincerely doubt it may have been one of our hens as they have never shown aggression towards the chicks.
They never showed any aggression to anyone, including the babies, when I was around. They are friendly to human and chicken babies, they don't mind our seven dogs except for a minor fear, and they are always kind to everyone. The only animal we've ever caught eyeing up our chickens was the...
Thank you for the detailed response. The chicks were about six days old at the incident. There are no predatory snakes or snakes in general I know of that could have caught them since we live in a suburban environment in the Central Valley. There is also a roof over the coop, so they are safe...
The largest gap is a tiny hole under the outer walls, largest thing that could get through is probably a gopher or small mouse, maybe a rat, but even so, there is no way they could have gotten into their sleeping area, as it is a completely shut coop with no holes.
Me and my family (Me, mom, and 6 siblings) searched the entire yard for about an hour, and found not a drop of blood, as well as heard nothing, and none of our hens had a trace of blood on them, and the hens barely acknowledged them.
One of our baby chicks disappeared. We recently adopted six, but after a few days of testing how they interact with our adult chickens, one of them went missing with no trace. Our coop has ten adult chickens and now 5 baby chicks. There is a steel fence around the sides, the walls are secure as...
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