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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    Smart and subborn but very loyal. ;)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    Thank You roosterhavoc, I think tonight will be the last night to try to catch the predator on trail cam. I'm thinking I'll set it to video and then maybe we'll be able to tell more by the motions. ;)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    Thanks centrarchid, this morning after tracking the footprints across the soybean field I went to let the chickens out and noticed the same footprints in the snow circling the coop. There may be more than one intruder. :(
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    We've got a blue heeler/German pointer mix. He wasn't out after I set up the trail cam except around midnight to potty. :)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    I overlooked this on the trail cam thinking it was our dog but I measured his stride and it's about 26 inches. There are no tracks near the carcasses from my dog, only the ones mentioned previously. Does this look like something that can be identified?
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    Thank You so much, I'll be keeping this to help me in the future. ;)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    No, once they're let out in the AM they are free to run, they have a couple of pine trees, an out-building, etc. to get to safety if needed. Usually one of us is here, but not all the time. When we leave we don't close them back up in the coop and run, we just leave them out. We don't supervise...
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    I measured a couple of different parts of the tracks and they all came up at about 19 inches (see pix).
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    I'm going to go out with my tape measure right now and lay it out and photo the length as you have suggested. Hope that will help. ;)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    I think that by protecting my flock by closing the coop door at night and then letting them free range during the day as I should have been doing I wouldn't have had this problem. ;)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    I'm in Southern Indiana, about 30 miles North of Louisville, KY. :)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    Oh, there is a run attached to the coop. ;)
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    Well, that's mostly what I'm thinking, but it will also depend on the predator type and if it attempts to damage my coop to get at my hens.
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    UPDATE: Another carcass has been taken this morning. Unfortunately, My trail cam lens became snow packed, Uggghhh. But I did find some tracks that led to and from the missing carcass. I followed the incoming tracks & the outgoing tracks, they joined up in the soybean field behind my pond and...
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    Chickens(7) Killed (no heads) w/ Carcasses Scattered in Nearby Fields

    No, it was my own laziness & lack of judgment that got 7 of my flock killed. I own that and learned a lesson, I just would like to know what did the damage. After-all... "Predators going to predator"
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