Yes, the dog crate was open, and the feathers were inside and spilling out. I don't understand how an attacker would have created such havoc and not have hurt the bird himself.
Now the neighbor told me he's been going next door and terrorizing their little dogs. So he's shut in the dog crate...
I have a rooster - no chickens - and found him one morning with almost all his beautiful tail feathers and many of the lovely saddle feathers gone. They were all over his pen.
I've had him since December when he established himself in my backyard, and there was never anything like this.
He...
So this bearded bird could be a Rhode Island Red? This guy was hanging out in my backyard in the snow in December; can't find out whose he was. Very friendly, and so beautiful!