Thank you for all your advice. I appreciate it. I don't even know what a weasel looks like but fortunately I have a friend who has a trap. So, hopefully we'll catch it quickly. What can I use for bait??
Sorry for the delay in my responding. I had posted the original message before we had removed it from the coop. The loss of feathers was actually not loss of feathers. The way the chicken was laying, with it's head bent almost under it, made it appear that way. I should have waited to examine it...
A couple of weeks ago, we lost a hen. My husband said it was lying under the part the hens go in to lay eggs, inside the coop. I didn't see it but he said it didn't look like anything had gotten in the coop. Today, my daughter went to feed our hens and found their favorite pet Bantam dead. It is...