Found the big rooster half eaten in a field bout a 1/4 mile away. My wife talk with a neighbor and the horse properties 3/4 mile away had a Bobcat issue a couple weeks go. Im starting to think the slaughter and one carried away might be his doing. we never had issues this far into the flat land...
4 were killed in the pasture, small puncture marks up to about 1/8th to 1/4 in diameter, feathers everywhere. 1 was hiding under the horse trailer, unharmed, two are missing. the whole neighborhood is keeping an eye out for them. neighbor said they heard a ruckus about 400, 430 but didn't think...
I found one Rhody under the horse trailer and my daughter is out looking for the other two that are missing. I figure if it were coyotes they would have eaten or carried away. The chickens that died were just lying with feathers around them. I did find several small puncture marks, but could not...
Im stumped. We live in Arizona and free range our chickens in an irrigated pasture. Have a large chicken coop in the barn that all the chickens are in before it gets dark. Two days ago we lost a chicken. I just found feathers. I noticed a Harris hawk on the property a few weeks ago but didn't...