It looks like the attack started closer to the house and slightly uphill from where the body was found due to the presence of feathers there. She was ultimately found under some low hanging branches (~3ft off the ground) with most of one side ripped off and two areas of "feather explosion"...
My watering setup: Its a 2 gallon bucket hanging below the nesting box with 2' of flexible vinyl tubing attached to about 18" of PVC with 2 drinker cups.
We were expected to have temps dip into the 20's and not get much above freezing so I decided to get one of these...
I've got a chicken who will sleep in the nesting box if we let her. The nesting box that she uses is at floor level and both roosts are higher than the nesting box. She started doing this about a month ago after using the roosts like normal. If we push her out of the nesting box before it...