Didn't want to leave you all hanging. Good news, bad news. I set up a camera with motion sensing, set out multiple traps of different varieties, and didn't catch anything. The good news though is that I didn't lose any hens and whatever it was appears to have moved on. No more egg losses for...
Mystery partially solved. Gotta be some kinda cross. She's turned into a prolific layer of light green/blue eggs (seen here with a brown egg for color). She gets along well with the other birds, has above average intelligence, takes direction well, has a good balance of independence and...
I've got a mystery predator that is very wiley. Something has been getting eggs at night if I don't collect them all (and I presume feed). I'm in central North Carolina. My birds live in a fortress. Fully enclosed welded wire fence run to the ground, extended a foot+ horizontally and buried...
This bird is supposed to be a barred rock pullet, but looks to be at least part something else.
And here you can see her yellow legs and grey butt....
This is 12-13 weeks. Do I have the least barred rock ever, or something else? Thanks all.