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I would say fox.

I still say weasel, in my experience they will bite off the heads, tear up the body, and occasionally take a young bird with them. Raccoons will take the body and leave a pile of feathers, but no remains.

I would say weasel judging from the size of the hole, and the fact that there were pieces left. Weasels can squeeze through most mesh, even chicken wire. What i've found to work be at keeping them out is wrapping the pen/coop in 1/2 inch hardware cloth. You can also fold the wire out a bit at...

Also, try adding more distractions into the pen so the older birds peck at the chicks less. I've found that a cabbage or a few apples suspended from somewhere high up keep my birds occupied for days and they don't fight as much.

I would say this might be a weasel, they often just eat the heads or dismember the chickens and leave them. If a chicken gets hurt enough to bleed the other chickens WILL peck at it no matter what originally caused the injury. I don't think a skunk would be the culprit, they eat eggs and already...

Weasel would be my best guess for this, because they can fit through very small holes. I've even had them squeeze through chicken wire in the past. Try baiting a small trap with raw meat to catch it, and cover all chicken wire or openings with 1/2 inch hardware cloth.

Definitely a weasel or a mink. Try baiting a small trap with some sort of meat to catch it, and try using 1/2 inch hardware cloth instead of, or on top of chicken wire to keep it out of the pen/coop.

The second chick of mine that hatched died :( 20/20 fertile and developed, 2/20 hatched, 1/20 living

Since my LG incubator killed 17 chicks this time, and 12 last time i'm on the market for a new one. Any recommendations for good incubators in the $100-200 range?

I would guess something close to a partridge silkie. Not entirely sure though.....

Final hatch count: 2 out of 20 The rest were fully developed, but they got shrink wrapped somehow and couldn't hatch.

A horrible LG incubator that doesn't have a constant temp or humidity.

If there is a sudden humidity drop during lockdown, especially if some of the eggs have already pipped, the membrane can draw tight around the chick and dry out so the chick can have trouble, or can't get out of the egg.

Ok, I have good and bad news. The good news is that the chick I assisted last night is doing well. The bad news is that out of the other 18 eggs left in the incubator, one is alive. The rest apparently got shrink wrapped like 2 days before hatch, due to my crappy incubator. I'm hoping the last...

I have one chick that I assisted... Don't know if any more will hatch because the humidity fluctuated a lot, and some of the chicks were shrink wrapped or drowned.

Ok, I just assisted the other chick since the membrane had dried out and it was stuck. It's now cheeping its little head off as it dries out in the bator. I think it's a silkie cross or a mille flour d'uccle bantam cross ...looking forward to seeing it dried out.

never mind.

Since my first pip was almost 24 hours ago, and it hadn't done anything I decided to assist. Sadly I opened the hole a bit more, and found a dead, perfectly developed, shrink wrapped chick. The other pip is doing well however, has made a big hole, and is chirping away. None of the other eggs are...

Now I'm jealous! Did everyone else just have early hatches? I only have 2 external pips so far, and no one has started zipping.

Thanks!