I just lost two chickens to a ringtail. I found them in the coop, both decapitated, but not eaten elsewhere. We recently had snow so I searched for tracks. I've had a bobcat kill chickens before even with an electric fence! Anyway, since I couldn't find tracks I went in the coop and started...
We live in the far north of California, under Mt Shasta. We have two acres and a creek running through our property which is wooded as we are at 3,000 ft elevation. I grew up on a ranch and we had chickens. We built a pretty secure coop and fenced it well, including a solar powered electric...