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Again, thanks for everyone's input. It has been very helpful. After speaking with friends who have raised chickens for years and the responses I got here I agree that the predator was apparently a large bird of prey; hawk or owl. I examined the scene this morning and discovered a collection of...

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking a mink, but from the replies it may be a bird of prey. I hear owls hoot all of the time from the woods around our farm. I will be checking the one hen that was killed, but not eaten for bite marks in an effort to determine what killed her.

Would a hawk or other bird of prey go under a crawl space where the one partially eaten chicken was found? I have two roosters in the yard, a barred rock and a large Rhode Island red. Neither appeared to have been injured.

We lost two of our hens this evening to a predator, that I'm guessing is a weasel of some kind. I had been working in the fenced back yard where the chickens were all day. I left less than two hours before sun set. Upon my return home maybe a half an hour after sunset, I discovered that I was...