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Hi, update. Still no ID on culprit but I've stop the chickens from sleeping outside. I redid the dusk to dawn door, think it was a bad light sensor. After door was working again I removed their usual outside roost branch's and the rest sorted itself out. The hens found their way back inside the...

Would well fed squirrel size rats take down a chicken? They laugh at the largest rats traps, I might order a Uhlik Repeater trap for the tune of $260. Or poison but im worried the chickens or other local wildlife would find it

I'm in board with the weasel theory. Ive never seen a weasel in person but I guess they can be here. I have a creek about 200 yards down the hill. Camera batteries are charged, and I'm going to set it up but I've always put the new control board in my desk to dawn door and am going to retrain...

Well it wasn't the rooster. I found it dead this morning, so something climbed up 6 ft of bird cloth killed the rooster got him to the ground and pulled its head off. The camera unfortunately also died, but before this happened

Trail cam placed in coop

They free range in the yard regularly. But locked up for now until I figure out predator situation. It's been 3 years without issue til this week

How about a video! I'm in PA, local predators would be owls, hawks, falcons, racoons, fox, coyote... Attacks have been morning. One the other day around lunch time with me outside working on house 150' away, didn't hear anything odd.

We have last 3 hens in as many days. Hens in hiding positions under logs or in their dust "cave" with heads pulled off laying nearby. No other signs of trama. My coop/run is impenetrable, no signs of damage to bird cloth, no holes larger than a mouse hole. This leaves me to believe something...