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Ohhh that's right I forgot about that. The one where the chickens lived in "bear country" (so yeah, they probably regarded bears the way mine regard squirrels! lol). I agree with you on the rest of what you say, above. Thanks for the input @ashcons !

The only marketer involved was me, when I convinced my husband to build it. 😄 Of course, we designed it to accommodate 4 birds as per our Town's specs for keeping backyard chickens in a suburban setting. We've had birds in that coop for years and never had an injury, death, illness or predator...

Based on input I received on the other thread, and the evidence, my assumption is that the surviving chickens pecked the feathers out of the corpse after the incident in an attempt to wake the alpha chicken. The idea that the two males fought each other to death is one of our earlier guesses...

If you bothered to look at my photos in the other thread you'd see there wasn't an "open coop". The chickens in the coop were unharmed; it was the chickens in the run that died. As I said over and over, there was no breach, no digging, no damage on the run or coop side. No sign of forced...

There is no chicken feed in the run it's always kept up in the enclosed coop. If a raccoon did it, why are there no visible wounds? Out of curiosity, did you look at my other thread where I posted photos of the coop and run as they appeared after the incident? There were no gaps in the...

I found two of my 4 chickens dead this morning and no blood, no sign of breach of the coop or run, no sign of digging, no bent hardware cloth or hole in hardware cloth. No scratches, scrapes, or evidence of shaking of the coop. Their waterer was still standing upright on a brick inside the run...