Thank you all for the replies and info. I really appreciate it. I don't have any photos of him. We buried him already. We are on the East coast of NC. We are in a neighborhood and we all have at least 8 feet high privacy fences. I doubt it was a stray dog for that reason. I am leaning more...
We came home today and found our hens hiding on one side of the yard and our rooster in a pile of his feathers, killed on the other side of the yard. He had a large wound near his thigh and that was it. No bleeding really. I feel like if I had found him sooner, we might could have saved him...