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What size were the chicks? With a hawk hit, you usually see a pile of feathers. If you see nothing, they would have had to have been small enough for the hawk to carry away. Otherwise you would have found part of the carcass on the ground. If they are totally missing I would suspect a fox...

It could very well have been a dog, however chickens are pretty smart when it comes to predators. Even if they are used to and get along with your dogs, they will still be wary if a strange dog comes along.

I'll admit to not knowing much about otters, but wouldn't you have to live near water to have them. I would have thought they would kill animals around water including fish and perhaps water birds before they would invade a chicken coop Waiting for what the web cam shows.

If people put a general location on their avatar it might help in that certain predators are more likely in certain areas. Coyotes and foxes usually carry the entire body away unless they come back later to take and cache them. An opossum might eat only part of the birds and some raccoons, too...

If you find out how, please let us know. Foxes are the worst predators IMHO. Any weakness in your system, they will exploit. They can avoid traps that easily catch raccoons and opossums. They seem able to avoid bullets, You can be home and outside with dogs all day, put the dogs away and run...

hmmmmmm, you need a webcam. Wonder if you have more than one type of predator? Minks are in the weasel family. I know they will kill chickens, but do they eat them or just suck the blood? I had a relative lose rabbits to weasels who got into the pens through minute holes and the rabbits...

I'm trying to picture your set up. I can visualize a coon or cat getting in, but how is it getting out? What about a hawk or other bird of prey?

Could be raccoon or I'm thinking you could have two kinds of predators. Through the fence sounds very raccoon like, but carried away could be a fox. I read somewhere under a pound a hawk will carry away. Over two, usually not and between one and two iffy.

I'm thinking any of the predators you mentioned wouldn't have made the entire chicken disappear. Was the top of the run open? If the bird was only five weeks old and small perhaps a hawk carried him away or a fox.

Foxes, especially if they have young or certain times of the year will kill many chickens, Only what looks like a blizzard of feathers remains. They will store the extras in a cache for eating later.

Unfortunately we have #%^&*()*&^%$ foxes. and they have the utter audacity to go in our upper driveway, away from the yard. Their scat is similarly shaped to our shelties'., but is slightly smaller in size and full of seeds. Speaking from experience, if you set a trap it will probably...

How large was the scat? Could be a fox or do you have coyotes?

I'm really stumped so am subscribing to find out more of what it is. Something that can fit through a size of the dug hole. Just a thought. Can't see a cat digging like that...they would shred or tear to get in, and I can't see them eating the larger bones. They will eat mice bones, but...

Any possibility your pullet didn't go in for the night? If she was taken with absolutely no sign, any chance of a human predator? (Unfortunately there are chicken thieves.)

X 2 because of the digging