missing chickens

Update: The Rhode Island Red returned, but no clue where the other two are. Hoping they decided to roost in a tree. I have 3 ladies missing in action right now. Normally I let them out in the morning for a few hours. They never wander off the property. I am on 5 acres of mostly wooded hilly...

Feathers are all over yard. Small and fluffy. Chickens are missing and have been for days, right following a rainstorm after having been let out of the coup. Let me know your thoughts on the photo I’ve attached. Thanks. Devastated and could use the feedback.

Our 11 chickens free range during the day on our 4 acres of wooded land. They always come back around 7pm, hang out in the backyard for about an hour and then put themselves to bed around 8pm Around 7, there was only 3 chickens in the yard, our 2 roosters and our only Easter Egger My husband...

We have an automatic door for the coop. I only had 7 to begin with as were just starting out. They are 18 weeks old today. I had my original 3 cockerels and 4 hens. We were letting nature do it’s thing and let the head honcho choose his victims instead of picking them off ourselves...

I don't know what it is, but there have been three chickens between 8 weeks and 12weeks old go missing by something. I assume that same thing went after my 9 week old duck and caused damage to her eye... it's all happened in the afternoon/evening time (after 4 pm) the first one happened two days...

Hello to all my chicken friends. I should be posting photos of my new Coop (which has finally been build - although the paint is just white primer as yet - and it's been in my backyard for about two months now), (i've just gotten so busy)... My three "regulars" 2 hens and a rooster had been...

Over the past few days, my chooks have gone missing! Almost every night when I go to close the coop, a chicken is missing. No feathers, blood, nothing. It's like they just vanished. I see one during the day, and at around 8 when im out to count them, it's gone. I'v lost 7 bantams, and 2 large...

Hi everyone, 2 months ago. 7 of my pullets went missing whilst free ranging. 5 went missing, then 1 and then another. No signs of a predator taken them or anything. So its unknown as to what happened to them. They had also been successfully free ranging for weeks prior. Has everyone ever...

Came home an hour after my husband had left (everything was fine then) and my flock was up by the road which they never do and one hen was missing. Then my two ducks were nowhere to be seen and they are always with the chickens. So I start walking our property and then check our brook. I found...

Hi Everyone, I have had some issues with my chickens going missing without a trace. It got me thinking. I would love to hear some of the predators you have encountered and how you prevented them from returning? Thank you

I'm really worried about one of my girls. I have five hens and I let them free range during the day, usually when I'm home. I let them out earlier today around 11 am. About an hour later I went out and saw only four! I have a bell on my back door that I ring and they come running (they get...

Guys... I feel like the most horrible chicken mama. I started in March with three sweet little chicks that I grew into almost full grown hens. 3 weeks ago we lost two birds to my neighbors dog (my chickens got into their yard). Norbert, the remaining chicken has been a trooper. Sunday (two...

my GSD has killed two of my chickens. It’s been in a 2 year time frame but that’s just because I am VERY cautious. He was out back today bc it’s 70 here in NY and I wanted him to be able to lay on the deck in the sun. Well it turned crummy and windy. I was taking a nap in my room when I heard...

ok. so, i went to check on my chickens to close their coop up and saw that 2 of my younger isa browns are missing! i'm extremely afraid because the 2 girls that are missing are my favorites. they are around 14 weeks i'd say and i really dont wanna loose my girls. i want complete honesty...

Alright.. We had 8 chickens as of two days ago. The day before yesterday we walked outside and suddenly had 5. In the apast We've had the rare dead chicken every once in awhile, once we found evidence one was taken from the coop by a small critter. Had 2 half grown chickies die, but that's not...

We have over forty chickens on our farm. I noticed all but one of my Ameraucanas are missing. There is no sign of predators. We have had coyotes in the past, it's pretty obvious when they take a chicken, same for hawks and owls. We are in the desert of Nevada, so any predators leave lasting...