predator attack

  1. Bettyboop7499

    HOW TO CATCH A THIEF...PLEASE HELP....

    Please help me identify what could possibly be taking my chickens. I've lost three...and this morning I'm completely stunned! First one I found a tuft of down feathers, no blood and no other signs of struggle. The second one I heard the chickens frightened and they were flying toward the...
  2. onyx2011

    Can a single hen integrate with a group of chicks?

    I went out earlier this evening to lock up my flock. To my surprise, only a single hen was roosting. After nearly an hour, I finally found the remaining 3 chickens. Or what was left of them. Feathers were everywhere and only a singe corpse was left. I honestly am really upset over this, and it...
  3. M

    Missing 5 ducks over night

    i had six ducks! All mallards about 3 months old. Fully feathered out in a run. The run was pretty secure and inside my hens open topped fenced in run. I went out in the morning and was missing all 6 ducks! No feathers or sign of a struggle! Devastated by the lose I went searching to see if they...
    • Mseager
    • Thread
    • ducks missing ducks predator predator attack
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Ducks
  4. EggMan207

    Just lost 6 of my hens to a fox

    I just took a devastating blow to my flock, I lost 6 of my new hens (11 weeks old) to what I believe to be a fox attack (It could also have been a fisher cat, bobcat, or possibly a coyote...a hawk doesn't seem like the likely culprit where took 6 of them.)... They were in a pasture (that was...
  5. vivaciouswoman

    Murder(?) mystery in Michigan

    We’ve lost a bunch of our girls to foxes, but we’ve ben fencing and slowing that down pretty well by keeping the girls (and 3 roosters—2 Easter Eggers and a massive Black Jersey Giant mix) in their run until after noon. Everything was cool when I checked at 3:00 pm today, but I just went out...
  6. kris1990

    What predator can do this

    Hey,guys,I need some help. We had a chicken that started laying on eggs outside the chicken cube. She nested on a different place in one of the barns and something snatched her in the night. We looked for the body but couldn't find it anywhere untill I found it tonight like 2 feet from where she...
  7. ColleenRyan

    Predator Advice

    I hate to be writing this. I had three pet ducks that were about a year old. A male Pekin and mallard and a female cayuga. We live in a very suburban area with lots of houses and not too much land. In the beginning of April found the females eggs taken from our yard and the hutch was open a bit...
    • ColleenRyan
    • Thread
    • dead duck ducks predator predator attack
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Ducks
  8. DempsK01

    Murder Mystery, what killed my chicks??????

    I have lost 8 baby chicks (not very young - 7-8 weeks) to an unknown predator. The run was closed, everyone inside and no holes dug into the run. All chicks left dead in the run except one outside the run (could not have left on it's own the run fencing is 6ft with nothing close to the edge they...
    • DempsK01
    • Thread
    • chicks 8 weeks murder mystery predator predator attack predator help safety
    • Replies: 46
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  9. Sakiza

    What Attacked My Coop??

    Looks like bite marks? We are thinking raccoon. One of our free range ducks, and two roosters (on three different nights) were killed and licked clean. That doesn’t sound like typical raccoon behavior to me since they were not dragged away and only one was killed three different evenings over...
    • Sakiza
    • Thread
    • coop fox fox attack fox problems predator predator attack predator help raccoon raccoon attack
    • Replies: 61
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  10. D

    I am new to keeping chicks, and unfortunately that has shown.

    A few months ago I got 7 chicks from a neighbor. The chicks did fine, they were a week old when I received them. Once their feathers came in we had put them in a coop outside. It's a small coop but was a lot of room for them. And unfortunately we hadn't put a roof/cover over the top. They have...
  11. Ellie's Herd

    HELP

    It is 10:05 p.m and I was in my bedroom whenever I heard my chickens peeping from outside. I was concerned because they never do this, so I turned the back light on and looked out the window. I saw nothing out there, but they still kept peeping loudly from what I could hear. I have the kitchen...
  12. Danadoo6

    Help, how to reintroduce one chicken to remaining “flock” of one after injury?

    Last Friday I returned home to a decimated flock. 7 Hens at 11mos old, 6 of whom were gone, only a few feathers here and there. One was healthy, as when the attack happened she was in the coop, laying. As I called for them one other lone survivor hobbled out of the woods. She was injured in...
  13. D

    Decapitated rooster

    I woke up this morning and found one of my roosters decapitated he was not eaten, his head was there his body was there, there was very little feather loss what could have done this
  14. annaBsChick

    Case Story: Goldie the Hen's Predator Attack

    Thought that this was a really cute story about a hen who was attacked by a dog - http://www.poultrydvm.com/cases/goldie
  15. cdm.ily

    New and need assistance

    I've had buff orpingtons in the past when I live in Arizona and had no issues keeping them alive. I've lived in Texas now for about 8 years and decided recently to try my luck and chickens here. My first big issue was a hawk (presumably) attacking and killing 2 of my 6 of my hens (ameraucana and...
  16. MKM

    How long does it take for wing feathers to grow back after hawk attack?

    My RIR 8 month old chicken was attacked by a hawk after it snowed. She is fine but I noticed wing feathers missing. When the snow melted I found the rest of the feathers. How long will it take for them to grow back?
  17. Emojikitten

    I don’t know what to do...

    While I was at violin lessons, a hawk flew down and decapitated my chicken. Ivy, the other, hid behind the shed and watched her only sister be killed. We are devistated. I came in to check on her this morning, and she wouldn’t come near me at all. I don’t want to hurt her, and because she is my...
  18. J

    1 hen left in flock- how to manage

    I have been raising backyard chickens (production red) for just over three years now (as pets). I only have 2 and today, sadly, I lost one to a predator. I'm not sure what got her but I'm devastated and equally concerned about my remaining girl. I have read that it's best not to only have one...
  19. A

    Hen attacked and injured

    Recently I’ve had some kind of animal, I assume a feral cat because there’s a bunch around here, terrorizing my chickens. Three days ago my oldest and favorite hen went missing and all I could find of her were six different piles of her feathers and I assumed she had died at the hands of this...
    • Ariell
    • Thread
    • animal bite infection injured hen predator attack treament
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  20. J

    Chicken predator...Looking for answers

    A friend of mine has been finding her chickens dead and not sure what’s killing them. Something is killing the chickens, decapitating them and only eating the heart and lungs...very little to no blood is left on and around the chicken. What could this be?
Back
Top Bottom