🥲 what eats a month old chick and only leaves legs?

[Ponywonka]

We found the legs and nothing else! 6 week old chick gone in the middle of the day at a busy facility!!! Any ideas- I’m so sad!!!

 

[aart]

a busy facility

What exactly does this mean?
Were chicks in a secure enclosure?

My first thought is a rat.

Might help to know......
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[Ponywonka]

We are on the west coast of bc near the us border. We are a large farm in the middle of summer camps with kids volunteers and people everywhere- baby was killed between 9 am and 1 pm!!!

 

[aart]

We are a large farm in the middle of summer camps with kids volunteers and people everywhere- baby was killed between 9 am and 1 pm!!!

What does the chicks enclosure look like...or were they free ranging??

 

[ViKulik]

No matter the circumstances my opinion is... It's always raccoons, the husband or the butler

 

[Ponywonka]

Our birds are enclosed in a large coop with enclosed outdoor run that has a predator proof netting roof.

 

[MTR]

Were the legs in the run?

 

[Ponywonka]

Yes they were in the coop… I totally don’t get it and am worried about losing more of my babies

 

[aart]

Our birds are enclosed in a large coop with enclosed outdoor run that has a predator proof netting roof.

What kind of netting and run walls...material and hole size.
Pics would help immensely here.

 

[MTR]

Yes they were in the coop… I totally don’t get it and am worried about losing more of my babies

I would be concerned too.
Can you put a trail cam in the run?
No feathers just the feet - inside an enclosed run. That is hard for me to reconcile- I’d lock the doors in case it’s a teen or something. All the animals I’d think of should have left evidence of entry.