MissHenrietta
Chirping
i know this has been asked before, but I’m curious as to what I might be dealing with. I free-range my hens and have one rooster with them. In the past three days I’ve lost 5 chickens....first hen, no sign of anything whatsoever...today I came home from work and saw a pile of feathers and noticed two hens were gone, one being my absolute favorite sapphire gem, Gemma...I followed the feathers, a few piles here and there, and found her laying in the woods with just a hole through her abdomen..nothing else was “eaten” if anything at all...I proceeded through our 7 acres and found another two piles of feathers (different bird - white leghorn), but no body or anything. I’ve just put our trail camera back up in hopes to find whatever is doing this. I’m absolutely devastated. Any ideas? Hawk? Fox? We live sort of in the woods so I know it can be anything, but I’ve definitely seen a number of hawks flying over. I intend to keep them fenced in for the next few days.