Canine or Raptor?

[Peaches Lee]

I'm so sorry for your loss!

I would think canine would eat everything. Would a duck be too big for an owl?

Raccoons are pretty nasty predators. I had one catch one of my hens in the barn and take her up into the hay loft.

Sorry, I'm not much help.

 

[cmom]

So sorry for your loss. Owls mostly take the heads from my experience. Probably the fox especially since you said there was a trail of feathers. I have several game cameras up on my property and most nights when the predators roam here I see one on at least one of the cameras, mostly fox or coyote. Good luck...

 

[cmom]

Most of my cameras are identical to this one and they take very good night pictures. They are manufactured under different names. I do use my cameras in the video mode. I have a converter on my computer to convert the video into images.
https://www.amazon.com/RINKMO-Secur...ords=game+trail+camera&qid=1637419473&sr=8-49

There is a coyote and also another camera. You can see the light from the other camera.

This is a view from the other camera.

 

[BabesDucks]

I'm so sorry for your loss!

I would think canine would eat everything. Would a duck be too big for an owl?

Raccoons are pretty nasty predators. I had one catch one of my hens in the barn and take her up into the hay loft.

Sorry, I'm not much help.

My Canada Goose would have scared off most predators. What would have attacked even with a giant Canada goose nearby?

 

[CoconutCoffee]

I had an EE fly into a dog pen once and the only thing left was the breast bone. I didn't exactly look around the yard after I got what was left of her away but I didn't see any organs in that area, just feathers.

 

[BabesDucks]

I'm so sorry for your loss!

I would think canine would eat everything. Would a duck be too big for an owl?

Raccoons are pretty nasty predators. I had one catch one of my hens in the barn and take her up into the hay loft.

Sorry, I'm not much help.

Thank you. I was wondering about whether or no a canine would eat the organs. I don’t know.

 

[cmom]

Thanks. It was a short trail. What does the crime scene look like after a fox kill??

 

[cmom]

I tend to think fox.

 

[BabesDucks]

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I didn’t have near that many feathers. Did you have some clumps of feathers stuck to skin? Also, are those organs or blood?

 

[BabesDucks]

I tend to think fox.

I’m leaning toward that as well based on the condition of the feathers. I did find ONE long feather with a sort of “Z” in it as if plucked by an owl.
why do you think fox?