Chicken kindapper

[youtubeminer]

Our hen been attck and carried somewhere

there was more feathers of her but it was under a bunch of sticks the only thing I could find was this

her leg

 

[preppermom]

OMG! Just had that happen to my favorite Easter Egger last week! It was a hawk

 

[youtubeminer]

It can't be we have 10 rooster guarding them

 

[youtubeminer]

Also she was really big weighted 6 pounds

 

[Bryant Redhawk]

Youtubeminer, where on planet earth are you located? what are the normal predators found in your area?

Hawks come in different sizes and then there are eagles, Bald and Golden which can carry off mid sized dogs (25-30 lbs.)

A Coopers hawk can carry off a cocker spaniel.
A RedTailed hawk can carry off a 6 lb. rabbit.
A Harris hawk about the same as the coopers hawk
A falcon can carry off around 6 lbs. too.

I do not think it was a raptor (unless it was an owl) since most raptors are going to go high with their prize and they will then rip out the feathers before eating each part. Owls tend to eat at the kill site or near it unless they detect a predator themselves which will lead them to go to higher ground with their kill.

It was not a fox since you found evidence away from the coop but not at a den.
It was not a raccoon, they usually just kill a bird for fun.

It could have been a domestic cat. Except that you didn't find any head parts left behind.
It may be that it is a ground based predator, since you mention you have multiple roosters, but just that one fact doesn't mean they could have done anything about the attack.

I've seen Hawks a lot, we have them nesting on our land. They can stoop and leave with their catch so fast that the human eye only sees a burst of feathers settling to the ground. I've also seen them take cats and dogs, usually when they do that, they grab and land so they can use both sets of talons to make the kill, then they take off with their prize. We also have a nesting pair of Golden eagles and a nesting pair of Bald eagles. I've never seen a hawk or eagle eat at the kill site.

I hope it doesn't happen again but if it does. Close observation of the area should give some signs of what did the killing.

 

[youtubeminer]

Fox, Racoon, Hawks, Coyate, Owl I live around Massachets also something dug into the the coop at night

 

[jimbob86]

A rooster will not deter a large coon, a fox, nor a coyote.

 

[youtubeminer]

Really my rooster alerted he hens when they was a fox and a coyate

 

[jimbob86]

There's no functional difference between a hen that was "alerted" that a fox or coyote was about to run it down and one that was not- the first one just died tired...... the only value of any kind of "alert" is one that brings help in the form of lethal force: you with a gun or a large dog(or large dogs!), or both.

 

[youtubeminer]

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