Just because you catch something in your trap, doesn't make it the guilty party.The predator got them sometime between 6AM to 5:30PM yesterday . I am thinking about setting up a trap for whatever it is, just to see what I can get and to get rid of whatever it is. We have a few people with chickens around us and I would hate for them to have to go through this too, so if I do catch something I WILL “put it to sleep”
Sometimes a possum will stumble onto a dead body, for instance, but something else killed it. At 5:30 pm it's dark at my house and raccoons come out right before dark and sometimes a little before. A raccoon would be more capable of pulling it through the fence than any bird.
What's your location?