Daylight predator attacks

[buffslat]

What would attack a chicken in broad daylight? Something carted off one of my chickens from the yard at 3 in the afternoon. Pulled out her tail feathers and some from around her neck, but never broke the skin. I heard something moving in the woods and run out there and there she was trying to hide under some brush.
Could it have been a fox taking it back to her kits alive? Whatever it was didn't kill her, just traumatized her pretty good.

 

[sourland]

If hungry enough, any predator willl modify it's normal hunting pattern and kill during the day - especially if this is when the prey is available.