Do dogs kill like this?

[lacyloo]

Humans

 

[rufus]

OK, be extra cautious. People who will steal your chickens will steal anything else of value.

Rufus

 

[playswithfowl]

humans!!!

 

[silkiechicken]

That's right... wasn't thinking to straight after a 7:30 class... or was it before a 7:30 class? To leave just guts... only thing that does that is a human.... Some predators eat the guts and leave the body... Lock em up and when you go predator eradicating, make sure you don't get in trouble with the two legged variety. Can't SSS with them...

 

[TxChiknRanchers]

No, SSS is a out of the question(shoveling takes a lot longer) so is way too much work. but be prepared, a state trooper once told me that it is better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

A motion camera and an alarm might scare them off and get that great deer in the headlights photo.

 

[Billina]

Just for the record, my cats leave the cleanest entrails I ever saw when they get a rat or a mouse - it looks like something from Gray's Anatomy. I'm not suggesting a cat, and I agree dogs are much too clumsy, but some other animal perhaps? And what human would stop to gut and clean chickens at the scene of the crime?

 

[ole-crone]

I once had a raccoon who very neatly killed the chicken and only left the gizzard behind.

I saw bloody tiny handprints all over the side of the chicken coop - like it was painting a mural. When I opened the nest box lid -which is bulky/heavy for me - there, laying neatly in the straw was the gizzard. No dead bird anywhere in sight. No feathers, no sign of struggle.

How about a family of raccoons being taught how to torment humans by their mother?

 

[Queen of the Lilliputians]

Wow.. sorry for your loss. Truly I live in dread of the day I find something similar in my coop. What a horrible feeling.


Here's the thing.. if it was human, I really think they just would've taken the birds. I really can't see a person stopping in the pitchblack to gut a chicken carcass.

I'm not saying it CAN'T be.. but doesn't really sound plausable. If you are going to go to the trouble of taking the birds, why not just TAKE THEM?


I agree with the pp who suggested some sort of other animal. My cats, also, will leave weird body parts around from mice/rats/moles/what have you. I had a perfectly severed head in the yard.. the next week it was a body, w/o the head (not the same mouse!).

I have no idea what you have there for predators (first thought that came to mind was maybe one of the bigger cats: mt lions, lynx, etc, but don't know if you have them there.. and I only thought of them because of what my little cats do, not really sure what they would leave).

Dust with flour around the coop. See if this creature comes back.

Meghan

 

[panner123]

Over the years I have seen many predator kills, most will go for the inners first. The only times I have seen them left the predator was two legged. Check out my post on 09-02-2007.