EMERGENCY!!!! HEADLESS DEAD CHICKENS!!!!! Warning, picture included.

[TheOddOneOut]

The hole is closed and yes, me or my neighbor will kill the owl. We both have chickens, he's lost a couple too.

You‘ve not stopped the killings, because it is a raccoon.
And even if it was the owl...
There is no reason to kill the bird if it is unable to get in.
That is simply an illegal revenge kill.
The bird is trying to survive. It can’t just buy food from a store. And if you are going to kill it because it took your birds to survive, you’re no better than a predator that kills for fun.
I don’t mean to offend, but that is not something I can agree with.

 

[centrarchid]

There is no reason to kill the bird if it is unable to get in.
That is simply an illegal revenge kill.
The bird is trying to survive. It can’t just buy food from a store. And if you are going to kill it because it took your birds to survive, you’re no better than a predator that kills for fun.
I don’t mean to offend, but that is not something I can agree with.

Kill the owl, losses will continue, because raccoon did it. Yippee!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Kill the owl, losses will continue, because raccoon did it. Yippee!

That too, lol.

 

[birdlover2]

If the owl really did it then you would be justified in killing it to prevent further loses...however with the hole patched up they probably won't be able to get in anymore, and I doubt it was an owl. Predator birds would swoop down and carry off their prey, not kill it in the coop. I would agree with others on here that it's probably a raccoon. We had raccoons kill so many chickens growing up, usually they ate heads. Sometimes they carried off a chicken too. We found a whole family of coons living under the shed and elsewhere on the property. They also killed in the coop too. One time I forgot to close the coop door before leaving for the day and came back at night to chaos. A chicken was trying to cross the road, which I subsiquently saved, and there was one dead chicken in the coop and one injured and a couple missing. Coons are common predators and fit your descriptions.

 

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Opossum

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Opossum

Doesn’t fit...