(GRAPHIC) What did this?!?

[AllenK RGV]

Daytime=hawk nighttime=raccoon. I didn't see a time of day for the attack, but thinking you found the carnage in the AM. Hopefully, you can provide a more secure enclosure in the near future so you don't have to see this again. I for one understand if you are rearing them on a budget. I think I have spent 50 or so dollars for hardware to improve an old structure on my own property to have a coop, and you can do much repurposing old pallets and other things you can find for a song and a dance at scrap metal yards or construction waste at the dump. If you aren't resource limited there are loads of luxury and budget coop ideas to be found under the article section here at BYC. Best wishes, and hope you never have to see something like this again in future.
Allen

 

[andreanar]

Raccoon! If you plan to continue to use that cage, you need to go get a roll of hardware cloth and line the whole cage with it.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

100% coon.. reach in and pull thru is their m.o..
IT WILL RETURN. Once they establish a food source, they will return until that source is depleted. You will need to:

• Secure your investment with a better housing solution. A coon can figure out how to open latches on dog kennels.
• Implement a trap. Live trap placed near or next to your birds once your birds are more secured.
• reset the trap nightly. Coons are herd animals. They live in groups. Catch one, another may follow.

Do this post haste. In the mean while, you may concider bringing the kennel in doors after dark until you are able to provide a safer habitat for them to roost in.
Good Luck & sorry about your loss.
Connie

 

[testcranker]

Might be a domestic cat but more than likely a Raccoon. As others have said, it/they will be back for the rest. A trap with dry kibble cat food usually works good on the 'coons in my area. For some reason, they don't like peanut butter here.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Might be a domestic cat but more than likely a Raccoon. As others have said, it/they will be back for the rest. A trap with dry kibble cat food usually works good on the 'coons in my area. For some reason, they don't like peanut butter here.

The best bait in the world right now is what is in that photo. Hate to be so blunt.. but the dead bird. The coon WILL come back for seconds.

 

[chickens really]

The best bait in the world right now is what is in that photo. Hate to be so blunt.. but the dead bird. The coon WILL come back for seconds.

Or canned cat food ...

 

[Lazy Farmer]

 

[imnukensc]

Coon. I'd skip the live animal traps and go straight to a dog proof coon trap.

 

[Kamal sidhu]

You must upgrade your coop
Gap between the rods doesn’t looks safe

 

[Bonniebooboo]

I totally agree with the others, a coon did it. It appears the chicks roosted on the ground and most likely a bit too close to the side. If that coon can reach it, it will grab and pull it through. Here is what was left of mine. She roosted a bit too close to the chain link. The coon climbed the chain link to get to the roost and pulled her through. pullet was 9 weeks old at the time. The coon came back the very next night and she had 2 young that my dogs dispatched sometime after I had caught the mother.
good luck with getting a place fixed up and catching the varmit. It will come back and maybe bring others. Pullets head is just skin hooked to beak. the varmit ate her skull and everything it contained.