Has to be a two-legged predator

[WriterofWords]

Ok, as of today after work I have now had vanish:
3 Black Silkie Roos
1 Handicapped roo Tux
3 Bantam Cochin Roos
2 Runner Ducks, Drakes,

This is getting ridiculous. The SO does drive-bys, my neighbors keep an eye out, they did see a blue van at my fence yesterday while Steven and I were gone, but didn't think about it until they remembered I'm losing animals.
No footprints, no animal prints, no noises, no feathers anywhere, no sign of any fowl play, just gone! I can't afford a security camera, and now I'm starting to worry about dogs, especially the Chihuahua and the Blue Heeler. I'm afraid someone has decided my place is their personal discount store.

 

[speckledhen]

Crap, Kate! That's really awful! I sure hope you can set up a camera or something.

 

[kelseygirl707]

That's Horrible! I'm so sorry, invest in a Bull Mastiff, they are Terrifying if you see one charging at you, but known to tackle and pin threats, not attack them.

Good Luck

 

[mdbokc]

This is horrible. I am strongly inclined to agree that it is a "people" problem.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

If no tracks, maybe it is an air attack, but then you should have found some feathers.

 

[theFox]

Quote:
Funny all males.

Someone is getting rid of the noise makers.

 

[blueoval1]

Haha thats what stuck out to me its all males. Most people want hens.

I hope you find the theif

 

[WriterofWords]

They aren't noisy though, all of them are surprisingly quiet, especially the Silkie roos, and the ducks. The handicapped roo Tux, couldn't crow, and the Bantams didn't make any noise at all unless sounding the danger alarm. I don't have a lot of close neighbors, just the ones across the street that bought my parents house, and one across the other corner and they aren't home much.

 

[trinacliff]

Have you had any complaints about them crowing or making noise??? That is just crazy!

Kristen

 

[WriterofWords]

I've never had a complaint, not one. I live in an area where almost everyone as chickens, ducks, livestock, I'm one of many. It's a desert area, with acres between people too. Mine are just so friendly if someone pulls up to the fence they walk up begging for fries. The 3 Silkie's disappeared at night, so did Tux the handicapped roo, he was the first to go. Right after that a drake went, then a Bantam roo, then the other Bantam Roo, the latest was the second drake. The first drake went at night, the second drake and both bantams during the day while I was at work, the neighbors were at work, and both times my parents had taken the motorhome for propane or gas so it was gone. The Silkies and Tux were taken out of an enclosed pen, Tux was in the coop! The door had to be opened, him grabbed, and the door shut again. The ducks sleep in the pen with the coop but not inside it. The Bantams used to sleep in the bushes on the porch, but they went during the day anyway.
The others in the coop, and the tree chickens and the porch birds haven't been bothered. Next to the coop is the baby pen with the Sizzles, Frizzles, and last remaining Silkies in it. They haven't been bothered and their pen is much easier to get into if it were non-human.