rabiee
Songster
Last Wednesday I came home at 7:30 to find one duck and one hen missing. Searched high and low and could only find two piles of my hens feathers at the edge of our property where we stop mowing. On Monday I came home to a pile of red feathers from another hen not more than 10ft from my front door. Searched high and low and actually found more of the red hen (her wing and more feathers) and piles of my other black hen from last week. So what ever got them ate them in the same location, probably 20ft behind our coop in the tall grass and woods. I never found any remains of my duck, I did find her mate in the brook behind the house, and they actually never really go down there (he was ok, just shaken up). The same day we found the red hen my husbands friend came up to set some traps, and scented them with fox pee. Nothing has set the traps off yet, I know foxes are smart, but do you think a hawk could be doing this? Or would a racoon hunt during the day? I know that the first two birds were taken between 6:30pm and 7:30pm and I think the third was taken between 6:30am-9am. We set up a trail cam to watch the coop, and have since reinforced our run, we usually free range with no problem but after this last attack won't let them out.
