Massacure last night

[Jay262]

Woke up to my drake dead, my neibours accross the street had 3 ducks dead aswell and my friend about 10 mins down the street hat 8 dead chickens. The chickens were gutted but the ducks were all just killed with necks broken no other damage. Any ideas what it could have been i have a foot print below.

 

[ccrow]

Looks like a dog to me. Maybe fox? I can't tell how big it is.

 

[Kikiriki]

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ipad&va=wild+pig+tracks



Those look like wild pig tracks (see the pics at the above link) and do not ask how I knew to look them up because I have no idea! Also, according to the following site, pigs will kill chickens . Sounds like it's time for a hawaiin style pig roast....

http://forums.homestead.org/forum_posts.asp?TID=11252&title=pigs-will-eat-anything-beware

 

[Jay262]

Hmm the footprints are quite big prob about the size of coyote or big dog say a husky or lab would be. The whole in the side of the coop shows aobut the same.

There are no wild pigs where i live so i can rule that one out thx for the opnions though im a little baffled right now wish i had bought a preadator cam now.

 

[llandry]

what part of the U.S. do you live?

 

[Jay262]

I dont im in eastern canada.

 

[ub1243]

coyote

 

[centrarchid]

No scale provided to indicate species but track is canid, not swine. Since bodies not policed up and occured over wide area, dog would be first guess. Coyote or coyote X wolf hybrid would have taken carcasses if not consumed immediately. Only some dogs do same and those likely to be feral. Red fox tracks to me appear more rounded and would be smaller is scale enabled comparison.

 

[7L Farm]

Big dog seems to know the hood well.

 

[Jay262]

Thx for all the advice there has been coyote sightings recently in the near area what ever it was was smart i know at my coop in particular by the tracks the animal came in my yard through a ditch that allows water to flow of my property allowint it not to be seen. Then it stocked around my yard serveral times finally finding a weakness in the wire where it made its way in. My first thought was a dog but would they be that smart?