Missing adult gamefowl rooster.

[Raun&alo]

It happened yesterday at midnight around 1 am when I heard my rooster and something trying to get in the coop and which it did successfully when I had it secured. It seems to dragged it out of the coop. And this happened after it had just stopped raining. I grabbed my flash light and looked around I do live near woods about 10 feet away from my coop. I checked inside the woods and saw a pile of feathers and no body or a drop of blood. Then I went in 5 feet deeper in the woods and saw another pile of feathers no blood nothing. What kind of predator could it have been that took my adult rooster? Help me please

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

My guess would be a fox or coyote.

 

[llombardo]

You say you had the coop secured, how was it secure? Picture of entry point?

Wha kind of predators do you have in the area?
How many chickens were in the coop at the time?

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Fox I would say
I had a fox rip wire off the cage to get in

 

[centrarchid]

@Raun&alo, please post a picture of where the rooster was kept. It is likely the type of predator involved is not as important as your containment.

 

[5pointstar]

I'm new to raising chickens (a year in march), and having the exact same problem described. Only now yesterday I had an attack at 3pm as well. Each time a trail of feathers to the wooded lot next to my property. I'm down 3 Hens, 1 Rooster and 1 Jake Spanish Turkey. Each attack was different, I'm pulling my hairs out. I started to abandon my old coop and I'm building new ones.

 

[llombardo]

I'm new to raising chickens (a year in march), and having the exact same problem described. Only now yesterday I had an attack at 3pm as well. Each time a trail of feathers to the wooded lot next to my property. I'm down 3 Hens, 1 Rooster and 1 Jake Spanish Turkey. Each attack was different, I'm pulling my hairs out. I started to abandon my old coop and I'm building new ones.

They are taken from the coop or free ranging?

 

[sourland]

My guess would be a fox or coyote.

To this list I would add bobcat, possibly coon or even Fisher depending upon where you are located.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Multiple piles of feathers is more in line with how K9s kill. They catch the chicken and then as they are fleeing with it they stop from time to time to shake it and kill it a little bit more. Bobcats are a more focused killer.

 

[Raun&alo]

I have a neighbor on the other side of the woods and she told me she had problems with foxes. So I think it was a fox. Can’t be too sure though, it’s tricky