newchickenmom33
Songster
- Jun 4, 2018
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I hope she recovers. I don’t have any advice just wish you and her well.
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I discovered tonight that I have a missing chicken and found one dead. There are feathers all over the coop and outside of the window.... Her body was picked clean. [no] head. No blood. Just feathers, wings, legs and feet, and bones....
Looked for a fingers crossed emogie,, or what ever there called, but couldn't find one. So fingers crossed.
Without a photo it is hard to know but a coon will often use its finger and hand strength to devoir a chicken similar to how a human would pick and eat berries off the bush.
As a general rule however any chicken that is killed and eaten and the skeleton is still intact or articulated was killed by a bird of prey.
The fact that you found your 2nd hen and that she is alive is more evidence that the culprit was a bird of prey. Hawks and Owls begin feeding before the victim is dead.