Predators bringing back dead birds

[Paige2213]

I agree on it being a dog. They will kill then find a nice spot to eat, often the same place. Wild animals are too wary to eat in the same place each time.

The only dogs around us are ours and my neighbors, but their dogs are tiny little things, that don't leave their yard. Im stumped on what it is. It took my last 3 small ones I had outside in 1 night, it took 1 and killed the other 2 and left them in the woods behind the coop. Im assuming it would've came back to get them when it was done with the one it took off with. (we kept watch to see if we could spot it and we still somehow missed it) and our dogs and cat don't bother my chickens.

 

[Paige2213]

Any way you could bring them in a little earlier so they aren’t getting taken as they go in

That's what I started to do after I first made this post. But it hasn't been back since it took the last 3 small ones. Im guessing it takes the small ones over the big ones because they're easier to grab

 

[Paige2213]

The only dogs around us are ours and my neighbors, but their dogs are tiny little things, that don't leave their yard. Im stumped on what it is. It took my last 3 small ones I had outside in 1 night, it took 1 and killed the other 2 and left them in the woods behind the coop. Im assuming it would've came back to get them when it was done with the one it took off with. (we kept watch to see if we could spot it and we still somehow missed it) and our dogs and cat don't bother my chickens.

It also killed a hen, a roo, and a my sons rabbit all in 1 night. It killed the rabbit through the wire tha6t on the hutch. It left it bc it couldn't get it out. The wire i have on hutch is that super tiny squared chicken wire. And it actually brought one of the tail of the serama back twice

 

[Kanekoded]

Does anyone have any ideas of what would take a bird and bring back bones and the tail? I set a live trap almost every night. I've caught a few possums and 2 coons (I haven't caught a coon since may). Whatever it was came back tonight and took a roo, killed a hen and left her. It brings back the carcass and leaves it in same spot each time under my coop. I actually got rid the first carcass it brought back last week and it brought it back again tonight along with another it took just a few days ago. (I walked the first roo maybe a quarter mile or so back on our property and got rid of him.) Any ideas of what im up against would help me tremendously, im tired of losing birds. Ill also add that it killed a rabbit through my rabbit hutch but it didn't eat him or take him because it couldn't pull him through the wire. Tia.

I would bet it's a fox. They're one of the only predators I know of that will create a "storage unit" for leftovers. Seems the designated "storage unit" is under your coop.

 

[McChooky]

Never heard of a fox carrying a carcass back to where it was killed & disposed of. If the coops in a remote location it might feel safe there.

 

[DickMidnight]

build a run for them. you’re basically running a pasture popeyes over there.

 

[McChooky]

I've been trying to rescue a game rooster ever since his owner went to live in a nursing home but haven't had any luck.He doesn't have a coop or run so he's hard to catch. Yesterday I fed him and waited until he went to roost before I went to pick up a friend to get him out of the tree but we couldn't find him when we got back.There was a possum in the tree where he was roosting but the rooster was nowhere around. (Predators have already killed his other chickens)

 

[raingarden]

Once you get him regularly coming to food he will be easy to catch.

 

[McChooky]

Once you get him regularly coming to food he will be easy to catch.

The only reason he came out yesterday was he was starving.Hes scared of people.

 

[Paige2213]

Never heard of a fox carrying a carcass back to where it was killed & disposed of. If the coops in a remote location it might feel safe there.

Just a small update. It came back again lastnight and brought the small roosters tail back again. It didn't take anyone just brought it back