I had a small completely enclosed coop that held 13 cutornix quail. They lived behind my high school in an open field with no proper forest or anything nearby due to people’s property. I am on vacation and have someone checking on them, and yesterday everything was fine and today 8 were dead, 2 were missing, and 3 were alive. Some were practically ripped in half, some had no visible wounds but were in poses of distress and missing feathers. Absolutely no problems before this, they had been there for about 5 months. What really sucks is that I’ll be gone for long enough that I won’t be able to collect and hatch their last eggs, so when I was supposed to be actually kicking off this fall, I’ll be starting from scratch. I didn’t build the coop, and it was in disrepair so I fixed it up and did my best to predator proof it, like adding chicken wire with smaller holes that bent at the ground, and the indoor section had a floor, and I put bricks around a few parts of it. Something definitely dug in with a decently sized hole. Any ideas on how to prevent this from happening again? I don’t want to have to start over a third time. I’ll include a picture of the coop.