Something getting into chicken coop

[Miss Lydia]

Are they okay this morning @quackiemama ?

 

[quackiemama]

They are here with me this morning. My husband is going to go over and talk to him to see if he will let us step in and either help him with his coop or let us work on one over here. I am having nightmares about his chickens.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hope he agrees!!

 

[quackiemama]

Me too they are beautiful and sweet birds! Here is the rooster and his last surviving hen

 

[Reddawn]

Wow that is a gorgeous Roo!!

Good luck that would have my feathers fluffed too!

Definitely sounds like a snake issue

 

[moniquem]

Good Luck!

 

[quackiemama]

Wow that is a gorgeous Roo!!

Good luck that would have my feathers fluffed too!

Definitely sounds like a snake issue

He is gorgeous isn't he? And so sweet, he will eat from my hand and just follows me everywhere I go. I love him so much and he is not even mine. You think snake?

 

[quackiemama]

Good Luck!

Thank you!!

 

[Reddawn]

He is gorgeous isn't he? And so sweet, he will eat from my hand and just follows me everywhere I go. I love him so much and he is not even mine. You think snake?

Snake really seems to be the only option. Or some illness but then there would be other indicators and they would not always die overnight. Anything else would be a more obvious “cause of death”

Keep us posted on the results

 

[Helloworld]

Buy powdered sulfer for copperheads. In plant section at lowes. Used for roses. It Won’t hurt apple tree. Copperheads like to bite on the face. Poisonous will have swelling around bite.
He may have a nest near coop and not know it. Even in coop. They will use pre-existing holes from gophers, moles, etc to burrow and nest. My concern would be what if this is a slow illness from poor water maintenance or something else. To me, this almost sounds like constriction from a rat snake. They will take over a nest and leave during day when people are around and return at night to eat eggs. If she was close to what it has claimed as home and food, he needs to go check coop after dark. They will pass over a chicken for her eggs but if sitting in nest sleeping it will kill chicken, leave and spend all night eating eggs.

Also, don’t know if you have Cow Ants but deadly to smaller animals.