This isn’t the best pic of my roo’s leg, but is this coloring normal? I have two-three possible theories. Recently, I lost a baby roo and a smaller weaker silkie roo to a cat that got through my coop roof netting (since been secured). The baby got killed at night, so I shut everyone inside the coop and let them out during the day. I looked online and it said that cats rarely attack adult chickens so I thought they would be okay, but it got back in and killed my silkie roo in the daytime, but didn’t eat him (poor guy just got beheaded with the head still there). I then spent that evening and the next morning completely securing the coop and haven’t had any losses since. Taking a look at my birds, I noticed this pink color on my remaining roo, and am now concerned. Is it an injury from fighting the cat? Leg mites? Scald from the coop needing a clean? I can’t get a clear pic when I’m pinning him down because I need both hands to do so, but I notice one leg scale looking like it will fall off. I will check on him again in the morning when I can see better and before letting everyone out. I will make sure to clean and relitter the coop just in case and try to smear his legs with Vaseline to try and cover all possibilities but I’m worried about him. The feather sticking out that you can see came off when pulled along with another feather. Thoughts?
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I didn't think cats tore the heads off chickens, but I could be wrong. You may have more than one predator hanging around. To me, it sounds more like a raccoon kill.
