WARNING: GRAPHIC PICS!!! HELP!!! Something Killed My Guinea!! Can't Figure Out What...

[sourland]

looks like a bird of prey victim to me

This gets my vote.

 

[centrarchid]

I think raptor (hawk or owl).

Reasons
1) time of day not typical for raccoon
2) birds plucked without slobbery looking (also not typical of raccoon)
3) Larger bones not consumed as typical of most larger mammals
4) Muscle looks torn from body (raptors do this most)
5) Mammals of raccoon size and larger tend to dissarticulate prey as consumed
6) Coyote / bobcat / fox would cache parts not consumed immediately so not likely any of those

 

[zazouse]

Sorry for your loss

Looks like the work of a bird of prey.

 

[TyWilk18]

Bird of Prey definitely. A feline wouldn't leave the body it would most likely just leave the head. And having certain parts of the animal missing and especially the eyes being gone is not typical with a bobcat/housecat etc. The three slashes appear to be talons

 

[Ashburnham]

I think raptor (hawk or owl).

Reasons
1) time of day not typical for raccoon
2) birds plucked without slobbery looking (also not typical of raccoon)
3) Larger bones not consumed as typical of most larger mammals
4) Muscle looks torn from body (raptors do this most)
5) Mammals of raccoon size and larger tend to dissarticulate prey as consumed
6) Coyote / bobcat / fox would cache parts not consumed immediately so not likely any of those

I agree with all the above- good summary!

 

[Gallus Sapien]

Sorry for your loss

Looks like the work of a bird of prey.

X2

 

[Conchis]

Don't know how accurate this site is.... (I hope it's okay to post a reference to another site in a case like this)... it gives some guidelines about possible chicken predators. Single kill, head eaten it says is hawk.

http://www.freewebs.com/professorchickenspredators/

 

[Stephanie739]

I guess hawk. I just found out what has snatched a couple of my chicks over the last month. I saw the hawk standing over my half eaten bantam rooster early yesterday morning. The remains look liked this, and the other remains were mostly just piles of feathers.

 

[starlingsbaby]

i am going to say bird of prey also. i had several ducks and about 6 chickens took by a fox and coyote and it looked nothing like this i had nothing but head and feet left from mine and feathers so i will say bird of prey. i am so sorry for your loss. i hope you find what killed your guinea.

 

[Oregon Blues]

That's a lot of meat gone at one time for a bird of prey., Hawks are small birds and can't eat pounds of meat at one sitting.

The amount of meat gone and the eyes picked out looks more like a flock of crows to me. In a crow attack, they peck out the eyes first to disable the prey and make it easier to kill..

It could also be a domestic cat, except that cats don't remove the eyes. But cats will remove the meat without breaking the bones.