What attacks like this? Graphic pic

[cajunlizz]

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oh so sorry . Do you have plenty of trees nearby ?

Any digging under your fence ?

 

[wyliefarms]

A martin is a relative to the weasel and mink. It is larger than the 2 mentioned above.

A few years ago we have a mink get in (for several nights) and bite off the leg of numberous meat chickens. The amputation was so clean the chickens didn't bleed at all.
The mink left some tracks around the trailer I ended up putting the chickens in to save them.

These animals are known for 'sucking the blood" out of their pry.

Hope this helps.

 

[Chuntgray]

I have heard minks or weasals only eat the heads.

 

[TerrasCritters]

Sorry about your loss, I didnt read all the replies but my guesses would be Coon or Hawk, you said you dont have coons and it was during the day, but they do often kill during the day as well. So do the Hawks, your photos look alot like what some of my babies looked like after a Hawk was done with them. I even found one of my girls on the back side of my pens wedged between the pen and a peice of ply wood, it looked like the girl shook herself away from the bird in flight, because there is no way she could of got back there, and she was dropped and landed upside down, she had no wounds but took her awhile to get her barrings back.
I later lost 2 others to the Hawk/s and then penned my birds up for a long time, that bird would sit there and watch me everyday in that tree right above my coops. Finnally it left and hasnt come back, hopefully it wont, but my birds are always supervised now when they are out.

Again sorry for your loss, your probably right about it being a Hawk. =-(

 

[gachickeeper]

I had a Raccoon do the same thing to two of my birds once.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

I'm screaming coon! My friend lives out in the country, and this happens often to her birds that are on wire. They either reach in and pull the heads off while they are sleeping, or pull the legs off while they are running around.

 

[dangerouschicken]

Skunk. They also pull off the heads.