What could kill and eat 30 chickens in 1 night and not leave a single body.

[lazy gardener]

I had a single coon kill and carry off 9 of 12 full sized birds in a single night.

 

[Taunya]

This is like a Chicken Horror Movie.

 

[th_roster]

with all the evidence presented We should be able to come to some type of a verdict. For the victim Mr. EggWalrus.
my vote: raccoons and some chickens are still there.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

with all the evidence presented We should be able to come to some type of a verdict. For the victim Mr. EggWalrus.
my vote: raccoons and some chickens are still there.

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Coons and chickens still around.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

I have heard of a gang of coon getting into a coop and taking out 30 in a night- it happened to a breeder nearby me. But the remains were left everywhere in a bloodbath, not taken away like this.

 

[th_roster]

BabyBoss what is your verdict 2 yes

 

[EggWalrus]

If I had to bet, some of them are there somewhere. I would look to weather chickens can eat kudzu? they have water and safety. what they need is food. Have you tried calling them and throwing out some grain?

I have 2 different chickens houses. One's big and is a combo pen/coop, about 12x20 like a pole barn wrapped in chicken wire with a 8x4 roosting coop with egg boxes on back so you can collect eggs from outside. It's for the adults. They mostly roost in the rafters though. The other is for younguns and is 2 stories about 8ft tall. On the bottom is the hatchery/brooder, after they feather out and can fly up to the second story, I move them up there and start another crop of babies down below if there are any broodys.
The kudzu dies back in the winter, and I try to keep it and the wisteria all cut back and poisoned in summer,. Right now there's none they could hide in. Only place they could be the swamp or the woods.Even though they love to forage, they love that hi-protein game feed I give them every afternoon. Like clockwork, once the sun goes down over the trees, they come to the back door and will make a racket till I go feed them!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I have 2 different chickens houses. One's big and is a combo pen/coop, about 12x20 like a pole barn wrapped in chicken wire with a 8x4 roosting coop with egg boxes on back so you can collect eggs from outside. It's for the adults. They mostly roost in the rafters though. The other is for younguns and is 2 stories about 8ft tall. On the bottom is the hatchery/brooder, after they feather out and can fly up to the second story, I move them up there and start another crop of babies down below if there are any broodys.
The kudzu dies back in the winter, and I try to keep it and the wisteria all cut back and poisoned in summer,. Right now there's none they could hide in. Only place they could be the swamp or the woods.Even though they love to forage, they love that hi-protein game feed I give them every afternoon. Like clockwork, once the sun goes down over the trees, they come to the back door and will make a racket till I go feed them!

By all the happy Emojis is it safe to assume you're saying they've come back?

 

[sourland]

I have heard of a gang of coon getting into a coop and taking out 30 in a night- it happened to a breeder nearby me. But the remains were left everywhere in a bloodbath, not taken away like this.

I saw the same thing as a kid. Coon got into a neighbor's coop, killed several dozen birds, ate off the combs, and went to sleep in a corner. He did not live to kill again.

 

[th_roster]

After what you have told me. I would guess that there are a few hens out the in the swamp or the woods.
I do have a question thought has there been an increase in the number of flights by the US gov lately?