What is it? **GRAPHIC PICS**

[koifarm]

Coon.
Once you start trapping continue until the trap stays empty for a week, then set it out again in two weeks, repeat till you are too old to move.....
Where there's one, there are twenty....when the twenty are gone, twenty more move into their vacated territory..it's an endless cycle....

 

[Mahlzeit]

I don't think it was done by raccoons. Anytime I have had a bird killed by a raccoon it has been torn apart and eaten. I would lean more towards a weasel or something like that as they kill and then just drink the blood. Just my two cents.

 

[Bizzybirdy]

Racoons have torn the heads of several of my chickens and not eaten the rest. Like to also pull them through the fence by the head or wing.

Awful creatures that look cute but are such wretched killers...I detest racoons.

 

[hinkjc]

I would say raccoon. I've seen their handywork on a half a pen of pheasants. Looked very similar. Some eaten almost completely and others left like this.

 

[rufus]

Bird of prey, probably an owl. They tear the head off and rip open the breast.

Look carefully at the first picture. You can see in the dirt where it's wing marked the dirt.

Rufus

 

[chickencoop31320]

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Are you talking about the wavey lines in the upper right hand corner?
Looks like shoe treds to me lol
but hey, I could be mistaken? lol

 

[Shelanie]

Quote:
Are you talking about the wavey lines in the upper right hand corner?
Looks like shoe treds to me lol
but hey, I could be mistaken? lol

It is my shoe print-- the wavy one.

 

[chickencoop31320]

Quote:
Are you talking about the wavey lines in the upper right hand corner?
Looks like shoe treds to me lol
but hey, I could be mistaken? lol

It is my shoe print-- the wavy one.

That's what I thought. I wasn't trying to disprove rufus, just thought that mighta been what he was talking about.
My guess would be raccoon.
I hope you don't lose anymore birds.

 

[Barnyard]

Something else to think about is a wharf rat. I have lost 5 birds the last month to a wharf rat. I am so sorry about your birds.