What predator is killing your chickens?

[MackChicks]

Any ideas on what would scale a 6ft run, pull apart the fencing on the roof and pluck a rooster from his roost? Only a trail of feathers was left behind.

 

[LeafBlade12345]

Coyote? Fox maybe? What was the roof fencing?

 

[MackChicks]

Coyote? Fox maybe? What was the roof fencing?

A heavy duty welded wire. It was pulled and bent where two pieces met.

 

[smalls]

That most definitely look like a raccoon print, although from the few times I've been tracking it may also be a skunk.

 

[Mutt Farm]

Any ideas on what would scale a 6ft run, pull apart the fencing on the roof and pluck a rooster from his roost? Only a trail of feathers was left behind.

A heavy duty welded wire. It was pulled and bent where two pieces met.

Yikes! Bob Cat sounds more likely to me than a coon if it carried the whole thing off. They were everywhere when I lived on Cocoa and Altamonte.

 

[MackChicks]

Yikes! Bob Cat sounds more likely to me than a coon if it carried the whole thing off. They were everywhere when I lived on Cocoa and Altamonte.  

Our property is surrounded by orange groves. We originally thought coon but reading the details on coon attacks it doesn't match up. I think you're right! Now, how to keep it away.

 

[Mutt Farm]

Our property is surrounded by orange groves. We originally thought coon but reading the details on coon attacks it doesn't match up. I think you're right! Now, how to keep it away.

Hot wire (electric fence) is the best guarantee. and heavy hardware cloth, nailed, not stapled. Here's another thread with a relentless bobcat. He's also in Fla. Maybe you can get some ideas?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1019800/bobcat-is-putting-me-through-living-hell/30#post_15834184

 

[smalls]

Also, this seems like two different attacks. I think that multiple predators are the culprit here.