What predator will kill like this???

[CW@SHA]

Hi - I am new to this forum. I'm from Nebraska and I want to know if Turkey Vultures will get your chickens? I am missing some girls, and I keep seeing these vultures flying around. I coop them at night, but they were missing after this past weekend. Thanks. Cindy

 

[egg-stra special chic]

So sorry for your loss also. It is very sickening. I had waited and watched and was so excited about my chicks that were ready to hatch and just overnight the excitement is just ripped from me!! Never have I had a problem and then get this close to the buttercup chicks!

Im going to try the cheese tonight and see if that will bring on tha skunk!! Like I said we have been every night since Sunday numerous times during the night. We have never saw or smelled a skunk. Im gonna keep on trying though. Thanks for the advice and tips!!

 

[egg-stra special chic]

CW@SHA :

Hi - I am new to this forum. I'm from Nebraska and I want to know if Turkey Vultures will get your chickens? I am missing some girls, and I keep seeing these vultures flying around. I coop them at night, but they were missing after this past weekend. Thanks. Cindy

Hope I did the quote thing right??? Sorry if I didnt..maybe someone will explain it to me if not. I have never had a problem with the turkey vultures and we do have them in my area also. Maybe someone else will give you a better answer and it will help me also!​

 

[feliciamckee]

Sorry this happened to you. Take it from me...there are surely more than two! We catch a predator in our live traps almost every night! We keep thinking..."surely, this is the last of them!" They just keep coming and we don't even live out in the woods, we live 2 miles from a Walmart Supercenter and just have a small wooded field behind us. We wonder where they can keep coming from!!!

 

[wyoDreamer]

CW@SHA :

Hi - I am new to this forum. I'm from Nebraska and I want to know if Turkey Vultures will get your chickens? I am missing some girls, and I keep seeing these vultures flying around. I coop them at night, but they were missing after this past weekend. Thanks. Cindy

From my limited knowledge of vultures, the turkey vulture feeds primarily on dead things. The shape of the beak and head limits it's ability to actually "hunt" and kill. The great big wingspan and body shape also prevents the rapid movements needed to catch and kill prey.

Not saying that they wouldn't try to kill a chicken if they were hungry enough, but that it is very unlikely.

They would however enjoy a chicken meal that was already dead.

 

[Saltysteele]

someone on her posted before that there is another bird that looks similar to turkey buzzards, called them black vultures.

they stated, and i have found a few reports on the net, that these "black vultures" will take weakened animals, or unprotected young animals/birds

 

[debontheweb]

Definitely a raccoon.