What predator would pile up dead chickens?

[Bri A]

I have been raising birds for years, so I am familiar with predator issues, but I have a new one. I have a small flock of a dozen 2-month-old Jersey Giants and 4 full-grown ducks. The other morning I went to the barn to find only two chicks in the barn. 4 ducks and 7 small chickens are totally missing. Here is the interesting part. There were three chicken carcasses in a neat little pile in the middle of the horse paddock outside the barn. Two intact and one with a missing head. Missing head makes me think raccoon or owl, but an owl would only kill one or two, and I do not think a raccoon would carry off 4 ducks and 7 chicks. I have never heard of anything piling them up, like they were making a neat little cache and were planning to come back for them. That sounds more like a fox, but I don't see a fox carrying off that many. It could be coyotes, but I don't think they would pile anything up. Happened at night or before 10 AM. Has anyone had a predator make a pile out of their kills?

 

[Rose the Legbar]

Probably some sort of weasel/stoat as they are known to kill for sport. Do you know if weasels/stoats are in your part of the world? It could be fox but they dont sport hunt usually.

 

[Mrs. K]

I think it is a coons. They tend to get them in the dark. I wonder if something spooked them off.