What would dig up long-dead chicken?

[Chickenmaven]

I buried poor Cookie (a 2 y.o. hen) three weeks ago. She had been having oviduct problems, even passed something that looked like a rock...

Imagine my alarm & disgust when I found her half-eaten carcass in the yard, yeaterday. Something had dug her up and eaten most of her torso.

We live in a residential area. What would eat a body that had been dead for soooo long?

 

[xyresicchick]

an opossum would.

but usually 'possums will drag the whole carcass back to their burrow and eat the whole thing (including the bones) there.

also, maybe a racoon or skunk would, or even a dog.

i have a dog that likes eating smelly things.... including dirty underwear! blehehhh

 

[1_FnkyFrm]

You have a dog, if so prob. him or her...

 

[Annabella]

My first thought was a dog. They bury their bones and dig them up later for afterthought chewing.
Mind you my dog revels in rolling in anything he finds dead and rotting - eau de doggie cologne!!

 

[MysticScorpio82]

I would think it would be something from the dog family (dog, coyote, fox); but an oppossum could do it too

 

[iluvsedward]

all i can say is ewwwww

 

[Chickenmaven]

It was horrible.

The only strays we have around here are cats BTW.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I'm having problems keeping a turkey buried. My chickens keep digging it up & dragging it across the barn lot. I have to re-bury it in the morning & again in the evening.

 

[aprophet]

Possums do not usually work that hard for food lots of folks are really surprised when they find out the number of fox and yotes they have in and around their neighborhoods. It could be a dog as well. A dog a lot of time does not eat something disgusting and old they just roll in it and play with it a fox or yote that is hungry would eat it.

 

[duckyfromoz]

I used to have a feral cat problem in my suburban area. One attacked my ducks one night and killed it. About two weeks later it was also dug up by a cat.

So sorry that you had to deal with burying her a second time... I cried for the whole day when it happened to me.