What's the predator?

NickyPick

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Sep 18, 2010
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I found pieces of a hen scattered around my horses pen yesterday - the shoulder bones and wings attached; the head and spine and one foot with all the leg bones still attached. No muscle on anything. I've never seen this before! Any one have any idea what I could be facing here?
 
Hawks and other raptors strip off thin strips of flesh and eat them much like a child slurping spaghetti off of their dinner plate. This results in a corpse that may still have a fully articulated but flesh-less skeleton. Also because a hawk will often begin feeding before your hen or rooster is dead there are usually several feather piles, one where the capture first happened and additional piles of feathers and down were the chicken struggled to get away but the hawk maintained physical control over your chicken until either blood loss or shock ended your favorite chickens' agony.
 

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