What a horrible experience, especially having know the chickens for such a long timeAfter 10 years of backyard chickening, my flock of 6 were massacred last night. Something(s) created and forced through a small gap in the coop and ripped the heads off all my sweet girls. Only ate half of one. I can’t believe the grief I’m feeling. I’m literally wrecked and feel so guilty and sad. What an awful way to die. I’ve lost a chicken here and there over the years of course which is always sad, but to lose them all at one night- and some were truly elderly- at least 10 yrs old- and STILL laying the occasional egg. Fed my family for years. All done. I feel sick. I’m shocked by the violence and by how hard this is to take. I myself am no spring chicken and have weathered some storms, but this has me in a tailspinGuess I’ll be buying eggs from now on.
.I realise this may seem tactless and unfeeling but could you describe how the predator got in and post pictures of your coop and where the predator breach the defenses? It might help others and help prevent a similar thing happening to them.
