During the summer of 2017 I had an issue with losing chickens to predators. Several of them have gone missing, with just a few feathers in the chicken yard. From the trail of feathers, something drug the chicken from the chicken house. I figure this was either a bobcat or coyote.
It is not a chicken hawk, because there is no body. Chicken hawks do not eat the bones.
A trail camera in the chicken yard showed a couple of raccoons and an opossum. However, opossums will not drag a chicken off. It will eat the chicken in the chicken house.
It was my own fault because the chicken house did not have a door on it. I figured my dogs would help keep predators away. Then again, whatever it was probably waited until the dogs went inside for the night.
Lesson learned, always have a door on the chicken house and close them up every nigh.
It is not a chicken hawk, because there is no body. Chicken hawks do not eat the bones.
A trail camera in the chicken yard showed a couple of raccoons and an opossum. However, opossums will not drag a chicken off. It will eat the chicken in the chicken house.
It was my own fault because the chicken house did not have a door on it. I figured my dogs would help keep predators away. Then again, whatever it was probably waited until the dogs went inside for the night.
Lesson learned, always have a door on the chicken house and close them up every nigh.