Is it a Coon

I have chickens. I have them fenced in with woven wire fence with the small rectangles on it and then hog panels around the bottom also to keep things out. I had trouble with hawks so I put orange construction fence over the top of the fence. I didn't feel right keeping them penned up all the time. I get home yesterday there is one dead with a few guts hanging out another one that is pretty much just feathers and bones and one just gone. So I locked up my birds and put a trap by the dead one. It was rusty but I played with it and got it working. Went out this morning and trap had been set off and the chicken had been all eaten. I wired it to the tree. I am putting trail cam out tonight. Question is would this be a coon? I am not near water if your thinking mink. Nothing dug under the fence I looked close.

Smarter people will answer. I seldom had mink or weasels eat the whole bird. But, could be. Raccoon maybe. If they were loose running around the yard, might be a dog or yote. Can't really think it would be a hawk with three birds done it, but again, maybe. I think the solution is keeping them locked up.

No way for a hawk to get in there now and it was between the hours of 9 pm and 4 am that something got in there last night.

Owls are great Killers..... Not sure how they may of got in though!!

A trail cam will give you some answers!!!

Much too much eaten to be anything small possum or coon imoIhave seen lots of chickens eaten by owls they eat head and work in from there that I have seen

There was hardly anything left. The wing bones all connected to the breast bone and leg bones. With a a few feathers still attached. Even the breast bone had been chewed on.

Just this past week I had a friend who had lost chickens and they put up a cam. It was a mink and they are not near water.

Good luck on whatever it is.

I agree with these guys. Likely a coon or possum. Don't rule out a cat either. We had a possum in our chickens here at work. We also had the falcon's here in Indy in the chickens until we put up netting. I don't think a mink would eat that much. My experience is they eat the heads mostly.

We ended up getting a small electric fence system, and placed one wire about 6" off the ground, and another about 2' off the ground all around the chicken pen. That worked!!! Came in one morning, and had the wire tore off and stretched across the parking lot to a hole under the chain link fence around our office. The stray pit bulls in the neighborhood got a good lesson also!!!! Be sure and let us know what the camera picks up!

I did see coon tracks out there. Look like just one set. Could one coon eat a whole chicken?

yes they could. Set some traps and catch the little bugger...

Trust me it is game on tonight.

Yaz The fence reminds me of when I lived next to the Prison at Pendleton one of the guards came and got me and took me to a field that had Hot wire around it a deer got tangled in it pulled 2 or 3 hundred yards to fall creek and electrocuted hisself

Chupacabra.

Red Fox is my guess and what I've had the most trouble with killing chickens through the years.

And the winner is Coon. Got some pics of him. Then I went out at 4 this morning before I went to gym and I caught just a glimpse of him. He was over my 6 ft fence before I could do anything. My others are locked up safe until the problem is taken care of.

Parrot Head, I've got a cage trap you can barrow if you don't have one.

Coons love marshmellows , I throw two or three in a cage trap then shoot them in the trap

I caught a big male this weekend. Of course I turned it loose on anther property safe away from my chickens:)