[SJC]

Please could you helpful people give me a clue as to what is killing & taking my girls.

I have now lost 3 of my girls in 3 seperate kilings,  all have happen in roughly the same place, with 6 days between each loss, and all I have left is a few piles of feathers all in the roughly the same place.  They have all going missing between 4pm & 8pm. 

The latest one has happened tonight between 6 - 7pm, but this time we have found her remains in a dense wide hedge bordering our field.  She has been half eaten but her intestines have been carefully removed and were about 6" away from her and intacked.  Sorry to be so graphic.

Please any advise

[Springlands]

Sorry to hear about your hens SJC but it sounds like a fox attack. Once a fox knows that there are hens that are vulnerable to attack it will return again and again. You will have to make sure that your hen run is as secure as possible.

[Kate and her Ducks]

I agree. Sounds just like a fox attack. And it will certainly keep returning while there is a ready source of food available. You really need to look to see what you can do to make them more secure, hard as that can be.

[BobE]

My only weak contribution is to lock them into a run for a few days, until he gives up.

[ANHBUC]

You may need to invest in an electric fence kit if you can not make a secure run large enough for them.  It is a big outlay but cheaper than having to replace your birds all the time and suffer the heartbreak.