Usually attacks ranged turkeys.
CAT (domestic) Usually only 1 or 2 baby poultry devoured (usually by tomcats) with evidence of wings and legs left only. Will kill nightly. Trap near entries.
COYOTE Usually seen by handlers as they are not very shrewd in their attempts to gain entry into a poultry house. Fairly easy trapping.
DOG Maimed, missing birds, wires and doors torn down. Will kill and maim many or just one. Usually takes bird home but may hide and eat , usually whole bird.
FISHER Said to be a problem on the East Coast only. Will store extra food, returning later to eat it.
FOX Will remove whole birds, day and night (usually at night). Will travel 1/2 mile or more with the kill. Poultry legs found at fox den entries. Will not usually enter a poultry house--prefers ranged birds. Difficult to see and trap.
HAWK Bothers ranged poultry. Hunts during the day. Swoops down and takes whole bird. Depending on how adept the hawk is you might not hear bird squawk when attacked. Does not usually bother large turkeys or grown geese.
MINK Usually remove smaller poultry only. Discharges an acrid musk that can be smelled hours later.
MUSKRAT Prefers pond foods, but will attack poultry, eating insides out, leaving rest of carcass.
OWL Great Horned Owl mainly. Usually takes heat off only on grown guineas and ducks, very small poultry taken whole at night but will hunt daylight. Enters through 1 ft square openings in building. Will attempt flying through panes of glass upon spotting poultry. Will take roosting guineas from trees. Headless poultry carcasses found in area. Does not usually bother grown turkeys or adult geese, but will attack offspring in a flock of geese.
OPOSSUM Eats insides out on premises, likes eggs, picks away at bones. Mostly scavenges at night occasionally daytime.
RACCOON Takes small birds whole, adult guinea, grown ducks, large turkeys and geese eaten where killed. Eats breast only, usually takes head off too, but not always. Adept at squeezing through openings and using paws to remove birds from cages if cage door is flexible. Will come back nightly or every other night (even if freed from trapping). Loves eggs! Bits of course fur may be found attached to entry. Strong animals, need good traps. Set traps near entry.
RATS Contusions and bites on legs, baby poultry dragged into rat tunnels usually with part of body (such as head and neck) down in tunnel, eaten around bone. Look for tunnels going under building walls and rat droppings near feed pans. Will sometimes eat with birds. Will travel from building to building only to feed. Eats eggs as quick as they are laid. Pulls and eats feathers off roosting birds for protein.
SKUNK Easts insides out on premises, likes eggs, garbage, dead carcasses attract. Will take broody's eggs out from under her. Sometimes faint skunk odor noticed around building, but not usually. Easy to trap.
TURTLES Usually attack waterfowl in open waters. Large ducks occasionally attacked showing contusions. Love ducklings and goslings most. First sign may only be missing waterfowl or adult geese fighting them from offspring in water.
WEASEL Bites on neck found, will attack only a few or a lot, bluish coloration of skin about head and under wings. Sometimes run in family packs. Occasionally a faint skunk odor may be evident. Weasel able to enter 1 inch opening.
WOLF Usually birds the size of chickens are considered too small a game for them.