Last night just after dusk, when I went to put the chickens in, I found one of our hens dead with its neck eaten inside the fox-proof pen. Obviously not a fox and the hen was young and healthy.
Photo of the hen carcass.
Photo of the hen carcass.
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Anyone know what could have done this? Is this the work of a weasel, stoat or pine martin (pine martins were recently released very nearby as part of a reintroduction to Dartmoor).
I might ask Santa for one of those wildlife cameras. Has to be some sort of mustelid, I think. Would love it to be a pine martin!
Won't be trapping because we're in a national park and whatever it is is supposed to be here.