My chickens and guineas free range. Sounds like yours are in a fenced
enclosure.
Some ideas:
Sprinkle powdered lime around the hen house. Maybe you can get some tracks to identify what it is and where it gets in.
Leave a radio playing in the hen house on talk radio if you can get it.
Make some sort of scarecrow, but putyour dirty shit on it each day when you come home for the fresh scent.
The dog might help. I lost some birds to my LGD when she first got here this summer, but now she is OK with the birds. She is usually not where the chickens are when whatever comes around. But since yours are penned up, any dog should bark if something comes up.
Do you have an electric fencer?
As far a what the predator is, doesn't a weasel work at night? Mine is a fox/coyote/stray dog and maybe also a bobcat. I found the kill site with feathers, but the bird was gone. Maybe yours just ate the head cause it had to get out quick and couldn't drag the body with?
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