Unknown predator....

Huh, that is strange because it never showed up here this weekend. All of our neighbors shot off fireworks all weekend long but it was quiet last night and still no sign of it. I am hoping either somebody else shot it or all the noise scared it off permanently.

Sorry about your guineas though! Y'all a a long ways north of us, we're down beside the Ouachita National forest.

Predator is now part of the pavement.A bobcat was run down by some vehicle on the highway. I am hoping this creature was my serial killer.

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I'd put my money on it being a bobcat. They are some strong critters.

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Glad yours is gone Big Dave!

Still no sign of ours. I sure hope somebody got it.

Well we lost a duck and all the chicken eggs and all the duck eggs last night. (The duck was setting on eggs.) We found one chicken egg shell in the coop and all the chickens were fine. We found one duck egg shell and one duck wing in the duck pen. So it ate at least 11 eggs and the whole entire duck. Sigh....

The ducks are in a completely different area and so we didn't have anything set up for getting prints down there.

One day I was playing in my garden and in the woods behind me I heard a big cat SCREAM/GROWL. Scared the peegeesus out of me. I have no idea what it was but it was definitely a big cat.. Sounded to loud to be a lynx or bobcat.
OH and the other day in the middle of the day my dogs treeed a bobcat. I saw it jump from the tree and hit the ground with a thud and took off with my coon hound running behind it.

It was a mother racoon and 2 babies. Sometimes homesteading really sucks.... sigh....

Yup, see, that's what I figured. I've had the same thing happen twice before and each time she left nothing behind. Racoons can be very clever and sneaky and plan things out ahead of time. The third time she came around she had been patiently watching from a tree while one of my muscovies was hatching out her clutch and this time she brought her two babies with her straight to the nest as the ducklings were emerging from the nest. We were waiting for her too though and actually managed to corner and trap her and the young ones. We called wild-life conservation and they relocated them.

I hope you don't have any more trouble, glad you finally discovered what your predator was.

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Trail camaras are pretty inexpensive and you can set them up so they only take a picture when the motion detector is triggered...

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If it is a bobcat, kill it, skin it, eat it. The man traps and we ate one this year, cooked it in BBQ sauce in the crockpot and it tasted like BBQ pulled pork. Of course, everything tastes good in BBQ sauce...