Yikes. Hope you catch the culprit too.
We lost a chicken last year. Something dug under the chickenwire hubby had buried in the ground around the perimenter. Not sure what it was but we replaced the perimeter buried wire and doubled the width. No issues since.
we hope to rechicken this summer, late summer, if the panic hoarders haven’t wiped out mcmurray.
Whatever we have is climbing over, and we have a live wire. It’s very upsetting. We’re about to run another life wire. We’ve lost several this spring.