What will kill chickens and rabbits and only eat their head.. completely missing head and neck, the body is left untouched, not even head bones left. I think it may be alians flying in at night in a small saucer and only have room for the head and neck to take with them... what say youall??

I would be asking if someone had lost a ferret.

Cat

Many predators eat the head first as it contains high amounts of fat .
I have seen hawks eat only the heads and
Late in our Salmon runs many bears only eat the brains and the skin

I was always told this was the work of a mink.

raccoon . they will tease a chicken to stick its head through a fence then eat the head and neck. sometimes they will stretch the neck out double.

An Owl will.

I had it happen to smaller chickens and ducks several times.
Always domestic dogs killing for sport.

owls

Weasel or Mink.

This is what tore up some of our chickens a few years ago. The 'fire ID'd the feathers as great horned.

What do your neighbors do in their spare time?

Raccoons will do that.

Or skunk

Tory Lane

Glad you got that cleared up Hubert.

Could be a chupacobra.

My neighbors better not be using hen pheasant feathers in their headgear. They won't be getting any tomatoes if they do.

Owl. Knew a guy that raised pheasants who had this problem. And of course owls are protected.

Carnival geeks.

Found a gobbler in the woods with no head, looked like a clean cut. When I asked around, I was told an owl did it. I had a hawk grab my turkey decoy by the head once, I imagine their talons would be sharp enough for a clean cut.

My neighbor had several chickens decapitated. Turned out to be a great horned owl.

Kept finding the occasional headless rabbit carcass in our back yard back when we lived out in the country. Rabbits congregated there after dark often to feed on apples fallen from our apple tree. Couldn't figure out what was doing it until one night I happened to hear some frantic animal squealing outside, grabbed a flashlight and caught a big owl in the process in the light beam. Later on I found where it had a huge old nest built high up in a giant old oak tree in the woods back behind our property.

I’ve seen coons just eat the heads too

I am pretty sure it is raccoons. I put a trail cam out but have not caught anything yet. I’ve lost three chickens in the last month.

Hooker with a strong gag reflex.

By contrast, a few years ago I got up one morning to find a rabbit head, no body, on the living room floor. The cat found the dog door.

I've had the opposite twice recently. All of the squirrel is gone, except for the head. The cut is as if the head was severed with a knife. I've watched dogs eat ground squirrels I had shot or trapped, they eat the entire animal. Birds are quite messy. I can see bobcat eating the carcass, but the head is too messy/hard for their delicate cat sensibilities? We have bobcats roaming our neighborhood. We also have coyotes.

Yep

So far, aliens in a small space ship seems the most plausible answer.

Once ran a concrete batch plant that stood about 110' tall with a conveyor belt and catwalk running up to the top to feed the plant.
An owl had built a nest up top and we mostly worked around it to let it do it's thing. One day I'm walking up the catwalk and the entire length was littered with headless gophers, rats, mice, ground squirrels and moles. Surrounding the nest were piles of headless rodents waiting to be fed to the owlets.

Creepy

+1

My Labrador has done it twice that I know of. That's the only two that I aware of her catching. She has no interest in the body

Ozzy Osbourne

I was mowing my father-in-law's grass one day and saw a rabbit with no head. Went out there the next day to pick it up and throw it in the woods, and the damn thing was gone.

Ohno A headless rabbit running around,, don't go out at night without a 44 mag.

I was "taught" that weasels would bite the throat and lap up the blood.

That aside, I like the owl theory.

Got an eyeful when I googled that one!
Damn.

My guess would also be an owl. They will land on the limb next to a roosting chicken and just reach over and take it's head off.

I've watched mink do it. Am sure some other animals would do the same.

Yep, owls.

Walk around the big blackbird roosts at the local malls and you’ll find a few headless corpses.

I’m getting on the owl bandwagon.!!!!

Around here, possums will do it. Roof’s pic suggests the head is taken because that’s what sticks through the fence. Lots of stuff will do that.

Chupacabra or some small aliens in a small spaceship fly in at night and get full.

Think it's weird now, wait until you find the collection of itty-bitty shrunken heads.

Most definitely.