Devastated!

what could do this?! We lost 1 of our girls today (still holding up some hope maybe she is hiding somewhere)- something literally pulled our hot wire off and ripped off our hardware cloth to get to my girls this morning! I think this happened around 7 am. Our Hotwire holder was literally ripped off the wood and chewed in 2 and something put claws into the hardware cloth then ripped a huge hole and pulled it down (I already pulled it up for the photo so the girls wouldn’t come out again)- it did not pull the cloth off at a seam- this was literally pulled apart.

I’m heartbroken but so thankful none of my other girls (or 1 rooster) seem hurt minus a few pulled feathers and being upset. I found a few walking around near the coop/run and the rest of the girls were inside still. There’s some feathers on the ground and nothing else anywhere. I will be walking our entire property today to look for her or her body 😔

Just sick with worry about them now too!! Hubs will patch up the wire and hot wire today and I’ll put my outside ring camera (with alerts on) we have on our rabbit building outside my girls but what else can we do? Our rabbits are in a building but my daughter has show birds in a small run right next to my chickens with almost zero protection like my girls have and nothing even looked at them (she has them in a temporary housing for the show season)- I tried to do literally everything I could think of to keep my girls safe and I failed them almost as soon as we moved (been here since Oct/Nov) 😭😭😭😭

We later found out there has been mountain lions in our area (apparently they took down a cow this week)- could this be a mountain lion? Something else?

Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Please be kind I’m literally heartbroken I failed my girls and I was trying to do everything right to keep them safe 😭 (cross posted on fb)