I always like to credential myself first, so here goes...my first chickens came when I was five years old. Those were killed by a dog. In the decades since we have raised most types of poultry for show and also keep egg and meat chickens. During that time a lot of different predators have had a whack at us, so.....
First. The other incident is different from this one. Birds were carried off without a trace and dogs were implicated. No reason to assume this killer is the one who did the last killing.
Second. Six foot fence is high but some dogs can get over it. Not likely though. If you have a dog of your own, this is the first one I would look at if it was loose with the birds. After that you have to look at what could get inside the fence easily and is most common in your area. There are fishers out east but not thinking this is a common animal. Mink are common. Regular weasel is a tiny creature. Killing 25 chickens in short time would be asking a lot of a weasel. Members of weasel family leave a musky smell. Do you smell anything? I'll tell you what I think, and you can do what you want with it. 90 out of a 100 times it is a racoon. They kill everything they can catch, usually eat a bit of one chicken and then it is all about eating the heads. Can climb over anything and break into most anything. The debris scattered around was likely the chickens themselves trying to escape. Unless you keep your birds in a closed building with pens that have heavy wire on sides and top, you have to be there at dusk to close up. Everything else, including electric wires and those "red eye" devices, will eventually fail you.
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