My neighbour and I also lost chickens the same way you did. They have the best chicken house and run a person could wish for. They blamed another neighbours dog for taking the head off the chicken - no way it could have gotten into the run and this dog would go in my chicken house with me and sit in my yard with the chickens/ducks wandering around it. This dog got killed on the highway and a few days later, I had a chicken killed with just it's head gone. I searched on the net and on this site and the suggestions were, coon, mink (which we have on the beach) or weasle. I gave my mother hen and 8 baby chicks to my daughter, who has a 9 acre farm a few klms north of us. She had the perfect little house for her, a run that was fenced in with a wire roof over the top of the whole run. The grandson and I dug down and put crumpled wire all around the bottom of the cage wire. She was very very safe. My daughter phoned one morning, the hen was dead. Some animal had dug under the front of the little house and had """ chewed """ the plywood that was into the ground, facing towards the run, there was a good size hole and "Henny's" head was gone. I know how you feel loosing your friend but there will be another to take it's place. Good Luck with your chickens.

ok I feel stupid...Yes, they were in some potting soil that i bought that says it feeds for 3 months.So I guess that's what they are.I'm glad it's fertilizer and not some kind of critter that I needed to take care of,lol.Thanks,TD

i'll try to get a closeup. It really looks like a sort of shell on the outside of the one still intact. Also, they are kinda slimey. I don't know what I was thinking about snake eggs. these are way too big for that. silly me. Thanks for your reply.

Not a weasel nor a stoat. It is too big and "shaggy" for that. The only other mustelids in the Netherlands are two species of Marten and it isn't either of those. In the IR light used to film this, you can see that the pelage over most of the body is lighter hairs with dark tips. Furthermore, it is darker towards the posterior part of the body. Those characteristics are a match for Polecat. The only other option I can see is that it is a feral Ferret. I hope not.