Coyote kills Shia LaBeouf's chickens

Actor SHIA LABEOUF has been left heartbroken after a wild coyote hopped his fence in Los Angeles and ate all of his pet chickens.

The Transformers star kept a flock of six birds in his backyard to promote a tranquil atmosphere at his Hollywood home, but he woke up over the weekend (18-19Aug12) to find a bloodbath on his lawn.

He tells late night host Jay Leno, "This weekend was rough... I woke up 5am... and it was just a massacre. I had six chickens, I was raising 'em, and I woke up, there was just blood everywhere. It was a (gory) Quentin Tarantino movie in my backyard... It looked like a shoot-out. Just chicken bodies everywhere...

"I was looking at (security) cameras and things trying to figure out what it was. Was it a snake? Was it a coyote? Was it a ninja? I didn't know what it was... Finally I figured out it was a coyote... I have an eight-foot fence and I saw it jump (the fence)."

And devastated LaBeouf insists he is too grief-stricken to replace the chicks and risk a similar tragedy happening in the future, adding, "They're gone. I'm done with it. I can't, it was too tragic."