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I had poor chicks with broken legs, missing wings, heads missing… Those raccoons killed 10 of my 15 juveniles, and I had to put down 3 more with severe injuries. Those possums can be pretty nasty predators. It was a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata), about 10 inches long from nose to tail tip, and brown in color — which indicated that it had died between spring and fall (they turn white in the winter). Foxes, coyotes, neighborhood dogs, racoons, skunks, and even cats can be a threat to your poultry. Much too close a call for my liking. He couldn’t escape in any direction. Best wishes and thank you for your comment!We have a ton of possums around here.
I would recommend small shotgun with lighter bird shot and full choke. Now I have another problem animal, and a scary story. I'm not sure if it was an ermine or a long tailed weasel as they look similar. I continued closing the chicken coop up before dusk to discourage further evening raids and we didn’t have any more problems with possums for the rest of the fall and winter…until just the other day.I scared a possum that had been eating eggs and it ran under the back steps to the pasture. Any one care to challenge my conclusions based on this evidence?
We need your amazing chicken photos for our 2021 Calendar! We have a chicken yard made of a dog pen and wire buried so nothing can dig under. I lost 26 chickens to possums. Glad your’s was dispatched quickly!We went for almost a year before we lost a chicken to a dog that we were fostering and two chickens to either a possum or a fox. Got rid of 5 adults and 7 or 8 babies I think within a couple months. but yes, I can imagine they would slither right under and electric fence! We have solar doors with light sensors into enclosed and covered runs and into hen houses. It wasn’t neighbors – it drove HIM crazy! 9:45.
Don’t know if they’ll eat chicks or not but glad they’re gone, the garden is safer. Haven’t seen any for a few years. I am contunie to leave cages and z-traps set.Just heard a my chickens in distress tonight. You may need to call in a licensed trapper to remove a nuisance animal to abide by the law. Sorry about your loss....Hate to tell you....but possums do that too. Now my birds are fenced as of this morning which makes for a much bigger feed bill.
Those guineas are quite the guarrd birds from what I hear! So sorry for your loss! Just tell the guys that Andre the Giant is in it. So thank you for this warning. If your coop is near water, a mink may be the culprit. We haven’t seen them on our property though.
Well if you were surviving from these birds you would be thinking different. 2 years ago a possom got in a pen and ripped the heads off 14 pullets; of course he couldn't find his way out either~~~so he, and all of his cousins since then, have met with the … We had 10, but one is a rooster. I know we have them. Thanks.If you have a weasel problem (and it could be, you may never actually see them), then you need fencing with smaller openings and it needs to be buried about a foot deep to keep them from burrowing under the fence.
- Duration: 9:45. Every chicken enthusiast dreads the potential predator attack. Eating the eggs out of our nest box is one thing, but that possum would have eventually started eating the chickens too.Anyone having problems with predators killing their chickens should do their research to see if they are allowed to use a firearm in their area. I realize that every predator is just trying to make a living in this world.
It bit the neck of each victim, or beheaded it completely, then went back for another without eating the last bird. I started using a live trap to catch them, and then they got a .22 to the head.Oh no! Tom shot it point blank in the head with the pellet gun and then unloaded another round just to be sure it wasn’t ‘playing possum.’The unfortunate possum looks like it is fairly young, probably from last year’s litter.
What a terrible way to go. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. So do I!If you want to learn homesteading skills, like raising chickens and preserving the harvest for winter, you’ve come to the right place. They don’t always cooperate, though.I too know just how possoms can be the undoing of a chicken house.
We captured them with cages, but not untill after another 15 laying hens were killed. You must log in or register to reply here. In a week I caught 2 raccoons, 2 possums, and 2 feral cats. He took the pellet gun with him just in case the possum had come back for more fresh eggs from the nest boxes. I had to put her down. This site uses cookies to track your purchases through Amazon. Unfortunately predators are just something to deal with when you have livestock I guess.Thanks for your comment! Possums are nasty critters…Thanks Farmlife Chick…I appreciate your kind words. Had lots of ground hogs several years ago and we live trapped them and shot them.
If a raccoon can gain entry into your chicken house, he will likely kill your birds and eat your eggs. It could be one of the offspring that was learning the ropes on our unlucky hens last September, if my theory is correct.
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