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FrozenChicken

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Apr 1, 2007
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I see at your site listed the common predators of poultry but don't see 3 particular predators not listed. The Fisher has 3 small cousins that are equally devasting when they get into a chicken coop.


Spruce Marten :http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/marten.html


Ermine : http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/weasel.html

Mink : http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/mink.html

It's odd to see Fishers listed when these three predators are far more common where I live and I live only 6 miles from the green zone( Crown land).
 
I more not on the list in Black Bear of course. I had one rip a hole in my broilers pen last year so he could feed on the nice feeder of chop. Thankfully the birds were locked up at the time.
 
FrozenChicken said:
I more not on the list in Black Bear of course. I had one rip a hole in my broilers pen last year so he could feed on the nice feeder of chop. Thankfully the birds were locked up at the time.
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A neighbor about a mile from me went out to investigate a noise in his coop and was greeted by a 3 yr old grizzly coming out the door to meet him. I won't go into details in difference to the readership here, but he was lucky...the bear was not.
 
FrozenChicken said:
I see at your site listed the common predators of poultry but don't see 3 particular predators not listed. The Fisher has 3 small cousins that are equally devasting when they get into a chicken coop.


Spruce Marten :http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/marten.html


Ermine : http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/weasel.html

Mink : http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/mink.html

It's odd to see Fishers listed when these three predators are far more common where I live and I live only 6 miles from the green zone( Crown land).
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Those links gave me 404 errors.
 
Hahaha! Sorry I bumped this thread. I didn't notice the last post was 8 years ago! Oh, my....

But speaking of predators, my friend and neighbor lost 14 birds to the same skunk over a 10 day period. She finally caught it trying to get her duck, and told me at first she thought it was a wolverine, it was that big!

A week later I was able to trap it. The average weight of a big boar striped skunk is about 8 lbs. This one weighed in at 14 pounds! So she was half right!
 
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I think just about any of the weasle family is the worst thing you can have around your chickens . They will kill as many as possible as they can in one shot and cache what they don't eat right away. A coyote will grab one then run for the hills :)
 
Worst event I've heard of was in a nearby village. A female cougar teaching her kits to hunt took out a guy's 20 Guinea Hens and a dozen chickens in one night. Not hungry...just practicing catching and killing things.
 
FrozenChicken said:
I think just about any of the weasle family is the worst thing you can have around your chickens . They will kill as many as possible as they can in one shot and cache what they don't eat right away. A coyote will grab one then run for the hills :)
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Normally I would lose only one and then I was aware I had a predator and could lock them up for a while.
 
I just remember I had a small batch of chicks (about a month old) in a little fence with a topper. A weasle got in there and killed all but 2 of them one afternoon. And when we were kids a spruce marten got into our chicken coop and killed 25 hens in one evening. Both times just chickens dead with their heads missing :( Sometimes there is just no warning.
 

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