possum

My fully grown hen dissapeared last night and I have no idea if she’s alive or not. I found feathers and a tiny bit of blood near the coop and some more a little further but no body and no body parts. I’ve dealt with raccoons before and usually they leave a mess! But it’s like she disappeared...

Hi everyone, This morning, a couple meters away from the chicken coop, I saw a pigeon/dove that had its insides completely scooped out... It was very sad to see. I've never seen a bird attacked like this in my backyard before. We have feral cats, raccoons, skunks, and possums in the area (with...

Hey everyone. Thanks in advance for reading my post. Sunday of last week, we were putting the chickens to bed, and forgot about 1 of the broods. They were outside in the chicken run inside an enclosed cage area. Apparently there was a little opening on top and next morning we come to see that...

Hey y'all! There've been possums in my yard ever since we moved in (4 years) and they've never caused an issue before. We've found a total of 4 adults and one baby. We usually find them from my small dog (14 yo Schnoodle) barking his head off at them. When we find them, we usually shoo them off...

my dad went to close up the chooks earlier and as soon as he stepped out the back door, heard scuffling and the 9 week olds were crying. the older birds were out of their coop and seemed to be just as worried as the babies. he picked up the pullets to put them to bed when out the corner of his...

Hi everyone, This morning I checked inside the feeder and found poop. It looks to be a cross between possum and cat poop. We have a small possum that visits the property every now and then and has been here the past few days. My cat spends quite a bit of time at the coop hunting mice but I have...

Hello, last night an opossum got into our coop and tore out many chicken's feathers, but other than that they all seemed fine except for Millie. She was wheezing. Apart from feathers being plucked out, I don't see any blood on her. I tried massaging her throat and gave her water with olive oil...

What is your preferred method of predator disposition and why? This excludes barrier enhancement and applies to predators who must be dealt with directly either by deterrents or hands-on methods. Do refrain from trying to proselytize others to your method or championing one view or the other...

I lost 8 hens and 3 roosters to neighborhood dogs last year. The area is divided between the neighbors who refuse to contain their k9s and the neighbors who have to deal with it. The county animal control reccomended to me personally, "next time, shoot it and bury it and save a phone call. $0.35...

I think it's an opossum, but I'm not 100% sure. These tracks are circling my chicken coop and came from the creek, which is where it returned. I had 1 person say raccoon and 1 say opossum, I'm leaning towards opossum but still making sure.

Recently we caught a possum in our box trap. He would sneak around our coop at night looking for feed. My husband called his dad who said he wouldn’t hurt the chickens, so my husband released him. I’m second guessing his decision and would like to know the experience of others. A little back...

We had a possum get in our coop yesterday and my girl got bit but we stopped it from getting any more serious. The others were just scared crazy, my poor roo is in a state. Sapphire seems good, I just want to know how I would go about keeping it clean, dressing, should I take her to the vet...

Come time to roost the chickens for the night, one did not show up. Our rooster is not terribly diligent. We went looking in the gathering darkness and found her under a building, where the chickens like to hang out to escape heat or rain. She'd been killed, and the predator only ate her head...

Hello all. For the last several months I've been getting a bunch of broken egg shells in my laying box. I thought it was one of my hens for a long time. I even increased the calcium levels in case they were wanting more. It turns out that a possum has been visiting nightly to snatch my eggs...