skunk

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...

So we have been working on a nice 84 sq feet chicken run for our 5 hens. Right now we are using those wimpy green posts and fencing with strawberry netting over the top to keep out a hawk that has taken to perching on the top of our coop once and a while. (we actually had a near loss, I was...

We had skunks that we think live under our shed because we see them walking around in the front lawn every other night. We also have 2 ducks that are about 4/5 months old a male pekin and a female roen duck. The skunks haven't been a problem so far but this morning I walk out into my front yard...

For the life of me, I do not know how this critter got in my live trap. Our back yard is fenced/walled off, and spaces under the fence are closed off with hardware cloth. For a long while, the only things that could get in our back yard were cats, and they had to jump. So here is this adorable...

A while back a possum attacked my old blind hen, you all helped me with her. In that same post, I posted some pics of my little dogs eyes that had been badly scratched. His eyes are still healing. Just now he got sprayed in the eyes by a skunk that was eating eggs in the coop! How do I clean his...

Ignore the loss of eggs for a minute...all of my goose eggs plus some of the chicken eggs. For a week now, something has been going into the chicken run and killing one to two chickens per day. It doesn't eat much or any, for that matter. It would slit the throat, open the neck and sometimes...

I regret to say that I attended a wedding last weekend and came back around 11pm to close my free-ranging chickens in their coop. I was horrified to come home and find: first, what I perceived to be a skunk slither out of one of the nesting boxes; second, several chicken corpses within a 20-ft...

Thought this might be useful/amusing for other members regarding our recent victory (fingers crossed) over a skunk family. Lost one pullet last spring to what we thought was a skunk (judging by smell). Coop is inside the barn, and they run free outside during the day. We had one that always...