- Nov 3, 2010
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I've had possums eat eggs, kill chicks, one 2 occasions one killed my meaties. Typically they will eat chicken feed and eat the eggs and not the chickens but I don't take my chances. I've lost too many to racoons and possums. Plus they are nasty disease ridden critters. They are thought to be the cause of EPM in horsesI was! I didn't go outside, though. My husband rode his motorcycle to work! Brrr! He said that's why he has the cold weather gear (it saves a lot of money on gas, so he wants to ride it as long as possible). I'll be glad when motorcycle season is over.
Are possums a threat to chickens? I ask because I read a very complimentary blog on possum last year. We had one on the deck last night, but I went out and yelled, "git! Git!" to it and it waddled off.