Leave carcass in coop area. Check pen every couple hours concentrating search near carcass. Grab opossum by tail, remove and dispatch. Better yet upgrade your coop so bugger can not get in. Should be easy.
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Leave carcass in coop area. Check pen every couple hours concentrating search near carcass. Grab opossum by tail, remove and dispatch. Better yet upgrade your coop so bugger can not get in. Should be easy.
I prefer to trap and shoot while in the trap. Another BYCer was in her barn when she came upon one. Only thing handy was a pitch fork. You should never let one get away to come back another time so she picked up the pitch fork and pinned it on the barn wall. I saw the foto. Don't know if I could do that. But I can drown and shoot.
I got home from work around 11 pm, last night. My dog and I walked out to the chicken coop, to lock the girls up, in their apartment. My dog started going crazy and I shined my flashlight up on the roof of my coop and there was a rather large opossum staring at me. I yelled and hissed and it eventually went away. Chickens are fine. My question, I put my chickens in their coop before I go to work and lock down the coop door. I have doubled all screening on coop. What else can I do to keep them safe?
I wacked 12 of them (3 large adults) and 1 female with 9 babies - blut trama over their heads with a spade shovel works great.
No matter how much coop upgrading you do - unless your coup is made of all metal (even then I've seen them pry and bite through mesh. They'll also naw through boards etc. Save your bullets and grab a shovel or pitch fork. They're pretty slow but knarly and smelly.
My coop is wood and 1/4" hardware cloth covers all openings. Nothing has ever gotten in, haven't lost a bird to a predator since the days when I still free ranged, 18 years ago.
Mine is made of the same and haven't list a bird either. But possums are not welcome.