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This is why I hate posting. I love people who read things and bring their soap boxes. If you do not know what you are talking about I would appreciate if you kept your opinion to yourself and create your own thread of ponderings. I relocated over 5 miles from my home in the middle of the...

It's been a busy week. I have three raccoons for my effort. This morning I had a late comer that was caught after I opened up the coops at 6:30AM. Thankfully it went for the bait in the cage trap before it went for the chicks or chickens. On this last release this afternoon I probably had...

I agree. Traps are going to stay set for quite a while. Especially since this guy was young I imagine there are others in the family still around.

Culprit from two nights ago (I hope) in my trap this morning

Sounds like a raccoon. I've had this several times and I ended up catching them eventually. Make sure your trap is large enough for a large raccoon to enter comfortably. They can get pretty big and strong. I have the large Havahart cages and I usually use leftover from the kills. It's not...

I think I caught the perpetrator last night. Does this look like the face of a killer? Unfortunately I think it is. It's a little guy compared to what usually gets caught. Didn't have the heart to kill him. After all, he's only doing what he needs to do to survive. So I drove him a few...

Thanks for all the ideas and advice. Anything is worth considering. I have set live traps around the coop tonight with pieces of poor Molly Brown in them to try and catch her killer. My wife named her Molly Brown after she was the sole survivor of the last slaughter in the coop which was...

Looking for some help to find out what is killing my poultry. I have had foxes and raccoons kill my chickens in the past so I know what their signs usually are. Lately my quail were killed off one or two at a time and there were no signs of forced entry into their pen and no large holes dug...