nice. My bucket trap has yet to get it. It prefers to get into the coop itself despite me chasing it out every night. I would imagine it'd go for my bucket trap outside the coop. I filled it with sunflower seeds and put peanut butter!
i'm very angry as I chased it down today (for the first...
also, i couldn't find anything upon inspection. it's hard to see skin under all those feathers. I'll just watch and see if one starts acting differently
my poison block's gone after my second attempt to whack it last night so it's hopefully dying off somewhere. It bit one of my girls b/c i found dried blood on my nesting box as well as on the food trough. I don't know where the wound is or which one it is. I'll need to do a thorough...
I got one the good old fashioned way today, with my bat. They didn't fall for the bucket trap I made. I didn't have a spoke or a wire hanger so I made a raft with a pipe sticking up with peanut butter on it. It's still in the middle of the bucket, so I hoped for them to reach for it and fall in...
i saw two today! first time. I tossed a poison block onto the poop tray UNDER my chicken floor, so there's no risk of them getting it. I found them hiding in the poop drawers so I left their route open so they can get back in and die like the pests they are.