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Well, if you catch a skunk, disguise yourself by holding a blanket in front of yourself so it can't see you. What you do beyond that is your call! 🤣

What did you use for bait? We caught a raccoon once (years ago). I think we used tuna. Since that was successful, we set the trap again using the same bait. That night we caught a skunk! :barnie:he:eek: I have heard that raccoons like marshmallows but skunks do not. I do not know whether this is...

But ... if you leave your chicken coop door OPEN, you still need to find a way to keep the varmints away. So, @All4Eggz , how's the 'possum-repelling going?

The best way I know, Ben, is don't attract them. So ... don't have food scraps of any kind anywhere near your coop or run. This may mean not tossing your kitchen food scraps out to your birds, or at least no more than you know they will clean up, and raking up what they leave before dusk. Have a...

Your neice, at age 3, is a pretty good little artist.

Maybe some small critter got in your trap and ate the bait. Like a rat. Or ... a snake, or a mink. Something that fit through the bars. Tripped the trigger but got out the way it got in.

We had a pair of black rat snakes living under our coop that grew to over five feet long and big around as my leg, eating our eggs! No place for snakes around my chickens, that's why I have cats.