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I love those names! and I agree - this group is pretty great. I've learned more useful, helpful things in the past few weeks on here than I can count! About to go check my trap... I followed Mary's advice and put a concrete block on top. Good luck , and enjoy getting to know your new girls...

If you're using a Havahart (that's the only kind I have right now), be sure it's well staked down! I thought for sure I had everything dialed in last night: a few tent pins pounded in, the rear door secured with a metal rod, plus a plastic yogurt-type container (filled with dry catfood)...

I originally used a tin of anchovies, but the skunks like fish too. Then I got a box of cheap cat food (only cause the dog food was too fancy at my local market, heh) - raccoons love it. Also doesn't leave YOU smelling fishy.

Thanks for this info - I actually had no idea it was illegal here! And good luck with the tractor... I had one too, back when I had my big girls and new chicks. If it had been more predator proofed if might have worked, but for me it wasn't secure enough. With 2 predators, one could scare em...

eh, I save the long swims for the small fry like the red squirrels that seem to have multiplied exponentially every week. Someone else on here mentioned a skunk dispatch pole (you can google it), which is how I'd go if it happens again.

This is super interesting to me. Do you just buy powder and make a solution? How strong? How do you rig it to depress the plunger if you're using a pole? And do you have to bury it after? (ie, does the KCl stay in the system & make the carcass toxic to other carnivores, or can you just dump it...

! Nice & ugh. Wouldn't want to have to peel a skunk out of a rat trap... though that said, I now have a few around the base & on the roof of the coop.

Like Mary said below, I don't think you'd want to use anything bigger. I have an old single shot rifle - super simple, takes one bullet in the top chamber, no cartridges or anything fancy. I'm actually a terrible shot (we have other guns for use at the local range), but again, as Mary said, the...

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure why I did either...mostly I think because I was out of ammo and also because the skunk hadn't been the one mauling the coop, plus it was a real young/small one. In hindsight, I'm an idiot (not the first time I've figured that one out either ) but after killing...

Ditto here. Had a total massacre this past Sunday, and have spent this entire week cleaning up/rebuilding (coincidentally, I was schedule to pick up 6 new BBS Orpington pullets that same Sunday afternoon). Tore the coop & run down to the studs, and basically wrapped everything in 1/2" hardware...