That is the site I was looking at too- very informative! We DID catch a opossum last night-FINALLY. Probably not even THE opossum, but he was skulking around my chicken pens, so that was his bad choice. I felt kind of bad for him though...
Pretty sure fox is the culprit in the chicken attack...
I have never seen a stray dog around here- our neighbors are few and far between, and I dont think any of them even have dogs-have never seen any anyway. These dont look like "sport killings" like a dog would do, and they were too clean as well- dogs tend to rip stuff up. The one BO was eaten a...
We do have coyotes, I have heard them way back in the wooded area, though I have never seen one come close to the property. We have a big dog who I thought acted as a deterrent to them. He was locked in the goose pen last night though to protect them as tehy do not have a secure area to be...
Pretty sure we are looking at a fox for this attack now from the research I have been doing-occasionally they take a head, often they just break the neck and store it in a shallow depression for later. They hunt in pairs, which would make it more feasible to explain the missing chickens. We did...
Two weeks ago, something (opossum or mink we suspect) killed 5 ducks, ate the abdominal cavities only. We have set the trap every night since- nothing. Tonight, I had to leave a few rebellious hens who would not follow the rest into the barn loose in the yard with dusk approaching to go pick up...