opossoms

  1. Lazy Farmer

    "WHILE YOUR CHICKENS ARE SLEEPING" Video Series

    Hey kids! Haven't had much time for social media these last few months but have found an interesting way to share our endeavors without crashing my schedule. It is the beginning of spring- meaning.. PREDATORS! We have accumulated a pile of clips with motion detection/night vision cams...
    • Lazy Farmer
    • Thread
    • chicken coop chicken pen chickens coon live trap night vision opossoms predator trail cam
    • Replies: 46
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  2. WannaBeHillBilly

    Take that Raccoons! In your ugly faces Opossums! Stay out of the house Mouse!

    Hah! No more ripped duck-food bags anymore! No more mice-nests in the straw! No more 'possum poop in the cracked corn! Tadaaa! - Today i finished to build the metal shack on my work-platform. Durable steel-panels with ¼" hardware cloth under the floor, so nothing can come in and steal the...
    • WannaBeHillBilly
    • Thread
    • duck food spoilage metal shed mice opossoms raccoon spoilage two left hands
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. TheBlueShepard

    Coons n Possums n Dogs

    I lost 8 hens and 3 roosters to neighborhood dogs last year. The area is divided between the neighbors who refuse to contain their k9s and the neighbors who have to deal with it. The county animal control reccomended to me personally, "next time, shoot it and bury it and save a phone call. $0.35...
  4. Lyranonamous

    Photos of your predator proof coop/run please!

    We just trapped a 5th opossum on our land and I would love to see photos of coops/runs that are really predator proof. Any info (or photos) of what predators have been unsuccessful at getting to your chickens would also be helpful. Some of you have mentioned keeping chicks safe with bobcats and...
  5. frankflonker95

    Pest

    Does anyone know how to catch an opossum?
  6. majortaylor

    Opossum wound, which antibiotics?

    my favorite hen got attacked by a opossum 2 nights ago. It got her by the wing and body and the bone on the wing is exposed. We got her right away and flushed the wounds with peroxide, irrigated them to get the debris out, rubbed betadine on them and finished off with triple antibiotic cream...
  7. ChickenHobbyFarmer

    holes dug under chicken coop ID?

    Hi everyone. I needed to get some information. I have seen a raccoon, a possum in my chicken coop area & caught one possum with a trap. My new visitors are smart and I haven't been able to trap them & now something has dug a hole under my coop. the hole was about 3 inches in diameter and at...
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