opossum

  1. H

    Possum daytime risk?

    I always put chicken food away at night. Last night I saw a possum eating crumbs off the ground. Now this morning an hour after sunrise, there are two possums snuggling and grooming 100 feet from my free-ranging chickens. The possums look pretty big, about 10 pounds each. I don't have any...
  2. H

    HELP Opossum Attack

    Our sweet girl pepper was attacked by an opossum last night in the coop. Thankfully I heard the commotion and got out there before it killed her, but she’s very shaken up and has some lacerations on her head. Many feathers removed as well. The main worry right now is that she isn’t opening...
  3. ShanaMcS

    Wheezing when breathing after 'possum attack

    Hello, last night an opossum got into our coop and tore out many chicken's feathers, but other than that they all seemed fine except for Millie. She was wheezing. Apart from feathers being plucked out, I don't see any blood on her. I tried massaging her throat and gave her water with olive oil...
  4. centrarchid

    Opossum Playing Dead

    Dog and I went to close up barn shortly after dark. We were also to get eggs left in basket. Opossum about 2/3 grown was walking about in a pen. It was likely already stuff on most of the eggs in the basket. It was the fattest and furriest opossum I have ever seen. Dog walked over to it in...
  5. Chickenchiquita

    Lost my new silkie to a predator and I am heartbroken-no body, no closure

    Hello all. I am weeping as I type this. I am in disbelief, I keep re-reading the title and going into shock when I realize what just happened. I came home from work tonight and immediately knew something was wrong. I just got a new job that requires me to work late nights, and I had been...
  6. Rhythmoflove_11

    HELP! Rooster attacked by a opossum!

    He's by himself at the moment. He has head and eye injuries. A few small chunks of flesh are missing from his head. All the head feathers are gone and he looks very bad. I'm new to chickens only had them since May, and I have no idea what to do. He's one of my favorites and I would appreciate...
  7. jadip4

    We caught the varmint .. now what ..

    Y'all. I had a broody hen that hatched out 9 adorable EE fluff balls for us on April 15. I shut mama bird and babies in our chicken run by themselves until the babies got a little bigger. Sunday night something climbed the post to our run, tore a 4" hole in the bird netting at the top and...
  8. HuskerHens18

    What track is this?

    I think it's an opossum, but I'm not 100% sure. These tracks are circling my chicken coop and came from the creek, which is where it returned. I had 1 person say raccoon and 1 say opossum, I'm leaning towards opossum but still making sure.
  9. webbysmeme

    That possum clawed one of my old girls! Help⁉️

    Here’s a picture of everything that I have. What can I do for her?
  10. Lyranonamous

    Suggestions for trail camera for predators

    Hi all We had an opossum in the coop two nights ago, which thankfully did not kill any of our chickens. He got in before we closed the door, and my husband discovered him when he went to lock up. I think he was only there a few minutes at best. He walked in the main coop door; our coop is...
  11. J

    Hen scalped by opossum

    My daughter went to collect eggs just as it was starting to get dark and when she opened the coop, she found that 5 hens were dead and 3 were injured and a opossum ran out. I had to humanly put down one because her neck was broken and was extremely torn up. One of our leg horns has some small...
  12. Charlamagne

    Introduction! or something.

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I've had chickens pretty much my whole life, starting at age 4 with my grandmas turken, named Urkle (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 9 (Speckles, Bob, Mohawk, Gold, Topaz, Bronze, Fudge Sauce, Butterscotch, and Emry)...
  13. L

    Rehome Hens in Tampa Florida

    I'm looking for a nice place to rehome a couple hens, locals farms that may want them. I enjoy having them and they are well taken care of but after having my second baby and returning to work I just don't have the time and energy to devote as much time to them as I would like. We are also...
  14. ShiftyShickens

    Valiant young rooster brings fight back to assailant

    so awhile back i had posted questions about the dangers of opossums. having taken care of a few over time i had felt confident my flock was safe, but alas... yesterday morning seemed normal with feeding time at dawn as usual, but as roll-call carried on it became clear someone was missing and in...
  15. T

    The worst day

    One of my roosters was killed tonight by an opossum. His name was Cocoa and he was a copper maran. He was my favorite. I had just gotten home from work and was getting ready to go outside and put everyone in for the night when my boyfriend called me and told me to get outside right away, there...
  16. 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...
  17. K

    Chicks Disappear Without a Trace

    Hello everybody,(I'm new) I have(had) 13 Black Australorp chicks, 1 rooster and 12 hens, all around 11 weeks old. I went out this morning to feed them and I only counted 11...2 were missing! I looked around their coop to see if there were any tracks or drag marks or feathers...NOTHING. I...
    • Kima Kiolena
    • Thread
    • chick death chick disappearance chicken attack help opossum predator predator attack predators predators-and-pests preditors
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  18. naivetefarm

    Fruit tree over run attracting predators

    So... I used to tractor my birds, but my home-made coop and run were very heavy and when I became pregnant last year, I decided to just park them permanently under a tree that had low branches so that the birds would have plenty of shade during out hot summers. Everything worked great last...
  19. Leine

    What Killed My Chicken?

    Earlier this year, I found the body of one of my standards in the run. Its (don't remember the gender) neck was completely stripped of feathers, and its chest was hollow (eaten). This happened through the chicken wire. I know we have raccoons, opossums, coyotes, foxes, etc., but does anyone...
    • Leine
    • Thread
    • chicken coyote eaten fox opossum predator raccoon run standard
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
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