weasel

Hi all. This is a bit of a long read but hopefully my story will help some others learn from our mistakes and help keep your own flocks safe. We also welcome any advice on hopefully helping our one injured hen recover. Some of our flock including our beloved rooster Leonard who sadly was one...

So she was my first ever chicken and first chicken that ever died. We found her dead with her back end gone. It was nothing else but her top end. It also ate her intestines including the part where she produces her egg. It was no blood or any feather scattered around on the ground so I’m...

Soooo I went out to check the chickens today and let them out and I discovered a bunch of empty egg shells on the ground outside the coop, appears to be about 6 eggs with yolk still pretty fresh in some, and what appears to be raccoon prints on top of the nest box??? But I cannot for the life of...

We found our hen 30 feet from the coop dead with no visible wounds. What would cause this? I also have an automatic door that closes 20 minutes after sunset. The door was broken- so we think she was crushed? And moved 30 feet? Is that possible? We did find blood by door. A small amount. Door is...

My chicken coop is literally right next to my house. If I'm not mistaken weasels will not travel around us right? Especially if it's a house full of people and four dogs?

I had thought everything was good and dandy lately with the weasel but on my first day off everything is, in fact, not good and dandy. Seems it’s been getting hungry and the wild rabbit it had the other day wasn’t enough (I found patches of fur in the tractor shelter beside the skids of...

So what does a fox kill typically look like? It must have been interrupted? No other injury beyond a fatal neck puncture. I Lost my best layer the other day. It was very overcast and rather dark out midday. I must have just missed the kill by an hour or two as she was still warm ☹️. She had...

Does anybody have any advice about trapping a weasel? We have lost 5 ducks to it in the last 5 weeks. We have rat traps (one loose and one in a weasel box) and a live trap set and baited with raw chicken every night and in the morning when we go out the trap hasn't been sprung but the bait is...

I had an ermine wipe out my entire flock of 10! I have my new flock arriving (of 15....) on Valentine’s Day but we have YET to catch/kill this SOB! We have a hart trap set up, but we think he is too light as he set it off... but I saw him jumping between the rafters. We’ve secured the coop more...

okay so I had a male and female Pekin. I took care of them at night and came back the next morning to only see the male outside. My female has been sitting on a nest for about two weeks, and was so dedicated I had to get in their own and give her food and water. So I got in and crawled into the...

Hi. Last year a weasel killed about 20 young turkeys, a full grown adult turkey, and some ducks on our farm. We hired a professional trapper (We'll call him Dick) to try to catch the weasel. Dick used leg-hold traps. A relative (John) – who has a trapping permit – also set a couple of traps...

I have a weasel that is killing my chickens and fowl, I have set a live trap but is there any other way to get rid of it? Due to the setup of my farm, fencing is not an option. I am a little frightened of it as it is not shy in the least and will do the dirty deeds while I am in the barn. It has...