weasels

Looking for some advice for dealing with weasels. We've had at least two attacks that have taken out 5 birds. We have a coops made largely of wood, with a door for the chickens to get in and out of, two plexiglass windows, some ventilation vents, and some hardware cloth below their roost to...

Usually my ducks are locked up each night in their predator proof house. Tonight they wouldn't go in and I figured one night out wouldn't hurt... well I heard my ducks honking and went out to check... stupid weasel in the pen with them and two of the ducks have blood around their necks. It...

The first time it happened was a couple of weeks ago when i ealked out to find one of my hens up against the fence eith its head pulled off. Then two days ago i went out to feed and onr of my ducks had its head and neck almost pulled off but not quite. Then yesterday morning i walk into my coop...

I'm about to build a run for my bantams. I keep reading horror stories, so have researched a lot about predator proofing. Where I live it is forested and there are hawks, weasels, minks, racoons, possums, bobcats, neighboring loose dogs, coyotes, and occasional bear. I have never seen a bear...

I have been battling an unknown predator since late summer. My coop is over 2 feet of the ground and completely sealed. The fencing for the run around the coop is buried into the ground several inches and I piled logs and rocks around the entire run to deter anything from trying to dig around...

Help! I recently had 3 chickens killed and eaten. When I went outside, I saw only one of them laying there. It had no head, no feathers, no meat. All it had was rib bones and chicken legs laying there and a little blood. But, I want to know what type of animal most likely did that...

We have a flock of 14 layers (2-4yrs old) who are suddenly down to 0-2 eggs daily. My first thought was molting (we live in CT), but in my 15+ yrs of owning a flock I've never seen such a drastic decrease in laying d/t molt. Their behavior also seems off, skittish and bunching in corners of the...

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...

About a month ago, before I knew about this website, I lost 13 bantam chickens/chicks and 7 brand new, just from the brooder, Silver Penciled Wyandotte's. I was devastated because I love my chickens and I hate losing them. there was only one time that I found a chick laying dead in run and it...