Bizarre Possum Episode

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

You need a catch pole with a noose on the end(dog catch pole) Put the noose around their neck and drag them out .They can't bite you.

Interesting... I'll look into it.

 

[Peoples]

This spring, I had the craziest thing happen. Has this (or something similar) happened to anyone else?
I was shutting my birds into the coop and once again reveling that I'd been able to kick the ducks out full time on the pond. At this time, I had six ducks: Bellatrix, Narcissa, Alice, Uncas, Tasslehoff, and Phoebe. All girls. We thought Uncas was a drake, but we were sorely dissapointed.
I walked over to the pond to count the ducks, and I found that I was missing Alice. I didn't think anything of it, she was probably laying an egg somewhere.
Next morning, I walked into the coop to let everyone out, and there was a mass of feathers behind a bucket where the ducks sometimes lay. Well, someone was molting or something. Maybe one of the newer chickens decided it was a great spot to lay. I grabbed my egg basket and stepped forward and what I saw in the bucket made me jump out of my skin. My family made sure the possum didn't come back. But poor Alice was in a heap behind the bucket, hardly touched, but split open!
Has anyone else had a possum sleep in there coop? Because I think that's just freaky.

I had a possum go into my coop and kill my girl where she slept. Found her dead the next day. Possum will come in at night to take eggs. And also a known preditor of chickens as well. They can fit into a 3inch by 3 inch space to get in. Sorry for your loss. I was heart broken.

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

I had a possum go into my coop and kill my girl where she slept. Found her dead the next day. Possum will come in at night to take eggs. And also a known preditor of chickens as well. They can fit into a 3inch by 3 inch space to get in. Sorry for your loss. I was heart broken.

I'm so sorry! I think this is the first time a possum has killed one of mine, but I've had a possum in the chicken pen. I've heard they'll rip a chicken through a mesh fence, but I never really believed it. Not that long after the duck incident, a possum paid the pen a visit again. We had a problem hen out there for the night, and when I came by in the morning, she was quite ripped.

 

[Peoples]

I'm so sorry! I think this is the first time a possum has killed one of mine, but I've had a possum in the chicken pen. I've heard they'll rip a chicken through a mesh fence, but I never really believed it. Not that long after the duck incident, a possum paid the pen a visit again. We had a problem hen out there for the night, and when I came by in the morning, she was quite ripped.

Racoons are rhe ones who will pull a chicken through fencing and shred. The possum ate on my chickens breast and crop area but left the rest in tack. Perhaps you have racoon maybe? Set a live trap with cat food wet and see what ya get. I have gotten at least three possums and one racoon and neighbors house cat.

 

[Peoples]

Racoons are rhe ones who will pull a chicken through fencing and shred. The possum ate on my chickens breast and crop area but left the rest in tack. Perhaps you have racoon maybe? Set a live trap with cat food wet and see what ya get. I have gotten at least three possums and one racoon and neighbors house cat.

If a possum is in your pen it is a matter of time before it will kill a hen

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Racoons are rhe ones who will pull a chicken through fencing and shred. The possum ate on my chickens breast and crop area but left the rest in tack. Perhaps you have racoon maybe? Set a live trap with cat food wet and see what ya get. I have gotten at least three possums and one racoon and neighbors house cat.

Maybe. I'm not entirely sure. We haven't had issues with the wildlife in a couple of months, except a mother fox who came through. It's spring. It's normal. Thanks for all the info!

 

[cassie]

Hi,

Thanks for your recomendations, but my coop's not the issue. The door was open long after the possum decided to take a nap, and I shut the door when it was still light outside. I think it's bizarre that the possum would meander in during the day, and only kill one.

Maybe that's all he wanted. Now if that had been a raccoon, it would have been a whole different story. I have seen them wipe out a whole coop in just one night.

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Maybe that's all he wanted. Now if that had been a raccoon, it would have been a whole different story. I have seen them wipe out a whole coop in just one night.

Evil masked bandits. We don't hesitate to get rid of them.

 

[Peoples]

Maybe that's all he wanted. Now if that had been a raccoon, it would have been a whole different story. I have seen them wipe out a whole coop in just one night.

Yes possums are usually nocturnal hunters due to better eye site at night. But in my research I have read that they can hunt in day if sick or if nursing young ones in the spring. Needing food to sustain nursing their young. Killing one bird is for a meal. Weasels kill for sport and will take out an entire flock in one night.

 

[Dragon Slayer Trinket]

Yes possums are usually nocturnal hunters due to better eye site at night. But in my research I have read that they can hunt in day if sick or if nursing young ones in the spring. Needing food to sustain nursing their young. Killing one bird is for a meal. Weasels kill for sport and will take out an entire flock in one night.

Never seen a weasel. Hope I never will. Long live the flock!