Call Ducks Finally Hatched

[18angovem]

Ok, I need some help guys... So as some of you know I recently built an all metal aviary with welded wire roof and sheet metal perimeter buried 1 foot in the ground. But today I went out to check on the birds. And I found a predator attack. My grey female and one of my doves were dead with meat missing but still had head (so that excludes fisher and mink correct?) the predator also left a big poop right in front of my grey females body. It looks as though the predator Dug it's way under. There is a dug hole underneath the actual coop that leads to the aviary. It is about 7ft long. Any ideas on what did this and how to fix it)

 

[minihorse927]

Ok, I need some help guys... So as some of you know I recently built an all metal aviary with welded wire roof and sheet metal perimeter buried 1 foot in the ground. But today I went out to check on the birds. And I found a predator attack. My grey female and one of my doves were dead with meat missing but still had head (so that excludes fisher and mink correct?) the predator also left a big poop right in front of my grey females body. It looks as though the predator Dug it's way under. There is a dug hole underneath the actual coop that leads to the aviary. It is about 7ft long. Any ideas on what did this and how to fix it)

how big is the hole? Width? By saying 7 ft, you're meaning it made a 7ft tunnel to get in?

 

[18angovem]

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The hole is about 7ft long and idk maybe 1 foot wide. The coop is about 6in above ground but to still protect the birds we surrounded that 6in gap with welded wire fence and put bricks in front of the wire as well because baby ducks were getting through the wire but the predator moves the bricks and ripped the wire out of the ground and pried it up to get underneath. I believe it is a raccoon because they could move he bricks and pull up the wire. What do you think?

 

[minihorse927]

I'd bet coon. Possum could do it but they would have eaten the duck or pigeon from the rear end to the front and cleaned the inside out. What did they eat off of them?

 

[Amiga]

I have coated chain link, attached firmly all around the perimeter of the fence, across the bottom of the day pen. Something that size could dig under but cannot come up.

The "hole" in this system is that if a duck decided not to move while there was digging underneath them, then a raccoon could reach up through the chain link.

But if the ducks were in a shelter with a floor, inside the pen, that could not happen.

 

[18angovem]

I'd bet coon. Possum could do it but they would have eaten the duck or pigeon from the rear end to the front and cleaned the inside out. What did they eat off of them?

It ate all the meant and organs but left intestines and brain.

 

[minihorse927]

Raccoon

 

[buff goose guy]

dont exclude skunks though they have the same habits as the racoon as the from the rears thing.

and skunks actually burrow under ground so couldnt it be a skunk.

 

[duckmeister]

Put a n add on Craigslist to sell my last hatch of 4 babies because i've got a couple dozen calls out there in the pen and need to downsize. But when somebody answered the add and wanted to buy all my babies i told them they were aleady sold and then i went and deleted the Craigslist add. Tell me, am i becoming a duck hoarder? I'm thinking maybe if i wait until they feather out all the way, maybe i'll have a better idea of their quality and maybe i would want to keep them rather than cull them. It's not easy to part with call duck babies! :○

 

[buff goose guy]

So little bam bam is a girl and a snowy not white like I thought
Pebbles is a boy and probably The smallest call duck I've had yet