Chickens under attack!!

[llombardo]

I'm sure he is out there still. I watched him climb on the coop and small run trying to get in. I have it all done in hardware cloth so he was out of luck.View attachment 1555446 [

Hardware cloth or chicken wire?

 

[wildwestcoast]

Hardware cloth or chicken wire?

Hardware cloth thankfully. Its hard to see in the pic I posted because the larger yard I let them roam in is surrounded in chicken wire

 

[wildwestcoast]

This better shows the construction of the small run which is under the coop. The floor is plywood lined underneath in hardware cloth as well

 

[wildwestcoast]

Something raw and bloody and fresh. To bad you have to wait so long, he may be out there now. Make sure to let us know how this turns out. I wish you good luck with your traping!

Relocation is illegal many places, and often fails too. Your weasel could likely make it home from far away, and does love chicken, so it will look for other flocks on it's path back home too.
Mary

I have been advised by some local chicken keepers that its best to kill them rather than relocate because they can carry rabies

 

[The Phantom]

22 rifle.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Mink box

 

[cmom]

I do not relocate except to permanently relocate. I live rural and have had people drop off their relocations here. I live on a dead end road.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Drowning is not quick. It's several minutes of agonizing pain as lungs fill with water, of the animal panicking and hurting itself trying to claw out of the trap. Longer if the animal manages to hold its breath, which mink can. They spend however much time that earns them panicking and trying to escape. It's slow, it's painful, it's terrifying. It's an unacceptable way to kill something, no matter what that something is.
Again, weasels are not evil. They are animals, they are incapable of malice. They follow their instincts, and their instincts drive them to sharpen their hunting skills in times of plenty to prepare for times of want. They aren't seeking out your friends to slowly kill them. It isn't their fault and you shouldn't treat them like it's their fault.
If you decide that the best way to deal with a pest is to kill it, do it humanely, no matter what that animal is and what it's done.

 

[Evelyn's Mom]

Oh NOOOO!!!! That's one of my worst fears, too!! I agree with trapping and relocating, however, be sure to find out the laws where you live so you can't get in trouble, whatever and wherever you are trapping, and also, luckily in the fall, most babies born this spring and summer and nearly adults and are on their own or soon to be. The worst is when you trap an animal only to find it's entire family is left behind, then you have to deal with that.
And even though they are chicken predators, there are laws, trapping seasons, etc, so just cover your hiney Good luck!!

 

[wildwestcoast]

I do not relocate except to permanently relocate. I live rural and have had people drop off their relocations here. I live on a dead end road.

Yikes! That's terrible! I live on the edge of unpopulated wilderness so it's easier here. But I think it's illegal to relocate from what I've looked into.