- Jun 30, 2007
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Hi! I'm new to the message board so nice to meet everyone. I need some help with predator problems. We had 8 "mohawk chickens" as the family calls them in a converted dog kennel. We thought they were safe as we had covered the top with wire and the rest was chain link but we were wrong. My mother went outside a couple of days ago and discovered a body with its stump of a neck stuck out through one of the links (our best rooster too). The head and neck were gone and the other chickens were fine but it was quite a gruesome and worrying sight. We covered the sides of the pen with even more wire and that night we shuffled all the chickens inside of a kennel and put them inside for the night and set a live trap. We caught nothing at all. So we took them in for a couple more days and continued setting the live trap and after still not catching anything decided it was safe and let them stay out in their pen for the night. Everything was quiet for a couple of days and then yesterday I came outside and my best hen had disappeared also. I live in Minnesota and all I could think of would be either skunk, raccoon, or maybe a weasel but I'm a first time chicken raiser so I have no clue what it could possibly be. If anyone could give me some help or suggest what it might be or how to trap it that would be great!
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