Dead chickens

[Joe1962]

They can very easily. You might want to replace it with hardwire cloth.

I will this week.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

I closed off the entrance to the run and re enforced the whole bottom of the coop with 1/2 inch plywood. I hope that keeps it out.

Me, too! Good luck!
Do you have a live trap and/or field camera?. Use the carcasses of your birds as bait.....

 

[Joe1962]

Me, too! Good luck!
Do you have a live trap and/or field camera?. Use the carcasses of your birds as bait.....

Already done. Put the dead ones in a live trap and set it by the coop.

 

[MandaH]

I think you have received some great advice to try to prevent future problems. I just wanted to say i am sorry that you lost some of your birds. I am also thinking it was probably a small furry weasel/mink. My neighbor had one coming a whole that was very small. It (a mink) just killed them and left them there except for a few he tried hiding under a board. A male mink will leave a musty smell that sometimes you can smell even after they are gone

 

[Joe1962]

I set a trap last night with the only live trap I had. It came back and worked the dead chicken bodies over. Both decapitated this morning. I think the screen on that trap is too big. Have a smaller live trap and 2 rat traps set for tonight.

 

[Joe1962]

I set a trap last night with the only live trap I had. It came back and worked the dead chicken bodies over. Both decapitated this morning. I think the screen on that trap is too big. Have a smaller live trap and 2 rat traps set for tonight.

Oh also, It did not get back into the coop. All the girls looked fine this morning.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Oh also, It did not get back into the coop. All the girls looked fine this morning.

That’s a relief.

 

[The Lazy L]

I think he was trying to get away. He was in a screened off area of the coop I put in for setting hens. There was a hen in there also that was alive. Can a weasel/mink get through chicken wire?

Chicken wire is ONLY good for keeping chickens in. Chicken wire will NOT keep predators out.

 

[Joe1962]

Still have not caught the Weasel. I am down 4 mice though. Can't believe they like Tuna and Chicken.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Still have not caught the Weasel. I am down 4 mice though. Can't believe they like Tuna and Chicken.

Mice eat anything.