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Been there and been doing that... dead chickens, that is. The very one's it kills the night before. It takes the whole bird when it's bantams but only the crop of the standards, then I put the rest of the bird in the trap and it gets it out without setting off the trap!!!
I caught oppossums without even baitting... they are dumb animals and walk right in. Caught a fox with a carcass... but this raccoon(s) is just annoying me!! I'm about to sit out all night and hunt it. Maybe I'll borrow some coon dogs, tree the thing, and shoot it.... and you know I'm mad if I say that. I lose a chicken a day. I need some replacement birds to breed somethings but I'm not going to even try to search until I get this stopped... i would hate to get someone's bird and then it get eatten. I put a weight on the trap day after last so it finally wasn't somewhere totally different, but it took the dead roo out and flipped the pan (trigger) up, not down!!! So it got away again!!! It tries to dig under and around the trap from the outside because there is always holes everywhere it flips the trap. I'm hopeful tonight.... weight on top, and this time cat food on the pan. I'll get the little..........
Ok now you need to keep your critters where you are rather than sharing with me. I have lost a chicken a day for 4 days now to fox or coyotes. Those sh**heads will wait til you walk in the house to pee or eat lunch take your chickens. I lost one of my best breeder chickens
the SO is so ticked this happened yesterday, came in to pee the darn thing made off with another brahma. No clear field of fire to far away for 410 to be effective he was jumping up & down ticked off. So we are going to have to find a different method . Think I got one but won't post here it don't include poison as that to me isn't humane. I know they will keep coming back for chicken buffet , but this is food off my table taking my breeders & egg layers.
I know! I had the same problem in the summer... You can feel them watching you... or maybe I'm paranoid. LOL!
