Em - 1 Possum - 0 **Updated w/pics**

[CritterHill]

Hey Mangled, just to be clear, I have no problem with guns, I have no problem with fatally dispatching animals harassing livestock.

We just have a different situation so we are approaching the problem from a different angle.

I was actually pretty impressed with your post. Wish I was as confident with firearms and able to do the same thing. No need to stop posting. This has been a really entertaining thread. I was totally cracking up when I read your post.

And I suspect the warning was more a general "Hey, just make sure you know what you are doing when you use those firearms." sort of thing.

Oh, and we are still waiting for pics!

 

[mangled]

Well, it was a seriously traumatizing thing, lol.

I got up and got some pics, not sure how good they will be. As soon as the kids settle down and I can take a few moments to find the cable for the digital, I'll get them on the computer. This is a new computer, so hopefully it will get along with my old digital. Vista tends to not like my other peripherals.

I also took an opportunity to take pictures of the flock.

I'll get pics up sometime today, or tonight. It may have to wait until the kids are in bed.

Em

 

[mountain man]

never had a possum bother the chickens just eat a few eggs i just pick em up by there tail and let them go outside roadkill possum goes in the oven with some sweet potato.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

UGH.....hope you weren't serious, MountainMan, about the roadkill (I guess......meat is meat, right).

I have, however, eaten opossum (and bear, and skunk, and snake, and.....you get the idea here), many years ago when married to my first husband. I thought it was just nasty!!!!!

 

[Fancy Feather Poultry]

And the promised pictures, where are they??

 

[lacyloo]

but we want them now

 

[mountain man]

i was serious its hard to get people to eat at my house

 

[lacyloo]

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I dint think you liked dead stuff?

 

[gritsar]

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That's exactly what it was. Perhaps it was in your telling of the tale that made it sound like you went off helter skelter. And I merely pointed out that my SO is a firearms instructor to show where my perspective comes from, nothing more.

 

[rooster-red]

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This has worked great for me for a couple of years now.
Possums are looking for easy meals and my coops and runs are well fortified so I've never had one even get into a run.

They come up on our porch and eat cat food, go away full and probably never think about my chickens. the cat food gives them a shiny coat, and they don't stink because they're not scavenging dead animals.

Don't get me wrong, if I caught one eating one of my chickens it would be dispatched with a quickness, (I don't lack for firearms

) but since I've taken the incentive to preditor proof my coops I don't have that problem.

From time to time I'll catch one bare handed just so they remember who is top preditor here and don't get too comfortable. I'm in no way sugguesting anyone else try to catch one this way, they do have razor sharp teeth and can move suprisingly fast when they want.

I do it just because I can.