Feeling like a total idiot

[Tre3hugger]

I feel like a total idiot. After posting last night about successfulI outdoor brooding Iwoke up this morning to a massacre in my guinea keet brooder. Apparently 1\2 inch HWC is not small enough to keep out weasel hands. It's so small! There were two dead in the brooder with heads and limbs missing. Another was missing one leg and wing and was stuck in the HWC alive. I obviously put it out of its misery. It has been a whirlwind of emotion. The weasels must have stood on a plastic tote I have underneath storing wood chips. Then did their dirty work. I feel so guilty. BEWARE OF WEASELS. I got too comfy and they rocked my worlkd. I added plastic tiles to the bottom of the broode r and removed the tote. Hopefully that can keep them out. They killed my only pied keet and 2\3 lavender. Hard hard lesson.

 

[Yep I Talk To Chickens]

I feel like a total idiot. After posting last night about successfulI outdoor brooding Iwoke up this morning to a massacre in my guinea keet brooder. Apparently 1\2 inch HWC is not small enough to keep out weasel hands. It's so small! There were two dead in the brooder with heads and limbs missing. Another was missing one leg and wing and was stuck in the HWC alive. I obviously put it out of its misery. It has been a whirlwind of emotion. The weasels must have stood on a plastic tote I have underneath storing wood chips. Then did their dirty work. I feel so guilty. BEWARE OF WEASELS. I got too comfy and they rocked my worlkd. I added plastic tiles to the bottom of the broode r and removed the tote. Hopefully that can keep them out. They killed my only lied meet and 2\3 lavender. Hard hard lesson.

You have to catch it. It will continue to come back until all your birds are dead. Trust me. Bait a box trap or foot trap with chicken livers from the store. Make the trap look like a dark tunnel.

 

[Tre3hugger]

You have to catch it. It will continue to come back until all your birds are dead. Trust me. Bait a box trap or foot trap with chicken livers from the store. Make the trap look like a dark tunnel.

Dam I work til 6. Idk if I can get a trap tonite

 

[Yep I Talk To Chickens]

Hmmmm... Do you have another place to put the keets?

 

[Tre3hugger]

They just may be spending the night in the shed!

 

[Yep I Talk To Chickens]

Do you have a tractor supply near you?

 

[Yep I Talk To Chickens]

They just may be spending the night in the shed!

That sounds good. Make sure it's weasel proof. They can climb and dig.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Yes!!

Do you have a tractor supply near you?

 

[M Brennen]

So so sorry. Are you saying they attacked your brooder from underneath? I have 1/2 inch hardware cloth around my chicken run. I was hoping that would be good enough. I had rats dig underneath a small chicken coop that was sitting on pallets. It bit the feet of my chickens.

 

[Yep I Talk To Chickens]

Yes!!

They should sell box traps get a small ish one. Do you know how big it is? If not start lf with a small one then get a bigger one if that doesn't work after a while. They are tricky to catch. I will post a pic of the trap I used. I would set up a game camera as well. Also you can get prededer light its a red light. Prededers don't like it. Could it be a rat? Rats eat there feet and they will eat chicks/ keets heads of like weasels. Rats will come around not because your nasty but because of the chicken feed. I have had one before. If it is a weasel get this size trap. If its a rat get poison.