Fisher showed up on our game camera...kinda worried about the chickens now.

[ElCerritoPlace]

So we had a fox and raccoon problem this summer. Put a automatic door closer/opener on the coop to keep the coons out. Now a fisher has shown up on the game camera in the woods behind our house. Will the go after chickens during the day or only night time? Ofcourse I say that knowing there are exceptions. The fox only came mid day to catch a chicken, but that was not a healthy animal (we caught it). The fisher looks healthy from the photos. I know mustelids are very aggressive hunters, but just don't know how determined they are to go after chickens and when.

Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks

 

[N F C]

Here's a link with Fisher information on it and their method of preying on chickens. Safeguard your girls with a strong coop, cover their run and as the article states, make sure all feed is secure. I'm not familiar with them, but they sound tricky to deal with.

http://www.raising-chickens.org/chicken-predators.html

Here's more info from the BYC page about chicken predators:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...how-to-protect-your-chickens-from-fisher-cats

 

[thomasboyle]

Can you post the pics?

 

[ElCerritoPlace]

Can you post the pics?

Here's the best pic. But I know what a fisher looks like. My dad traps and I'm a biologist. It showed up 2 nights in a row on the game camera. Got at least a dozen pictures of it, along with two rolly polly raccoons, a coyote and a red fox. All during the full moon or close to it. Will probably set traps for a raccoon or two, but the fisher we needed to buy a tag before August.

 

[keesmom]

I have never had a fisher attach during the day. How secure is your coop? Do you have windows and are they protected by hardware cloth?

 

[N F C]

Can you post the pics?

If you click on the links in my post above, you can see pictures of them in addition to what the OP posted.

 

[ElCerritoPlace]

I have never had a fisher attach during the day. How secure is your coop? Do you have windows and are they protected by hardware cloth?

I do have windows and vents. The vents only have chicken wire, but I'm cutting hardware cloth to go over them instead. The windows have 1x2 wire from the garden over them. I do worry about the roof being a polycarbonate roof, and it ripping thru the roof.