GotCha! Weasel in the hen house! WEASEL QUESTION? & **PIC**

[Attack Chicken]

What ya going to do to him? Personally I would end its life because if you transport them they WILL and DO come back.

 

[Capt. Crusoe]

I used suet for woodpeckers – a peace cut 1 ½” x 1 ½” x 1". I bought the suet at the local feed store. I think what sealed the deal was a smaller trap. - He/she (not sure which) was able to jump over the trigger of the larger traps I use for coon and fox. I did tie the suet to the back of the trap (two door trap) and only opened one door. Good Luck and once you catch the little bugger - don’t get your fingers too close- they are feisty! My larger traps I bait with sardines or cat food but have caught many cats - not sure whom they all belong too but wish they would keep them home. I have also caught several raccoon and wild mink. In the largest single door trap I caught 3 fox. I have never trapped a coyote but the fellow down the road harvest several each year. I am not fond of killing predators but I made the mistake of moving into their feeding grounds and enticed them by putting chicken and turkey on their plate. I try to deter instead of kill so I have strung allot of electric fence. The coop, pen and run are complete and pulsing right now, in the spring, I will start the perimeter of the field around the barn.

 

[Cetawin]

Unless you want to drive him a 100 or so miles and risk getting stopped, dispatch it. It will come back. Not a critter you want to have wandering around because eventually it will find a way to the chickens.

 

[ozark hen]

Capt. Crusoe :

Thanks for the "link". Good information and glad to know they are solitary animal. As for "Fight per Ounce" They seem like a real contender and I am glad he found the trap verses my feathered friends. Another trap is back in place until I figure out to do with this one. YIKES! Now I’ve got weasels! I just eliminated 3 wild mink not too long back! I guess there is no telling what all may creep and crawl our prairie and woods.

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Thanks again.

ONly problem with "rehoming" them is that they become someone else's nightmare. Good luck.​

 

[Capt. Crusoe]

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ONly problem with "rehoming" them is that they become someone else's nightmare. Good luck.

Thanks for all the suggestions - but wanted you to know the predator along with the one caught last night #2 weasel have been terminated - they will no longer stalk my birds or anyone else’s.

 

[Capt. Crusoe]

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Thanks for all the suggestions - but wanted you to know the predator along with the one caught last night #2 weasel have been terminated - they will no longer stalk my birds or anyone else’s.

 

[Capt. Crusoe]

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Thanks for all the suggestions - but wanted you to know the predator along with the one caught last night #2 weasel have been terminated - they will no longer stalk my birds or anyone else’s.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

I do hope you plan on dispatching this little guy. He is cute up until he eats your favorite hen. The local animal shelter will only destroy it. I have never really seen one of these critters. Plenty of possum, coons and armidillos though. I have a ground hog under the chicken barn and I have caught most of his family. This one is a young one, but he does not bother the chickens.

 

[Capt. Crusoe]

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They both (caught two) have been terminated! Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

I would keep that trap out for a while as it sounds to me like ya might have a family there, mom and kids maybe. Good luck.