Its a mystery on how this weasel got into my run- or when. It killed one hen during the afternoon yesterday. I
locked the flock in the coop and they are safe at least. The ermine is under the coop and cannot escape because of the predator apron. Coop and run are attached. I set rat traps, sticky traps and a live trap in the run, baited them but it evades the traps. I ambushed it this afternoon and am pretty sure I hit it with a pellet gun but it went back under the coop and hasn’t come out. I have a live game cam in the run;
If I don’t see it by morning will it be relatively safe to let the flock back into the run?
Now the mystery..I have a 2 ft horizontal predator apron to the coop and run, and the ground is frozen so its unlikely it dug under.
Is it possible it scaled the side of run then somehow got onto the metal roof despite a 10 inch overhang? The metal roof ridges are not filled but I didn’t think anything could/would get up there and not slide off. The coop itself is a fiberglass building 7.5 ft tall, so no footholds for climbing to get into that roof. I’m perplexed- Obviously there’s a breach somewhere. The ermine can’t find a way out so that leads me to think it accessed via the roof. The pitch is 6-12.
Is that possible?
locked the flock in the coop and they are safe at least. The ermine is under the coop and cannot escape because of the predator apron. Coop and run are attached. I set rat traps, sticky traps and a live trap in the run, baited them but it evades the traps. I ambushed it this afternoon and am pretty sure I hit it with a pellet gun but it went back under the coop and hasn’t come out. I have a live game cam in the run;
If I don’t see it by morning will it be relatively safe to let the flock back into the run?
Now the mystery..I have a 2 ft horizontal predator apron to the coop and run, and the ground is frozen so its unlikely it dug under.
Is it possible it scaled the side of run then somehow got onto the metal roof despite a 10 inch overhang? The metal roof ridges are not filled but I didn’t think anything could/would get up there and not slide off. The coop itself is a fiberglass building 7.5 ft tall, so no footholds for climbing to get into that roof. I’m perplexed- Obviously there’s a breach somewhere. The ermine can’t find a way out so that leads me to think it accessed via the roof. The pitch is 6-12.
Is that possible?
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