Help! A Nightly Visitor......Skunk......

[bluey]

I have a zero tolerance policy with raccoons, possums, skunks and other rodents.

This is why my game cam lately shows nothing but deer and wild turkeys!

Of course the cats take care of the smaller pests. I take care of the bigger pests. I've yet to lose a chicken in 1 yr, 9 mos of free ranging...

I'm sure it will happen eventually, but it won't be due to lack of vigilance...

 

[antiquebuff]

Thanks for all the info and advice. I was up three times last to check the chickens and it was the skunk each time. Last week it was a bob cat so I can't take a chance on not checking. I will have to come up with something to do....I just can't stand the smell and I am so scared of getting sprayed!

 

[antiquebuff]

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Oh, Now that is cute. I could make one of those........................

 

[Poohbear]

I was having a problem with skunks one year. I used a "Havahart" live catch trap, baited with sardines in oil inside the trap. Then tied a 50 foot rope onto the trap with easy access to the open field. Skunk would get in trap, I would pull it with the end of the rope into the open field and ten shoot it while it was in the cage. Catch and release is not an option in most cases to me because this is just another way to cause someone else to have MY problem to deal with. A skunk that is not afraid of humans is a disease (Rabies) threat as well as a danger to your dogs, cats, cattle, horses AND your fowl. Turn him loose within fifteen miles of another home and he will be THEIR problem. Like dumping trash in a neighbors backyard in the middle of the night. No good.

 

[Miltonchix]

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DO WHAT?!!
I'm absolutely no fan of skunks and will kill them in a heartbeat. But can you imagine DROWNING in acetone?

Bullet through the skull or as animal control did when I was a kid, poisoned egg. The right poison will drop it before it finishes the egg.

 

[Alley]

This is what I do... I set my trap and put a tarp over the trap. Use an old tarp that you don't care if it gets sprayed. When the skunk get's trapped and if it sprays, it will only spray the tarp, not you. We pick the tarp, trap and all up and put it in the back of our truck. We live in a rural area so we relocate them to an isolated area. We've never been sprayed using this method.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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As does the acetone. They don't drown in it. They are down and out within a second.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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In most states relocation is illegal, for the reasons that were previously mentioned.

 

[antiquebuff]

I think I have someone to come and trap it and do "whatever" he does with him!
Thanks for all the input. I will let you all know what happens!

 

[scogind]

12 ga. No. 6 shot. No fuss, no muss.