Help Fast Please Something Is Killing Them All

[lovemychicks2much]

Ok i will do that tomorrow when i get off of work it might be hard to tell though becasue we are suppose to get rain tomorrow and i have cats outside but i have the 2 traps set tonight with sardines in both and one has a eggs in it that started to hatch but didnt make it I hope i catch something tonight and it not being one of my cats lol but I will do that tomorrow if its not raining and I will post if I catch anything in them tonight but how would a racoon get in the coop

 

[deerman]

Had a mink, get in my pen, placed the dead chicken in a live trap, caught the mink next night.

 

[buckeye chickens]

About five years ago we lost all 30 some of our 3 day old chicks in one night. They were all carried off from the cage they were in inside the chicken house, into one nesting box in a big heap. The next day thinking it was a rat or weasle we put out tons of traps, the next day we had a flying squirrel in a rat trap.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I'm betting it's a coon and her brood.

-Kim

 

[-_-Kelly-_-]

ahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just put food everywhere! protect your baby chicons!

 

[deerman]

Sound like a coon, and her kits to me also.

 

[MommaBean]

Ask everyone you know in your area if they know of any trappers, then call them and ask them for help. We had a mink get into our chickens last month. A weasle wouldn't be taking the bodies, they just like the kill.

 

[jqs birds]

Sounds like a coon to me too.
Try using a dead chicken for bait or even canned cat food.

 

[PeepsInc]

weasels are actually easy to trap. set up a board or tree limb up against the back of the coop. fix a small legget to the middle a few feet off the ground. Use a visual bait such as a piece of bunched up red cloth or red barries,Add chicken sent for better results. put the bait rite on the trap pan. Usually the trap snaps on there head. on ocassion you will catch a crow. Worked for me anyways.

 

[Davaroo]

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Or some sort of weasel. You migt also try chicken as bait.