Help!! I ned to try to find out what kind of predator got my bird!!!!

[bobbi-j]

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Good for you! I just struggle when I read, "I caught a (fill in the blank) and don't know what to do with it. I don't want to kill the poor thing!" We are a hunting family, too, so there's no question as to what we'd do with anything we were to catch in a trap. One year when we were deer hunting, we got 3 coyotes and 2 coons, and 3 deer. More varmints than deer! Waiting to hear what you catch!

 

[PAchickenlover]

Thanks! I will post as soon as I find something in one of them. At this point though, since the missing hen came back, we are on a curiosity search right now trying to see what lives or passes through our woods. We will not let anything that we catch go back in to our woods alive. I don't want to invite a "family" to settle in, so to speak.
We got 5 deer last year. Our oldest son got his first Buck a 6 pointer.

Mollie

 

[bobbi-j]

Good for your son! I'll bet he was excited.

 

[PAchickenlover]

Thanks!!! He was DANCING all the way up to the deer and I mean DANCING whooping and a hollering too.... And with good reason!

 

[PAchickenlover]

Hey its been dark here for about an hour think I should go check the trap? Or should I wait a little longer?

 

[nickie]

I would wait to check it. Coyotes start calling around here about now, so if they're out you don't want to scare them off and coins too, but I don't know when their active time is other than night. We usually see them late.

 

[PAchickenlover]

Well my lantern went out anyways and I dont have another right now. I'll have to wait till morning or till my hubby comes home with his lantern.

 

[bobbi-j]

I think waiting till morning is a good idea. If you go wandering around now, you could spook anything that might be thinking about going into your trap.

 

[pinknose]

Hi,
I hope this is not rude or anything, but I have a question of my own. One of my hens didn't return last night and I found two large piles of feathers in small concentrated areas and a pile of blood. we don't have foxes and I know we don't have racoons, so the only thing that could have gotten her is a coyote or a eagle/bird. From what I found, who is the most likely culprit?

 

[PAchickenlover]

What about possum? Also how do you know you do not have any of the other predators in your area?