It's a fisher cat - what do I do. Just lost two more hens.

[chickiepoo]

Is a fishercat like a badger (aka wolverine)? The picture looks like one. If it is, they are very cunning. I remember reading a novel about a trapper going up against a badger. I was amazed. Fiction, but if even part of it was based on fact...that badger was one formidable adversary!

 

[lengel]

DH killed the one that was barely alive and it made a noise that was very similar to what I thought was the fisher cat. It was a necessary act. She was pretty messed up. So, it may not be a fisher cat but whatever it was can move - and fast. I was out there in a shot since I've been sitting near the window listening with the fans off.

We baited the two traps with the dead hens and caught three of the remaining black sex links. I'll tell you what though. My RIRs were hiding out in their coop, quiet as mice. I swear they were playing dead. Same for the guinea hen and her Aracauna companion and the turkeys.

I am very deeply unhappy right now. They were pretty birds, sweet and smart and in less than two days, I may only have three of them left.

 

[nccountrygirl]

I'm so sorry for your loss, I hope you get whatever it is that killed your babies.

 

[Cetawin]

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ummm a badger and a wolverine are alike only in that they are both in the Mustelidae or weasel family. Not in size appearance or behavior. The badger is a small black/gray/silver with black bands that is vicious. The wolverine is much larger, skittish of humans and rearely seen, brown and tan, and not the blood thirsty critter they name and reputation portray...the badger is. The Cherokee used to use badger as the manner in which the death penalty was carried out.

The Badger:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger

The Wolverine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine

If you would like to see pics of real ones, let me know as I have a cased hide of each.

as to that fisher cat....eeeeewww good luck. I would shoot it the second I saw it in the trap.