Look at what I found today - Baby Opossums

[SueT]

About 30 years ago, my kids and I found a baby possum the size of a mouse, and we raised it to adulthood, and released it. It was fun for the kids. They named it Blossom. We didn't have chickens. Last night, we trapped a large possum that has been trying to get into the run. I decided that if I found a baby possum again, I'd throw it to the chickens, who love to eat mice.

 

[casportpony]

I would put equal effort in rehabbing a possum as I would in rehabbing a mouse, rat, coon, or black fly.

 

[Mckennas poultry]

About 30 years ago, my kids and I found a baby possum the size of a mouse, and we raised it to adulthood, and released it. It was fun for the kids. They named it Blossom. We didn't have chickens. Last night, we trapped a large possum that has been trying to get into the run. I decided that if I found a baby possum again, I'd throw it to the chickens, who love to eat mice.

I hope you tossed that rat down a river with crocodiles in it

 

[Kiki]

Anyway, mother was a mess inside.

• Intestinal worms
• Stomach worms
• No food in stomach
• Very little feces in intestines
• light coating of blood in stomach
• Bloated intestines, some with blood.

Are you going to post the pics here or in a Pm?

 

[Folly's place]

Not pretty tissue, for sure. I've never posted a mama possum, however.
Mary

 

[Kiki]

Is that infection in the boobs?

 

[Folly's place]

Probably, but again, I've never done a opossum!
Mary

 

[casportpony]

Could something like that cause sepsis? I ask because The rest of her looked pretty bad, and she smelled like roadkill shortly after death.

 

[casportpony]

Are you going to post the pics here or in a Pm?

I'll probably post them in the Opossum Necropsy thread.

 

[Kiki]

Kathy...were the worms alive/still moving inside her?