Look what I found in my coop tonight!!!!

[riverpilot69]

Found one of those in my coop a few nights ago. Now I have a Silver Laced with no tail feathers, but at least she is alive. Which is more than I can say for the opossum. Ordered a automatic door the next day to close up shop for me if I don't make it home before nightfall.

 

[kari_dawn]

oh, I SO want one of those! Im just worried about what would happen if my silly girls got locked out!

 

[the4heathernsmom]

wow!

 

[mohillbilly]

piece of advice....DO NOT pickup a live opossum by its tail. It may not bite you but then I had a friend that picked one up by its tail and almost lost his hand for doing it.

 

[kari_dawn]

...if that was directed at me, I certainly was NOT advising anyone to do as I do.

I have been working with wildlife and exotics for many years, and have been trained to do so safely.

lol

 

[mohillbilly]

...if that was directed at me, I certainly was NOT advising anyone to do as I do.

I have been working with wildlife and exotics for many years, and have been trained to do so safely.

lol

no it wasn't directed at anyone other than someone that knows nothing about wildlife..I would not want anyone to get hurt by messing with wildlife if I can help in someway to keep them from it.

 

[lesgo54]

chootum, chootum. i shoot all oppossums and coons i trap

 

[lesgo54]

did u figure out how it got into the coop

 

[wood&feathers]

An earlier response contained a potentially dangerous tidbit of misinformation. Opossums CAN get rabies. Any mammal can get/carry rabies. It is just that some species' behavior makes them more prone to infection - raccoons, skunks, etc. Possums aren't the usual suspects and that one looks fat and healthy.

 

[aprophet]

An earlier response contained a potentially dangerous tidbit of misinformation. Opossums CAN get rabies. Any mammal can get/carry rabies. It is just that some species' behavior makes them more prone to infection - raccoons, skunks, etc. Possums aren't the usual suspects and that one looks fat and healthy.

CDC has a really hard time finding possums with rabies the body temp is lower then it takes for the virus to incubate, around here bats and skunk are tied for the number 1 vector