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[Sally Sunshine]

Umm...well, yea, about them sticking around...they might not, since I got p.o.'d about them stealing the corn out of my antler trap...so I started shooting at them with my bb gun, and after about a week of doing that (with no luck, I might add...they are SO freakin' smart...every time I opened the door to shoot at them they took off), I decided on a different tactic that wasn't against the law (discovered shooting at crows is a no-no), which is covering the corn during the day with a board. I still have crows around...lots of them...but they don't bother the trap anymore.

LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Umm...well, yea, about them sticking around...they might not, since I got p.o.'d about them stealing the corn out of my antler trap...so I started shooting at them with my bb gun, and after about a week of doing that (with no luck, I might add...they are SO freakin' smart...every time I opened the door to shoot at them they took off), I decided on a different tactic that wasn't against the law (discovered shooting at crows is a no-no), which is covering the corn during the day with a board. I still have crows around...lots of them...but they don't bother the trap anymore.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...say-son-did-ya-see-that-hawk-after-those-hens

 

[NicInNC]

I was just wondering....with these cams...will they pick up something the size of a mouse or a smaller rat? I borrowed my neighbors and this is all that showed up in a span of 3 nights. I should have had it set up tonight being as I just found another chicken dead. I have GOT to find out what's killing them. I gave my neighbor back the camera Friday. I think I may go out and just buy my own tomorrow.

 

[Ashburnham]

Yes - they will generally be triggered by rats and mice.

 

[Suzierd]

I was just wondering....with these cams...will they pick up something the size of a mouse or a smaller rat? I borrowed my neighbors and this is all that showed up in a span of 3 nights. I should have had it set up tonight being as I just found another chicken dead. I have GOT to find out what's killing them. I gave my neighbor back the camera Friday. I think I may go out and just buy my own tomorrow.

What do the chickens look like? How is it getting in?

 

[NicInNC]

What do the chickens look like? How is it getting in?

2 of the chickens (my silkies) were decapitated. One of them wasn't touched anywhere else, but the other was slit open towards its vent. I never did find the heads. They were killed a few days apart. Then my Barred Rock was killed. It was slit open on the chest but had its head. Last night, my mille fleur was ripped to shreds. :*(

 

[Suzierd]

2 of the chickens (my silkies) were decapitated. One of them wasn't touched anywhere else, but the other was slit open towards its vent. I never did find the heads. They were killed a few days apart. Then my Barred Rock was killed. It was slit open on the chest but had its head. Last night, my mille fleur was ripped to shreds. :*(

Sounds like a Raccoon, they can squeeze threw a small hole in the run, chew through weak wire push some staples out, climb over if there's no top, you have to fix your set up mainly your coop right away he won't stop until you have no chickens left. Do you know how it's getting in?

 

[NicInNC]

Sounds like a Raccoon, they can squeeze threw a small hole in the run, chew through weak wire push some staples out, climb over if there's no top, you have to fix your set up mainly your coop right away he won't stop until you have no chickens left. Do you know how it's getting in?

I'm guessing whatever it is went under the front/side of the coop and came out into the run and then went into the coop that way. That's what it looks like. DH is going to bury fencing under the ground this week when he's off work. We had it in the ground a little bit but whatever it is, was just digging underground and going under the fencing.

 

[Suzierd]

I would try to make a door for your coop block it with a piece of wood and hammer some nails in half way and bend them over the piece of wood loose enough so you can twist the to the side and let them out in the morning until your husband gets the run fixed.
I use hardware cloth chicken wire rust to fast in the ground and some critters will chew through it.. What has worked well for me (we have opossums, coons, skunks) is taking a roll of hardware cloth and making a skirt around my run that L shapes on to the ground a good 18" the critters not able to dig in because he's standing in the wire and I don't have to do any digging. I put some heavy rocks or stakes in a few spots to help hold it down until the grass and weeds start growing thru it and then its good to go. Tent stakes work well too. I hope this helps poor peeps must be scared to death.

 

[AQHAchick22]

Not a game camera picture. I took this video this afternoon. This guy has been hanging out under our bird feeders about 30' from the back of our house.

Darn raccoons...so cute yet so mean...it's a love/hate relationship.