Post Your Game Cam Pics Here!!!

[the outdoorsman44]

Can you tell what this is? I can say 100% for sure me and the family and our dogs were accounted for when this pic was taken, two were in their pens, one was in the house. The neighbor walks his dogs on a leash because we have chickens and he has bees. If he does not want me to spray every bee I see with bug spray, he keeps his dogs on a leash so they don't eat my chickens. So I know this is not a dog. Without leading anyone in this direction, game and fish took a print from a nearby pond and it turned out to be a black bear. All of our chickens are accounted for and I count them every day about 1\2 free range, but they stay away from the part of the property that the game cam is. So far we have not had any problems with predators, our chickens have been raised around our dogs so they stay close to their pen area, and the dogs make enough noise when something unwelcome comes into the yard. But since we did get this pic right on the heels of the bear report it got me thinking. I just can't say what this is since it is so blurry. It looks like something got close to check out the funny box on the tree. Any ideas?

have i already said that it looks like someone sticking their mouth by the camera?

 

[ll]

The nose of a groundhog? -shrugs-

 

[ChicksinPR]

are game cameras able to catch pictures of mice well? I think I have a mouse living under or around my brooder box and I am afraid it will get my babies sick.... I set the camera up and it hasn't gotten a picture of it. I put out glue traps and nothing... just want to be sure if the camera is good for that. I have a Bushnell 2012 model. It is the one with the black led lights .

just thought I would ask you guys who have the cameras and use them often. I am grateful for what ever information you could share.

 

[Phyrst]

are game cameras able to catch pictures of mice well? I think I have a mouse living under or around my brooder box and I am afraid it will get my babies sick.... I set the camera up and it hasn't gotten a picture of it. I put out glue traps and nothing... just want to be sure if the camera is good for that. I have a Bushnell 2012 model. It is the one with the black led lights .

just thought I would ask you guys who have the cameras and use them often. I am grateful for what ever information you could share.

Hi ChicksinPR! Are all your chickens small and in brooder? Don't you have any chickens that are big enough to eat mice? My LF would chase them down then fight over them! As far as game cams picking up small rodents, do you have a "high" or sensitive setting for your cam? I can see small birds, chipmunks etc. on mine but never have seen mice (since I think they get eaten!). Check your settings, see if you can have 2 or 3 photos taken if triggered or move the cam closer. Snap traps work pretty good here for catching and killing vermin. Bait it with chunky peanut-butter. My DH takes a peanut and wedges it under the bait plate so the mouse has to work to get it- and it snaps closed; the end of that mouse! Hope this helps.

 

[ChicksinPR]

Hi ChicksinPR! Are all your chickens small and in brooder? Don't you have any chickens that are big enough to eat mice? My LF would chase them down then fight over them! As far as game cams picking up small rodents, do you have a "high" or sensitive setting for your cam? I can see small birds, chipmunks etc. on mine but never have seen mice (since I think they get eaten!). Check your settings, see if you can have 2 or 3 photos taken if triggered or move the cam closer. Snap traps work pretty good here for catching and killing vermin. Bait it with chunky peanut-butter. My DH takes a peanut and wedges it under the bait plate so the mouse has to work to get it- and it snaps closed; the end of that mouse! Hope this helps.

they must be eating them then...because I know there was one and I can't seem to find any. My chickens free range all day and only go in the coop to sleep. Only the babies are in there all day and in a separate side pen. I might be putting a rooster in time out anyway...so he can trap my mouse...if he hadn't already ate it. I do have a sensitive setting. I need to go check my cap to see if it saw anything last night. Thanks for the info.

 

[harveyhorses]

He didn't like the electric fence around the girls run, so he makes do with dropped sunflower seeds, if the raccoons leave any.

 

[RedIII]

coolcanoechich, you get that fox yet?

 

[outdoorsii]

He didn't like the electric fence around the girls run, so he makes do with dropped sunflower seeds, if the raccoons leave any.

LOL awww poor lil skunky....we don't have any around here that I've seen

 

[harveyhorses]

I found these balloons floating across my yard and thought, hey that should keep the raccoons away from the birdfeeder! The girls are safe in their coop and run, but dang these guys look healthy, and enjoying the party!

 

[Sunny Dawn]

Look what we caught last night...about 50 ft from the chicken pen or less actually, she or any other coon around here so far has never tried to get in our chicken coop which we leave the door open from the coop to the run, & just close the run door but they could if they wanted to really easily...I guess we have so many other things on our property to keep em busy eating at night that they haven't gotten that desperate or curious, we were for sure we had 2 seperate older coons one of which was her & then we have the big momma w/her 4 1/2 grown babies.

I would not do that if at all possible. We used to close up the pen and let the coop door open and then..... One morning we went out to the coop and found 3 dead chickens 2 of them with their heads chewed off and missing and another one completely shreaded. Our fence is 8 feet tall and we also have most of the top covered with fencing as well. In the next few weeks we caught several possums, raccoon and a skunk in the live trap. We now take the time to close them up tight at dusk and then let them out first thing in the morning usually before we even had our tea. The effor is worth not seeing my precious helpless hens mutilated.