Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[room onthebroom]

Anyone living in the US probably has weasels and mink in their vicinity. They just haven't located your flock yet. Hey, a country boy does what has to be done.

Are you calling me a liar or just saying that I'm stupid... Hahaha! Just kidding.

Seriously tho, I've lived in So Cal my whole life & we don't have them. We've got enough raccoons, hawks & coyotes to make up for the lack of weasels.

 

[sourland]

Are you calling me a liar or just saying that I'm stupid... Hahaha! Just kidding.

Seriously tho, I've lived in So Cal my whole life & we don't have them. We've got enough raccoons, hawks & coyotes to make up for the lack of weasels.

Neither, and I reiterate - you just haven't seen them yet.

 

[sourland]

Oops, you may not have them. A search indicates they are found in Alaska, Canada, and the Continental US except for the desert Southwest. Do you qualify as desert Southwest?

 

[Alaskan]

I wish there were some way I could just keep all vampire hotdogs away from my coops.... Without spending bookoo bucks to make hardware cloth boxes.....

Can I just pee all over? Does that keep them away?

First attack in almost 8 years of chicken keeping up in Alaska... ....

 

[sourland]

Most predators become habituated to human scents - in my experience. I used to snare fox every winter. As I made my daily rounds there was a spot that I routinely urinated - marking my territory like a good male. One day after a fresh snow I saw where a male fox had urinated on the same spot.

Maybe I should have my Testosterone level checked?

 

[room onthebroom]

Oops, you may not have them. A search indicates they are found in Alaska, Canada, and the Continental US except for the desert Southwest. Do you qualify as desert Southwest?

Yep. That's exactly where I am... About an hour from the Mexican border. The closest we get to weasels are pet ferrets (I don't have any in my menagerie, but I know people who do.) We've got wild raccoons, hawks, owls, coyotes, snakes, opossum, rats, mice & skunks. No wolves, foxes, or weasels... At least none that I've seen or heard of in the last 4-1/2 decades.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
got news for you we have em.... big ones too. just under the size of a ferret. The one I saw was red and had a creamy under belly cam up out of a gopher hole looked around then leaped out and did a swan dive back into the same hole... Jes changin direction...

http://www.desertusa.com/animals/long-tailed-weasel.html

""Its diet includes, according to The Mammals of Texas, "ground squirrels, pocket gophers, wood rats, cotton rats, small cottontails, and so forth; insects make up a small percentage of the total diet. Birds are rarely taken when other foods are available."



deb

 

[Alaskan]

Vampire beast that!


And sour,

 

[room onthebroom]

got news for you we have em.... big ones too. just under the size of a ferret. The one I saw was red and had a creamy under belly cam up out of a gopher hole looked around then leaped out and did a swan dive back into the same hole... Jes changin direction...

http://www.desertusa.com/animals/long-tailed-weasel.html

""Its diet includes, according to The Mammals of Texas, "ground squirrels, pocket gophers, wood rats, cotton rats, small cottontails, and so forth; insects make up a small percentage of the total diet. Birds are rarely taken when other foods are available."



deb

hahahaha!

 

[room onthebroom]

Vampire beast that!

And sour,

Deb, You're giving Alaskan vampire hotdog PTSD