Something in coop...what?

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Darn! But maybe that's a good thing. The critter now knows it can come and get a treat out of that metal box thing. Hopefully it will come back for more.

 

[deerman]

Skunk, or possum. Use eggs as bait, all the way in the back, break a few. Hint dont do like me, i set my trap near the door, bad idea caught a skunk. I now set them where I can shoot a skunk in the trap.

 

[IggiMom]

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OMIGOSH! I never thought of that.

Oh dear.

Catherine

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

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Sorry, but I just had to laugh at that one

 

[IggiMom]

There is a raccoon in the trap. I would have sworn that it wasn't a raccoon that got in the coop, because normally if you have a raccoon you have multiple dead chickens.

Not this time, just a bunch of terrified chickens and eggs all over the place.

But this was a very young raccoon, so perhaps it had not graduated to chickens yet.

Anyway, gone now.

We are going to continue setting out the trap. There was one on the porch also, which is particularly upsetting, because all my baby chicks are on the porch.

My husband had a bag of day old bread on the porch that he was tossing to the chickens and the coon (I presume it was anyway) had gotten into it and thrown bread and wrappers and so forth just everywhere.

Our Deerhound heard it in the night and was barking insanely inside and we let her out and she chased it off.

A raccoon can really hurt a dog, too, of course, so this worries me a little also.

A Deerhound is a very big dog, but a coon can be quite formidable and could probably injure her, but my guess is would not want to tangle. Whereas, the little Italian Greyhounds would be mincemeat for a coon. Just a snack.

Catherine

 

[deerman]

Still think you may have a skunk or possum. Coons do love eggs too. But most will kill some chicken.

 

[IggiMom]

Hmm, ok, could be both, right?

Catherine

 

[Debi214]

We used to have a possum that would stop by and see if it could sneak an egg or 2. I didn't mind until the raccoons moved in and decided a sneak attack would fit the bill to feed the family. I couldn't find my 2 hens one morning - nothing but blood, some feathers and a shell-less egg on the ground. It took an hour to find one of the hens, decapitated and the innards missing. I couldn't reach her body to bury her and when I went to check the next morning it was gone. Now she is too.

and her relatives/friends and her babies

 

[IggiMom]

Got another coon last night. My gosh. There much be a million of them around here.

We will keep putting out the trap until we catch something.

Catherine

 

[IggiMom]

Darn. I meant we will keep baiting the trap as long as we keep trapping something.

I read what I wrote before and saw that it did not make sense.

Catherine