Squirrel eating eggs

[Sadness Child]

This is pretty self explanatory, I have a squirrel who was getting into the chicken food, but then when I did supervised feeding he started taking the eggs.

I think that for tomorrow I will make it so that the door is closed enough for the squirrel to get in, but not the chickens. There will be a trap in the coop with a golf ball to fake the egg, and chicken food and peanuts.

If there is anything else that I can do to prevent both of these things please tell me. There are 3 squirrels we think.

 

[Sadness Child]

These are the three pictures that I have of the squirrel in the coop with a game camera

 

[Al Gerhart]

Nursing squirrels need protein, eggs, chicks, and chicken feed provide that. Get a treadle feeder that has a distant and narrow treadle, a counterweight, and a spring loaded door. Once the feed is no longer available or scattered on the ground that squirrel will have to do like nature intended and work its butt off foraging for wild food. Gonna be a lot cheaper than trying to fence one out.

 

[neo71665]

Get some rat traps, bait with peanut butter. Attach them with screws on the outside of the coop where it is getting in high enough nothing else can get to it.

It's how we protect our pears and peaches when they start getting in them. The things have gotten smart enough to run when they hear a door open or if we are sitting in the shop with guns.

 

[Sadness Child]

I ended up putting chili powder in the feed and along all the entrances to the coop, and we have not had any squirrels come by.