Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

Did it look like:

Possibly. I Like I said the sucker is so **** fast, you can't even focus on it. Hopefully it's in my trap this morning.

Sounds exactly like what the fisher did when it attacked and killed my 17 hens, all in one afternoon. It sprung all my traps the next day then thankfully seems to have left the area and never returned

I lost 15 the first day, 1 a day later from her injuries in September. And now it's back. 3 in one day, 2 the next and now my last barnevelder male. It's small, like chihuahua small.

 

[ronott1]

Possibly. I Like I said the sucker is so **** fast, you can't even focus on it. Hopefully it's in my trap this morning.

I lost 15 the first day, 1 a day later from her injuries in September. And now it's back. 3 in one day, 2 the next and now my last barnevelder male. It's small, like chihuahua small.

That is a long tailed weasel. They range down to mexico in California. Normally they go after wild things including rabbits. They kill exactly like you described but normally the "overkill" is in the Spring and Summer when they have a litter.

You can likely chalk this up as a lack of normal prey for the whatever it is. Small game, field mice and etc. have been decimated over the last 5 years because of the drought--which includes something in the hundreds of millions of trees.

Hopefully the drought is over now and things will get back to normal.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Bummer, didn't catch it yet.

 

[ronott1]

Bummer, didn't catch it yet.

Did it look like the bait(sorry about your boy) was disturbed? Those things can go through very little openings.

You would need the xtra small havahart trap: Walmart link to trap

 

[Happy Chooks]

Almost got the darn thing. A huge hole was dug around the end of the trap where the body is last night and the trap was triggered. We are 27* out this morning, so the body is keeping well. I reset the trap, and I'm going to wrap the end of the trap with the body today to force it through the other end.

 

[1muttsfan]

 

[mlm Mike]

Almost got the darn thing. A huge hole was dug around the end of the trap where the body is last night and the trap was triggered. We are 27* out this morning, so the body is keeping well. I reset the trap, and I'm going to wrap the end of the trap with the body today to force it through the other end.

Wish you would have gotten it, hopefully this time!

 

[robhuncor]

Almost got the darn thing. A huge hole was dug around the end of the trap where the body is last night and the trap was triggered. We are 27* out this morning, so the body is keeping well. I reset the trap, and I'm going to wrap the end of the trap with the body today to force it through the other end.

Stick the trap in a garbage can or similar container with only the open end showing. It also helps keep the critter from jumping on the top of the trap and springing it. Good luck.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Stick the trap in a garbage can or similar container with only the open end showing. It also helps keep the critter from jumping on the top of the trap and springing it. Good luck.

Great idea, but the trap wouldn't fit. So I wrapped it with a tarp.

Wish me luck!

 

[1muttsfan]