The Moonshiner's Leghorns

Agreed, unless you have a small dog or cat that might decide to go into the trap to get the moon pie. Your avatar shows a small dog.
Ah I see. The dog in the picture is in doggy heaven. The trap will go out at night and the dog I do have isn’t allowed out at night because she is too stupid to be left alone. If anything I might catch a stray cat but I doubt it. I do have some wet cat food that I don’t want to use that as bait precisely because I might catch a cat. I am hoping the moon pie will specifically attract the raccoon.
 
Maybe the Sussex is using the chick as replacement bait :lau
That is possible, but the varmint is large and probably wants a large meal. lol It consumed over 50% of the roosters it killed that were on tie cords. Those are the only carcasses we have found, likely because it couldnt get the birds free from the tie cords to take them with it. The losses haven’t hurt us necessarily, numbers wise, as they were extras we had but didn’t want to butcher. My husband didn’t need them but didn’t want to get rid of them, that kind of thing. Anything important we keep penned up.

The varmint didn’t come back around last night. The chick was with its papa Sussex this morning and all appeared alive and well. That is generally how it goes. You lose birds you don’t necessarily want to lose and then you put out birds as bait you don’t mind to lose and nothing touches them. Happens every single time. We have a lot of birds and it didn’t hurt us at all to lose the ones we have lost because honestly we have too many anyway. But its just the principle of it. I don’t like losing birds to varmints. We rarely ever lose any so close to home so it is odd our dogs aren’t noticing or alarming us when birds are being taken. Whatever it is is taking birds swiftly and quietly without the dogs noticing. Whatever it is is smart and is taking birds on the lower end of the property away from the dogs. And taking birds that wander off the property also, which tends to happen every year and is no big deal. If I couldn’t afford to lose them I would keep them penned. It’s just natural selection.

Sorry to ramble, I’ve had a lot of caffeine this morning. 🥱🫩
 
Whatever it is is taking birds swiftly and quietly without the dogs noticing.
My mom lost half her flock to a mountain lion while two very large German Shepherds cowered under the porch. You’re not far from me-do you think it could be a bobcat? I have heard there are no mountain lions where I am but I think that’s nonsense.
 
My mom lost half her flock to a mountain lion while two very large German Shepherds cowered under the porch. You’re not far from me-do you think it could be a bobcat? I have heard there are no mountain lions where I am but I think that’s nonsense.
We have never seen a mountain lion or bobcat on any of the cameras. We have cameras everywhere. We have only seen a big white dog that belongs to a guy up the road and a couple possums and coons, which my husband has trapped and killed a ton of next to the creek. He shot a possum the past two nights staking out so that could have been the culprits. He worries it is a fox or the dog though, but we havent caught any pics of a fox or bobcats on any of the game cams.
 

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