The Olive-Egger thread!

[Ihilani Coffee]

I am devastated... My OE was taken from me over the weekend by something that dug into my chick coop.... We are trying to trap whatever it was that did it, and I put concrete brings inside my coop so nothing else can commit another dinner. It's irritating I took so much effort into finding my OE to lose it a week later.

That's just awful. I once had a family of raccoons dig under like that, committing murder and mayhem in the henhouse. We put an electric wire 4" off the ground and 4" away from the henhouse and it never happened again.

 

[Sill]

I am devastated... My OE was taken from me over the weekend by something that dug into my chick coop.... We are trying to trap whatever it was that did it, and I put concrete brings inside my coop so nothing else can commit another dinner. It's irritating I took so much effort into finding my OE to lose it a week later.

So sorry you lost your OE. Hope you can catch the culprit.

That's just awful. I once had a family of raccoons dig under like that, committing murder and mayhem in the henhouse. We put an electric wire 4" off the ground and 4" away from the henhouse and it never happened again.

Great idea. I can just imagine the raccoons thinking they are getting a chicken dinner and getting a zap on the nose instead. Do you think they can hear the wire when it's live?

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

So sorry you lost your OE. Hope you can catch the culprit.

Great idea. I can just imagine the raccoons thinking they are getting a chicken dinner and getting a zap on the nose instead. Do you think they can hear the wire when it's live?

I think they can sense the electricity maybe. I had mine live for about 16 months and they never bothered us again. It hasn't been hot for years now.

 

[JFreeman]

Caught something in my trap today. What you think?

 

[Sill]

I think someone was playing an April Fool's trick on you.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Just because I can't stop taking chick pictures! lol

My! isn't she a prettily lil thing?

 

[Phoenixxx]

That's just awful.  I once had a family of raccoons dig under like that, committing murder and mayhem in the henhouse.  We put an electric wire 4" off the ground and 4" away from the henhouse and it never happened again.

Are you sure that was coons? That behaviour sounds exactly like what weasels did to my neighbour's flock. I had a coon problem my first chicken winter, but they would grab one, eat it, drop the carcass and leave, saving the rest of the birds for another night. Third time my husband busted them red-handed; he chased them out with a hockey stick, giving one of them a good smack on the butt, and they haven't been back since! Even with the awful winter we're having this year I was totally expecting them to return, but nope!

 

[chickenlver2013]

Caught something in my trap today. What you think?

What is that??

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Are you sure that was coons? That behaviour sounds exactly like what weasels did to my neighbour's flock. I had a coon problem my first chicken winter, but they would grab one, eat it, drop the carcass and leave, saving the rest of the birds for another night. Third time my husband busted them red-handed; he chased them out with a hockey stick, giving one of them a good smack on the butt, and they haven't been back since! Even with the awful winter we're having this year I was totally expecting them to return, but nope!

The size of the hole was consistent with raccoons. Too small for coyote, too big for skunk. They completely ate one hen, half-ate another, and killed a third in one sitting. It was awful.

 

[JFreeman]

What is that??

My black Polish.