Trapping weasel help, please!*IT CAME BACK!**

[redhen]

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LOL..i agree...when i think back to how i looked..

....i was more scary then the weasel!....

I want to see a pic of that.

heehe...well...i'll see what i can do.....

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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I want to see a pic of that.

heehe...well...i'll see what i can do.....

 

[redhen]

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the thing is...my chicken got killed while they were penned....if they were free ranging those days...they could have gotten away from a weasel....and i dont feel comfortable not lettings my chickens have some freedom....they like/LOVE to play in my yard...they LOVE to dig up my flowers...

....they LOVE being able to be chickens!!!!...i cant take that away from them....i need to just kill the weasels...and i will kill them...not that i want to kill any creature...but...its going after my tame birds, my pets...its gonna die....

 

[redhen]

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heehe...well...i'll see what i can do.....

LOL..you goof!

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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LOL..you goof!

 

[#1California Chick]

Hang in there!!! You WILL catch this (these) varmit(s)!!!!!

 

[jvls1942]

I also use a live trap and when I catch whatever, I shoot it while it is still in the trap..

I lost 14 freeranging chickens in one night to a weasel, and the next night it came back and got 13 more.. they were all about 3 to 4 pounders.. so they cannot outrun a weasel, I guess..

I can just see my wife letting me bring my 100 plus assorted birds into the house..

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[redhen]

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darn! you sure they cant fly away from a weasel??

did it get them at night while they were roosting and calm?? mine are locked up tightly every night at dusk...man, now ya got me worried...and i STILL have not caught anything!

 

[jhm47]

A weasel or mink is incredibly fast, and would catch even a free-ranging chicken in a heartbeat. After all, they are predators, and they do this for a living.

Weasels especially are very hard to keep out of a cage/enclosure. They can get through a hole not much bigger than a nickel, and once inside, they will kill till there's nothing left to kill.

Some seem to think that it's wrong to humanely dispose of chicken killing predators, because they are only doing what comes naturally. I disagree. Killing frogs, snakes, grasshoppers, wild birds is what comes naturally. NOT killing chickens. Once one of these predators finds out how easy it is to kill domestic birds, they will be back till there is nothing left to kill. So, in my opinion, those predators that have learned to kill domestic animals should be removed from the gene pool, and the ones that actually do what nature intended will prosper and reproduce.

 

[redhen]

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very well said!