Weasels??? What do you know about them??

[Miss Chuckles]

Weasels can contort and fit through the smallest spaces - we have stoats which are a type of weasel and they look like 2 mice stuck together. Despite being really small these guys love to take down and eat full sized hares (they can be up to 10 x's their size) by chasing them until exhaustion and basically biting them until the animal just gives up. You could try to trap but they are pretty smart little guys (I'm not so sure killing wildlife is such a great idea plus they are good pest control as they love to eat rats). We have a jr terrier that patrols the grounds and has chased a few off - this and a fine gauged chicken wire seem to protect the girls (we also use the human hair trick but I'm not sure how much that works and we put the radio out in the coop if we're away for the day - the chicks seem to like classical).

 

[bantyshanty]

I know this post is a bit old now, but, what is the human hair trick? Do you leave a little to scent the place? I need something like that.

 

[CPF Kate]

I've lost so many birds to something - so far I've had to dispatch a chicken and two ducks, with one duck surviving minus part of her bill. The injuries are all very similar: the back of their necks (and in the case of the chicken the back of her skull as well) ripped off - and the birds left alive. I also had several birds taken at all times of day and had one killed and partially eaten through the coop wire.

I have a trail cam set up hoping to get an ID for kore effective trapping, but does the damage sound like a mink?

 

[bigoledude]

Oh, I am absolutely positive killing predators is 100% effective!! You see, a dead predator will never kill again!

Any of the weasel family will return to the area of a former meal. And anything in the weasel family is relatively easy to trap. There is tons of information on YouTube. Look up trapping weasels, trapping mink, trapping fishers, martin, ermine whatever other weasel you can think of. Pay close attention and try different techniques, you'll get it.