What did it??

[amberu]

OK I live in burbia and have a 6ft fence around the back yard. I did have 2 black broilers that we were raising for meat..that is until one night something got into the coop and killed them. My hubby set up a hunters cam that has night vision and motion capture and this is what we got

Now at first before we had the pics I thought coon or something..now seeing these..I think weasel??? We do live near a lake...I know the pics aren't that great, but any input would help. Thanks

Amber

 

[ruby]

weasels is what it looks like to me. They wiped out my whole coop one year never caught it or killed it. There is nothing I can tell ya to get rid of them. Minks are in the same family I think.....

 

[rebecky1305]

Looks like some sort of weasel to me. You need to have strong hardware cloth for the run, with a hardware cloth apron to prevent digging. Lock chickens up in the coop at night and make sure it is predator proof. So sorry about your loss.

 

[amberu]

Thanks!! I have 4 new babies and boy the new coop is going to be very Ft Knox...LOL...this other coop was kind of thrown together since I really didn't even know I was getting chickens ( long story..lol)..so should we dig down..or just make sure that the coop is closed and locked every night?? ( oh and we are using hardware cloth on the run part).. Oh and we never even found one of the chickens..the other was wounded/in shock and didn't survive the night..the broilers were almost full size ( we were going to process them next week!!!)..so a weasel can carry off a adult hen??

Amber

 

[dacjohns]

Weasels and minks are in the same family, Mustelidae. The critter in the photo looks like a mustelid and looks like it might be 24 inches or greater if the space in the fencing is 2 inches.

A mink is about 28 inches long and a long-tailed weasel is about 16 inches long.

Is that a dead dinosaur in the photo? Mean critter to kill a dinosaur.