- Jul 4, 2009
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It is 3 am and for the third night I have gone to the coop because my dogs have gone nuts. The first night I found an adult hen dead in the coop. I left it there until morning. In the morning it had been draged out of the coop, but still in the barn and eaten on.
I left in again and set a cage trap, the next night it had been moved again, further from the coop, but still in the barn, and eaten on some more. No new victims. All that was left were the wings and some scraps. I left it again and rebaited the trap.
Tonight the wings and scraps were gone and no other chickes were touched.
What is this?
Went in under the coop.
Comes back night after night and eats on the same bird. Cleans it to the bone.
Eats a dead chicken and ignors a cage trap baited with meat scraps
Does not seem like typical coon behavior. Is this how a fox operates? Never had one before, but I would have thought it would drag it off and not eat it inside the barn.
Need advice and a nights sleep.
Dave
I left in again and set a cage trap, the next night it had been moved again, further from the coop, but still in the barn, and eaten on some more. No new victims. All that was left were the wings and some scraps. I left it again and rebaited the trap.
Tonight the wings and scraps were gone and no other chickes were touched.
What is this?
Went in under the coop.
Comes back night after night and eats on the same bird. Cleans it to the bone.
Eats a dead chicken and ignors a cage trap baited with meat scraps
Does not seem like typical coon behavior. Is this how a fox operates? Never had one before, but I would have thought it would drag it off and not eat it inside the barn.
Need advice and a nights sleep.
Dave