Which predator and how to stop it!?

[aprophet]

a mink or a stoat will kill and not eat it a fox would take the kill away if it all possible

 

[Fraoch21]

so its probably not a mink then since some of them were eaten...
i dont think live traps are the best idea for my area, there are loads of cats around and i wouldnt know what to do with it if i caught something

I dont know about a fox, it would have to climb the fence and surely it would have been able to take all the dead turkeys away with it?

 

[aprophet]

I am sorry sometimes my post's are clear to me just not to others . a mink will sometimes kill and just eta a little sometimes they will just consume the blood much like a weasel as this species gets larger they tend to eat more of what they kill but when mom is trying to raise a litter she will eat some and go hunt somemore sometimes a kill will be dragged into the den sometimes left at the mouth of the den I have trapped Muskrats only to have them half eaten with mink tracks close by LOL

 

[Fraoch21]

ohh i see now

so mink could kill an adult turkey then?

 

[dlee]

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We lost 6 chickens & couldn't figure out the culprit. I finally set out leg traps & got a possum. For the next 3 weeks we got 4 more possum. They can climb up & in just about anything. The ones we caught were all on the roof ( that's where I set the traps ). I used Polish sausage for bait. Haven't had anymore problems.

 

[aprophet]

I am not sure what kind of turkeys you have I have found Muscovy ducks killed when I cleaned out the family of mink the killing stopped not a double blind survey but ......

 

[EM Squared Farms 2]

There are these special lights that look like owl eyes and those sometimes scare off predators. A trap would work well too.