WORST unknown mystery predator ever!

[Chicken Cluck]

Wow your pest is causing a really bad problem! Hope you catch it!

 

[Bizzybirdy]

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rofl I used to use a 22 until one of my shots went into the neighbor's porch pillar. Luckily he wasn't sitting out and was very understanding. *I* was mortified and so embarrassed!

From that day on I have only used a 20g. unless it was to dispatch something closer than 5 ft.

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

haha....so lucky u had a nice neighbor lol

 

[Gersbud]

Had something very similiar happen to me. Turned out to be a coon. Caught him in the act early in the morning just before dawn. When I got to the coop he had the head of my silkie through the fence, which is 1/2 chicken wire. Had a friend of mine come over with his coon dogs and have not seen a coon near the coop since. Turned the hunter into the hunted.

 

[Rebel Rooster]

Stay after him! You'll get him! I've even thought about rubbin' some chickens down with tabasco sauce... One bite and he'd have to put his toilet paper in the freezer!

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

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hahaha...you sound like me.....i actually almost did that! lol i went and got my trap "tuned up" today so now its more sensitive, well see if this helps any.....

last night they took a WHOLE chicken out of the trap without setting it off at all

 

[chickflicks]

I've had trouble with racoons. Got him penned in the coop one night and it was like facing a demon. They're are cute till you face them off! Racoons are hateful predators because they mangle their prey and sometimes don't even eat it. Trap him.

 

[Rebel Rooster]

You're doin' it right! Lighten the trigger and you'll get em'. Then you can drop the "Hammer" on em'! Aggrevatin' snots!

 

[houndit]

I had something get inside a rabbit hutch and eat my young rabbits. It did not pull them through like a coon it was inside. It then sprung two live traps and took the bait. I am pretty sure it actually got inside the live trap and sprung it and them wiggled out. I thought perhaps it was a weasel. It sounds similar to what you have because it tore the legs off of some of the others and left them alive. Miraculously one lived. I have a healthy 3 legged rabbit. I hope you get it. I never was able to get whatever killed our rabbits.

 

[rancher hicks]

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If you are not locking your birds in at night that is your first mistake. It won't matter what it is. If you get this one there will be another.