@@Weasels in the Chicken coop@@

[Hawgdawg]

Anybody have any friendly advice on bait etc.  Thanks, Dawg

[lokidog]

Chicken carcasses seem to work the best....   

We've lost a bunch to mink this last year, I have now trapped three and blasted two others.  They seemed to mostly ignore the duck carcasses, but as soon as I used the chickens, they hit more often.

Make sure you have no more than a 1/4 inch gap along the sides of your trap door.  The mink were able to slip out of about a 5/8 inch gap on one of my traps until I modified it.

Good luck, we had one kill three of our Silkies the night before our vacation, but found a carcass in one of the traps when we returned.     It tripped the one with the chicken carcass and somehow got out, but got caught later in one with a duck.

[pd]

Not so much advice, but some words of encouragement.  We always seem to have problems with raccoons, opossums, and field rats bothering the coops at nighttime during the wintertime.  We are almost done with this season, so your problem should go away.

We sleep almost 12 months through the year with the bedroom windows opened (just a crack), and can hear the geese call out when there are predators about.  Like LokiDog, we just blast away.  12-guage at 10 yards makes for raccoon hamburger in the yard in the morning.

[h2ofowlr]

Chickens seem to work.  They always pull them in.  Now you just have to be there when they show up.  They can be chicken killing machines.

[snowpack]

Try eggs or mice

[Moss Back]

i use raw hamburger.... nothing else.

[Hawgdawg]

thanks folks will keep you posted. Loki Dawg you back from Cancun already. Get that dirt rototilled!

[huntingfool7]

Weasel Box Design

[HighCountryHunter88]

Jagdterrier

[lokidog]

thanks folks will keep you posted. Loki Dawg you back from Cancun already. Get that dirt rototilled!

Yep, back to this gray, wet, hellhole....     I actually got a bunch of the garden weeded before the rains settled in again.

I once shot a weasel off the back of a chicken with my .22 pistol, couldn't believe I hit the thing.  Unfortunately, I also finished off the chicken with the pass-through.   

[troyspinetar]

We had a weasel in our garage, I set a havahart trap with everything....nothing! I'm sure they are smarter than me. I saw him that one and only time.
We recently lost 4 of our chickens, something got in and scared em. The chickens ran away. We got all but 4 back. Don't know if that was the weasel or some other critter.

[Fishstiq]

Best defense I have found is to keep 'em out in the first place, but that's easier said than done.  Do you know how they are getting in?  I'm planning to redo our coop soon, and we sill be burying hardware cloth 12" down all the way around the boarder to keep out diggers.  I'm still working on what we will do for a roof on the run..... 

[Hawgdawg]

Weasel Box Design

 :yeah:Thanks huntingfool7. Great idea. It's a neighbor that's having the trouble. He also has some rats so this might be dual purpose.  Thanks, Hawgdawg