egg stealer

[josephmrtn]

got home last night around 10:30 dad went out to the barn to check the cows, soon he came running in saying theres something in the chicken pen!! i ran upstairs unlocked my shotgun and grabbed my spotlight we ran down to the chicken pen and started shining, we could see some eyes in the grass so we climbed over the fence and walked thru the pen, then we saw it... it was an opposum, 1 round of remington nitro turkey put him out of buisness and then we all headed back to the house to get to bed.....

(i used turkey load cause i thought it was prob a coon and also i didnt have any target load)

[Paula]

lucky, they will kill your hens also

[G-Man]

Good riddence! i remember 20 years ago it was rare to see an opposum..now there are everywhere!

[Pygmy]

lucky, they will kill your hens also

I'm sure a grinner would kill a chicken under the right circumstances, but over about 40 years having chickens, I can never remember losing one to a possum..Just eggs..

I have lost my share to coons, foxes, and hawks, however.

I nearly lost some to a mink once..There was snow on, and the mink tracks led right up from the creek toward my chicken coop...He never quite made it..My yard dawg intercepted Mr Mink and he was laying outside my back door when I found him.

[verminater71]

mink are nasty little bast**.....they killed 2 of mine

but my hogs ate a half dozen in 1 summer go figure my worst predator was my future breakfast

Edited December 17, 2012 by verminater71

[Paula]

I did loose chicks a few yrs ago i thought mink or weasle? but have in my head everything with kill my girls

[Pygmy]

mink are nasty little bast**.....they killed 2 of mine

but my hogs ate a half dozen in 1 summer go figure my worst predator was my future breakfast

Yeah..Hogs will kill and eat anything they can catch, including small children..

Remember how upset the hired men got when DOROTHY fell into the pig pen ?..hehehe..

[growalot]

Yep a mink CHEWED through 2 layers of chicken wire and plastic lattice...to get into and kill a rooster and 6 hens...left them there...he got a nasty surprise when he returned....Now allI use is 1/4 in hard wire....expensive from the start but no lost birds now.....

[Paula]

wait i am missing 4 hens and who knows for how long, forgot about them

[growalot]

but my hogs ate a half dozen in 1 summer go figure my worst predator was my future breakfast

Hahaha how the term bacon and eggs came about......

[Paula]

haha

[josephmrtn]

yeah we use the 5 ft hard wire too... we had a weasle in there last winter and had 5 or 6 killed...