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Something is getting into my chicken coop and dining on my chickens.



I want a poison to set on the top shelf to get rid of this pest, any suggestions? Rat poison in burger?



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Thanks! Long live the chickens.
 
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Get a live trap and trap the critter and then put in a barrel of water, that way no smell when it dies under the chicken coop. Been there. Tim
 
Tim1 is correct. If you should happen to poison it, it will die somewhere else and stink. Might be near your house or under it if there is access.



Live trap it. You can use a can of cat food to lure it in the trap. Most theives of the night will go for the cat food, just make sure you are prepaired for a skunk if you catch one.
 
1 part antifreeze and one part chicken broth. Put next to coop where other animals can't get to it. Keep dogs in kennel so they can't drink it.
 
Local guy here uses a small live trap for skunks. Says "if they can't raise thier tail, they won't spray". Then he sets a cardboard box over the trap and runs a hose from his exhaust pipe.
 
Sounds like you know who/what the culprit is. If it's your neighbors pet, might be safer to go over and kick his ass rather than trap or poison the critter. You can get in more trouble nowdays doing harm to an animal than you can doing something to a human. Sad state of affairs but that's where we are. bg
 
Got a skunk in my squirrel trap on one occasion... . DEP said cover with a blanket... they won't try to spray what they can't see. Open trap carefully once they are transported to their new homeland.

Worked for me.
 
I'm with BG..... fix the coupe of figure out what the critter is first.



We kept havin chickens getting killed in the chicken coupe's yard. It would only eat the breast and head. One weekend we picked this old rooster we didnt like and put a ton of bells on him and tied him up real gentil like. Locked all the other chickens in the shed. Slept on my deck w/ the shotgun and figured I would cure the problem. Well about 1:00 am the bells start ringin and we hit the switch and turn on the flood lights and guess what.



It's a Giant owl. If we would have killed it some how and somebody heard skip the fines and go directly to jail... ...



Needless to say our Chicken coupe yard got a wire top on it... ... . never heard from that owl agian... ... prolly gave the bugger the scare of his life.....
 
Owl's will take the head first and then start on the rest of it. Owl's will tell their friends where there is good eating. We had to give up having guinea's because they chose to roost in the open and the owl's killed them. The last bunch of ~15 were killed in two nights.



I built a wire topped coup for the chickens and have not lost any at night unless I forget to shut the door at night.



I would do the live trap and bait with about 1/3 can of tuna, near the front door to the coup. If you are near the DFW metromess, I will loan you one.
 
we had the same problem except it was red tailed hawks instead of Owls. We shut the birdies up at night so the owls just had to set out on the pole and hoot. Blasted hawks killed 50 of my wifes duck friends over a couple of years. Just swoop down , knock the crap out of them and then peck their eyes out first. I was told to zig zag a strand of wire across the top of the chicken lot: that the heathen feathered demons would not fly through the wires. Seemed to work. Problem we are having now is coons. I put out rat poison all the time for voles that tear up the yard, flowerbeds, yadda yadda. I found out the coons are eating the rat poison every night I put it out. They have eaten over $150. 00 of Havoc so far and has not fazed them. Night before last I left the office door open for ventilation and forgot it. My wife said she heard a noise and it was 3 coons rummaging the room. They managed to get the rat poison out from behing the file cabinet. :confused: :confused: :confused: I have counted 6 of the striped monsters so far but not much luck getting rid of them.
 
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