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susie
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Stepped outside to throw some scraps out for chickens to peck on tomorrow when they get up. Have a visitor. Thought about posting to see if anyone in the neighborhood was missing a pet. Lol. I think it has caught on to the scrap availability. It didn't run. Just tucked itself under the little porch I have out front.
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If you start finding partially ate chickens that would be suspect No1
better kill that critter
Grab with leather gloves and twist neck.............unless you want it hanging around eating ticks and other insects.
And they reek havoc on rats.
It needs to waddle over to the barn and eat some voles and mice. It was gone by the time I got the flashlight and S&W. Chickens have decided to roost on the deck. Heeler sleeps out there and protects them.
cats seem to make buddies with them and they do steal eggs and will go after chickens I think only if nothing else around but I do not take the chance
I hauled one off two weeks ago caught in a live trap his buddy not so lucky when I shined a flash light on him the week before with a 22 pointed in the same direction by the chicken coop
I do not keep score but would guess 50/50 on DRT or relocated over the years Most I just corner and pick up by the tail even the live trap ones its by the tail and out
they put on quit a show but as many as I have picked up only one nipped me he got turned around in a tight space while I was grabbing at his tail ( I do wear gloves by the way 😉 )
Our dogs treed one in our apple tree at 3 AM. We were living in town at the time, so I was loading up the pellet rifle. Wife throws a fit, "DO NOT kill it! Haul it off!". So I catch it with welding gloves, stuff it in a box, drive about 10 miles out of town and dump it in a ditch. THEN I shoot it with my Ruger 22 pistol that just happened to be in my truck.
I just had an epiphany. I have a live trap just his size. I believe he would make perfect coyote bait; still alive and causing all kinds of stink. Two birds, one stone, OAN, two bullets. Is 30.06 overkill? Lol.
Time to find yourself a nice little yard rifle....
susie I used a model 94 in 44Mag to kill my last coyote, so yeah a 30.06 should do the trick...
For a Coyote a 155 Howitzer is not too large.
Do possums really eat rats?
They'll eat about anything they can catch
They do their crime at night.
along the line of have young ones If I catch a female possum depending on the time of year My wife wants to check its pouch
make sure its not carrying LOL
I shot a chipmunk with a 44 mag.It was digging in a flower bed beside the utility shed.After the shot it looked like someone hit the side of the shed with a tomato.
Wife had a couple possum's as pets years ago.
Mother's got smashed and the little ones were orphaned.
She took them almost everywhere. Didn't live long enough to get very big, maybe the size of your hand.
Had a pet woodchuck for several years, could not turn your back on him. He would chew through someting pretty quick.
Very interesting creatures and cleaner than a lot of people.