Last Monday morning at 2 A.M. the wife wakes me saying something is killing a rooster. We have 2 huge roosters that roam free and sleep in a cedar tree. I slip my boots on and grab a shotgun and light. By that time the squawking had stopped and I walked the perimeter looking for eyes thinking raccoon. I carefully looked around chicken pen to see there was no digging around the house and make sure I had fastened the door that night, sometimes I do forget but not often. All seemed ok but i didn't open the pen up to go look in the chicken house, I had my pajamas on an didn't want to get dirty, besides I could see nothing could have got in the house, still thinking coon. Went by the cedar tree and both roosters were in it, first time I looked I only saw one. So I'm thinking he got loose and back in the tree.
When daylight came I went to let the hens out and 100% of the 10 hens were dead. Absolutely no damage to them except the throat, heads were still in tact. I'm thinking mink but the only opening is below the door and it 1 1/4'' wide. So then I'm thinking weasel.
I piled the chickens in the middle of the house and set 2 #3's at the door with it open a little. I like big traps and big pans with hair night latches for that circumstance, lol. Tuesday night came and went and had nothing. So Wednesday morning I closed the door and laid a board on the trap outside so my wife's pet squirrels wouldn't get caught. Wed nite I went out there to take the board off and open the door and lo and behold I had the culprit on the inside. He came back sometime in the day time and went thru that 1 1/4'' space under the door.

I never did think my wife as one who seeks revenge but when I showed her that dead mink her smile sure seemed she likes revenge, lol.

Blood thirsty little guy. Guess he ordered more off the KFC menu than he could afford, lol.

Dang, wiped out all ten hens. At least you got it. Now you're going to be buying eggs the next six or seven months at least until you can get a new flock up and running.

I think I would have butchered nine of those hens and saved them for chicken-noodle soup.

Good work.

We had a mink kill 13 hens in one night this fall. He came back for seconds and didn't get to enjoy them.

I have a local old farmer that I buy eggs from. He usually keeps 50-65 chickens at any given time.

Twice over the years he has called me with a mink problem.

Killed all 65 the first time in one night.

This past spring only about half of the flock.

We tore apart the floor in that coup and put down all new wood after catching that mink.

with all the rain here last night the creeks must be flooded , saw a mink running across the road about 2 blocks from the piggly wiggly , good size one too right in the middle of town but only about a block from a drainage ditch that runs to a pond