dang,my buddy that trains dogs went out to his holding pen for pheasants this morning to find 75 ,yes 75 dead pheasants! mostly head/neck kills.pen has a top too,so not a bird,am thinking mink or coon but mostly mink.i caught one for him about 5 years ago that did the same thing,just not as many.he has another pen right next to it that he thinks itll come back to,so the war begins my friends

Mink must have been exhausted after all that, lol, good luck getting him!

75 birds is a lot for any one bird killer to polish off. This time of year, A#1 chicken killers are often mamma coon and this year's hatch. She is teaching them to hunt.....and they all get to kill a bird or two. But 75 is even a lot for the 3, 4 or 5 of them to deal with. Maybe 2 or 3 sets of coon could do it. Missing heads and such, but they also tend to strip out some breast meat, and often drag one or two out of the pen......which mink and weasels usually don't do. Am curious to see what it turns out to be.

Any fisher around your neck of the woods?

some breasts were eaten.im gonna lay it heavy with bucket sets for the coon and blind sets for mink along the outside perimeter and see what happens,no domestics too worry about,soo gonna hit it heavy and see,results tomorrow hopefully.no fisher around here sam

That Sucks !!

That's a big financial hit

I lost over 75 12 week old chickens in one night. We lived right of a creek and I highly expect it was mink as like your friends, mostly just the head was gone.

They killed the whole flock so I never set any traps wish I knew what truly killed mine. Hope you catch yours

We figured about 1100.00 worth put out 10 pails.half blue buckets,lol

Well it was coon,can’t get pictures to upload but I got mama and 3 little ones,buddy is happy,will let traps soak for a while yet

Keep traps running hot and you might get same again tonight. I doubt those 4 alone took out 75 birds in one night. they probably had help.

You were right the first time,I reset everything and rebaited,told him we will let soak for a while,he had everything pulled out ,so I wasn’t there,but he said 2 little ones in same 220 blue bucket lol,and momma in a 160 wood box,baited with canned cat food and anice oil

Two adult coons and five juveniles in two days, Good job HT. I'm sure you're going to leave them set a few more nights, wouldn't be a surprise if you get some more.

That's a lot of birds. Did the coon get all of them or did they leave some?

Wow, that is terrible! I hope you can do some damage and the rest of the birds can survive.

How did the blue buckets do?