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?

if he has to check the birds every day , just keep those set , I bet every 3rd night or so you are picking up another coon or two.

I was trapping around poultry last year August through end of October. cleaned out a 5 on night 1 and 3 on night 3 then 1-2 every 3rd night on average that many birds keeps them wandering in from a good ways off.

not sure if he is running a hot wire outside his enclosures that helps have to keep a width mowed down some but a single hot wire about 8 inches off the ground seems to help. I have video of coon and coyote getting close to the wire and turning around to leave.

if you can identify the direction the coon come in from in my case it was from a creek 1 mile to the south west of where the birds were , the more traps you get on that travel route the more likely to have them caught before they get to the birds.

I couldn't trap that creek , it was a different land owner but focusing traps in that direction while keeping some out for other directions also most of my catch was one corner of the field.

New ones will come with a wind direction change.
They smell them like they do sweet corn.
Or combine dust (hint).

I need to get new wire and stuff for my fencer. zzzzt

blue bucket pulled a double on 2 juviniles,lol.got one more juvinile last night.there were only about 10 birds left after the first night in that pen.i can only imagine the ruckus in that pen the first night.he said another friend that raises birds does the hot wire thing and that eliminated his problems,but for now its DOA

just so you dont brag me up too much the count is 1 adult and 4 juvies as of now,LOL.and there was about 10 left after the first night,he found some more dead ones in the tall grass the next day.theres about another 100 in the pen next to it,so definitly gotta keep those safe