need to kill a chicken killer- how to poison?

jose bagge · Nov 25, 2009

Got 8 more chickens last week, giving us 12 total. build a big chicken yard 12x30, 6ft high chain link with PVC hoops over the top, completely covered in plastic chicken wire/ tarp. Seemed pretty tight. Last night something got in, but not in an obvious way- no holes. killed and took 4 birds- feathers and blood, but not a scratch on the others. looks like racoon tracks in the pen- do they eat chickens? need best way to knock him off, short of gun. explain the "coke and poison" deal to me!

Kruse · Nov 25, 2009

Yes, they eat chickens. So do opossums.
About a month ago, I had to go over to mom's place and shoot a raccon that had gone in her chicken shed and killed one of her chickens. This was about 3:00 in the afternoon.

wfw · Nov 25, 2009

just get some blue marlin flybait and mix it with coke or pepsi, or any sweet drink. do not use diet drinks. works on coons, groundhogs, possums. I mix it in a aluminum pie tin.

Case e · Nov 25, 2009

I had to move our chicken shed up closer to the house so our trusty dogs could help patrole. Was loosing birds at a rate of 1 per night, am guessing it was a wessel as the neck was punctured but the body was mostly left alone.

CB in central NY · Nov 25, 2009

It might be rats. Rats are voracious hunters and prey on younger birds. This past spring and summer we lost a bunch of youngsters (chicks) to rats, so we covered the coops with 1/2" hardware cloth (floors inside and outside where the wall meets the groud). Then we declared war on the rats. My wife and I took a bunch with a .22 (good target practice) and the rest were killed by our barn cats. We tried regular rat traps but they did not work, and we couldn't use poison because of the cats. So far, so good, haven't seen a rat in weeks...

Had a coon before take a chicken as well.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 25, 2009

I found a simple way to use rat poison around cats, put a 20" by 20" or so piece of plywood on the ground, put the rat poison on it then put a milk create up side down over it. Then put a brick or something heavy on it to keep it in place. Rats and mice will go in but the cats cant fit. J

El Toro · Nov 25, 2009

Coons will eat them, had that problem when I was a teen. Caught him in trap gave him a 22 shot in the head. No more disappearing chickens. Hal

Alex.C · Nov 25, 2009

Yes they will!!!! One was getting some of my grandmothers and I fixed him with a 20 gauge and a flash light. Skunks some times do but they prefer the eggs, easier to steal. Set out some live traps with a raw chicken thigh or a raw piece of beef severely tied down to make them work at it and set off the trap.
Alex

hay · Nov 25, 2009

Set a live trap baited with tuna or peanut butter and then you can dispatch the 'killer'.

Dave anderson · Nov 25, 2009

grape soda and fly posion. don't know if legal

just another old geezer · Nov 25, 2009

Amish neighbor had chickens dissapearing. all the fencing didn't help. until he added mesh "roof". that solved the problem. thief turned out to be a bald Eagle.

mmidlam · Nov 25, 2009

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msb · Nov 25, 2009

If its a meat eater. Inject a piece of meat with permanent antifreeze. Non selective--means dogs, cats, coons, possums. Its a "permanent" cure.

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