Re: Chicken
[Re: Coondog6]
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12/29/15 04:50 PM
12/29/15 04:50 PM
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Did you client also set Weasel Boxes? My guess a mink. JMO But there maybe more to the story that you are not hearing about.
To Old U.S. Army 60-63 SGT.
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Re: Chicken
[Re: Paul Winkelmann]
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12/29/15 07:14 PM
12/29/15 07:14 PM
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Well I'm certainly glad that their phone finally got fixed. Haha...was thinking the same thing.
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Re: Chicken
[Re: Coondog6]
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12/29/15 07:34 PM
12/29/15 07:34 PM
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My first suspect would be a fox. This one was climbing a six-foot fence to get a few chicken dinners. At first it would take only one chicken per night, later it started killing a couple before escaping the pen. Another fox killed 57 domestic ducks in one night.
Note to self- Engage brain before opening mouth (or hitting the ENTER key/SUBMIT button).
Ron Fry
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Re: Chicken
[Re: Coondog6]
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12/30/15 09:34 AM
12/30/15 09:34 AM
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Ron Scheller
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Yep.... Every time I've had this scenario it has been a mink. Coons, foxes, opossums, rats, owls or hawks (daytime) seldom leave them as you described.
Ron Scheller
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Re: Chicken
[Re: Coondog6]
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12/30/15 12:56 PM
12/30/15 12:56 PM
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Paul Winkelmann
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I am not making this up. For nearly twenty years the only window in my second story bedroom overlooked the neighbor's chicken coop. I
was kind of amazed at all the different wildlife that loved a good chicken dinner. Domestic dogs, red fox, and raccoons were the
largest. Norway rats, mink, feral cats, and weasels were the smallest. Opossum and skunks were regular visitors but they were only
interested in the eggs. Sometimes it would be a race to see who got the eggs first; the animals or the neighbor lady. I also learned
to identify great horned owls, red tailed and red shouldered hawks, and Cooper's and sharp-shinned hawks all thanks to that chicken
coop. They rarely killed a chicken but always seemed interested. In the early fifties we caught a guy dressed in Confederate
clothes trying to get at some of the fryers. I remember his name was Col. Harland something or other. I wonder what happened to
him? ( I might have made up that last part )
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