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Post by rebeccaferrell on Feb 2, 2011 9:24:22 GMT -6
What would you use in a live trap to bait a possum?
something got into my chicken pen couple of days ago and ate the tender heart parts out of two of my banties.
The dogs had something up at the barn last night. so me in pj's, pitiful flashlight and pistol. Had all four of them up and over piles of barn junk but i could not get to it.
perhaps stinky catfood??
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Post by Clifford on Feb 2, 2011 10:12:15 GMT -6
Sounds to me like you should use a live chicken...
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Post by rebeccaferrell on Feb 2, 2011 10:49:54 GMT -6
oh ha ha ha..somehow I knew this was coming. We'd end up catching a lacy dog if I did that
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Post by Clifford on Feb 2, 2011 11:45:13 GMT -6
Sounds like you need to train your dogs to leave the chickens alone!
I thought my idea about the chicken was great! It's what the possum is after, right?
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shayne
Puppy not yet Weaned
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Post by shayne on Feb 2, 2011 12:51:41 GMT -6
Ferrell, I use cheap can cat food, just place it in the back of the cage and you should catch it in a day or so. Also, you may want to keep it set for a few days you will be suprised what you catch.
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Post by rebeccaferrell on Feb 2, 2011 18:58:02 GMT -6
As a matter of fact Cliff they were trained not to kill them; actually took them into the pen when they were younger and the rooster didn't have 3" spurs on him. But thanks to my now deceased lab mixes, who loved the taste of chicken way before i got chickens, they picked up the bad habit of catching them.. chickens don't take well be being caught by a dog. My chickens periodically decide to commit suicide and get out. I suppose a little bitty leg monitor might help me catch the escapee well before yard wardens. Ya reacon??
Shayne..Ben and I discussed setting it tonight but figured we'd never get the dogs back inside. They'd be out there fighting over who was gonna be first to figure out how to get to it. I'll need to find a place in the barn that the dogs can't get to. Today..Ben found Lila helping herself to some plumber's putty which had been in a cabinet over a table. She'd jumped on a table to get it, then proceeded to fight off the other dogs that wanted a taste.
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Post by Clifford on Feb 2, 2011 19:27:10 GMT -6
Damn those Lacys! Well, if you can't train the dogs, maybe you can train the chickens, or just put it into the budget to keep buying more of them!
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Scott
Ready to Hunt
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Post by Scott on Feb 2, 2011 19:55:31 GMT -6
Sardines !!! Don't make it too hard to get to their kinda lazy.
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Post by thehuntermarks on Feb 4, 2011 21:42:04 GMT -6
i'd use chicken leg quarters.
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Scott
Ready to Hunt
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Post by Scott on Feb 5, 2011 9:46:22 GMT -6
Man !!! you might catch me in a trap !!! LOL.
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Post by camo on Feb 6, 2011 14:07:57 GMT -6
Not sure why but they like marsh mellows !!
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Post by bluedog on Feb 6, 2011 16:18:01 GMT -6
just put leftovers in the cage.....I didnt realize they were picky
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Post by Clifford on Feb 7, 2011 8:26:28 GMT -6
Use a dead Cow! They seem to like them ok....
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Post by rebeccaferrell on Feb 7, 2011 9:05:47 GMT -6
I'll have a hell of a time stuffing cow parts in there. I have the sardines at the ready. Husband is dilly dallying over where to place it. guess he's waiting on another murder in the chicken yard.
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Post by Clifford on Feb 7, 2011 9:28:44 GMT -6
Animals cannot be murdered, that is a human trem for a crime... Nature dictates that animals eat each other to survive! Chickens are just another part of the food chain...
If you only set the trap out after you put the dogs in for the night, you will probably catch the possum within a short period of time!
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