Guy I know used to have a saying when he got hungry, he'd say "I'm so hungry I could eat the ass outa a dead horse" lol
Use sardines as bait. Works well on coons but I dont know about grinners.
Make a circle around your place until you find a feather trail I tracked a coon right to his den tree after he hauled off one of my chickens.
I wouldn't use a real smelly bait, you will draw in critters from all over. You don't want several coming in. You catch one in trap and the rest hassle your chickens all night.
Baiting with the carcass is good, but jab a rebar fence post through the trap, carcass and then into ground so something has to work at it to get it out and can't grab it and run. Most likely to catch the varmint doing this than everything that smells an oily fish smell.
Baiting with the carcass is good, but jab a rebar fence post through the trap, carcass and then into ground so something has to work at it to get it out and can't grab it and run. Most likely to catch the varmint doing this than everything that smells an oily fish smell.
Like bassin said, stake down the carcass in the back of the trap. Otherwise, set a steel trap in font of the trap door. A trap wise coon or coyote won't expect it......which is what is reaching across, one of the two.
I cant believe rats are seriously in this discussion.
after some reading, I believe your dealing with an opossum. They call them **** eatin opossum for a reason. I seen one crawl out the ass end of a dead cow once.
Probably Syrian refugees.
That was my next guess, they went in through the butt and gutted the bird causing major terror in the coop.
I would guess a raccoon, you'll hardly get a coyote to into a livetrap, especially if it's not starving and if it had just ate the ass out of that bird then it couldn't be that hungry. I have caught coons eating the ass out of beavers(....too easy) that I caught in foothold traps on more than one occasion. My guess would be coon, I would think if it was a skunk you would catch at least a faint whiff of it. If it is a coon or a grinner and you're nearby, I will take it off your hands for you. I need to do a little training with my terriers and haven't had a chance to set any live traps lately.
