Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

So chicken was living in my small dog crate and stinking up the basement so I put her in the barn late this morning so she can stretch and I can clean the crate and air out the basement. Hubby goes out early this evening to check the traps and refresh the frozen bait. I follow him out, not 5 minutes later to bring chicken in for the night. I waited until just after dark so she will have roost since she is loose in the barn and I wont have to chase her around. The cam showed the other night it was after 230 am when the last chicken attack happened and there have been no chickens in the barn since boxing day.

Yep, you guessed it, dead chicken in the alleyway....and weasel standing over her again!!! Run into the house to get hubby, maybe we can corner the bastard and run him through with a pitch fork/ Hubby comes out. Chicken is now in a puddle of blood, so he had been back at her. I must have just missed getting her out safely by minutes. The nervy weasel comes out from under the rabbit cage and stares at us. Backs off and runs around a bit, then comes back over towards us...absolutely no fear. He'd look at the chicken then at us...so wanted to grab his chicken from right in front of us. We got the pitch fork then he decided to be a little more cautious and hid again.. We put three rat traps right where the chicken was, dripped her blood right on them. Can't believe he got my last chicken!!

Oh no!!!! I am so sorry rhonda!!!! You will get it tonight. The little *#&$%÷=/$€/^ !!!

OMG! I can not believe the luck. Or lack of actually.

Thats heartbreaking, Rhonda...I'm very sorry....barns have got to be the toughest places to secure against predators...easy enough to keep out coyotes but those little guys are a horror show...hope at least that you get him...a good friend lost her entire flock of quality laying hens to raccoons in the barn coop overnight a couple of weeks back...not pretty...

So sorry, Rhonda. That's heartbreaking. Hope you catch the little

So sorry to hear about your loss.
We had a weasel several years ago get into our barn and the chicken pen and kill several and even got into the house and almost kill the pet rabbit. We tried to trap it but it eventually disappeared as we did manage to secure all the pens so it couldn't get in. It was brazen too, often out looking at us, even in our bathroom! The guys chased it around the laundry room with a baseball bat, but couldn't dispatch it.
One of the things that I think drove it off was a feral cat that moved into the barn. I've seen on several occasions barn cats killing weasels and it may have killed our killer weasel. It's been several years now and we have had no sign of another weasel and now have 2 barn cats on petrol in the barn and outside coops. They have also helped with a rat problem too.
So, not sure if you have any barn cats but they may also help.

We also had a cat that killed a weasel. She was soooo proud of herself. At the time I didn't realize that you had a good cat if it could catch and kill a weasel. And she was a house cat that went out during the day!
Have had cats since but not one that caught a weasel
Ours would not eat the weasel? Not sure why
I agree. Get a few barn cats. Worth a try
Good luck
Hope you get the bast

No weasel in the traps this morning. Just feeling so frustrated, and stupid we have caught weasels before so figured no problem. This must be a ninja weasel ! it might move off now that his source of food is all used up...the rats in the barn seem to be gone now too. In the spring we will weasel proof cages in the barn and start again.

That's awful Rhonda, so frustrating, so devastating. Sorry for your loss.

Colleen Kinzie wrote: Ours would not eat the weasel? Not sure why

If you have ever opened up a weasel to autopsy it - it STINKS! Maybe that's why.