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#423670 - 07/22/08 10:58 PM
Re: Darn Muskrats!
[Re: HotByte]
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#423828 - 07/23/08 11:14 AM
Re: Darn Muskrats!
[Re: athiker]
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Maybe you have some mink around as well? Does this sound like what may have happened? Mink may occasionally kill domestic poultry around farms. They typically kill their prey by biting them through the skull or neck. Closely spaced pairs of canine tooth marks are sign of a mink. Mink will attack animals up to the size of a chicken, duck, rabbit, or muskrat. While eating muskrats, a mink will often make an opening in the back or side of the neck and skin of the animal by pulling the head through the hole as it feeds. Like some other members of the weasel family, mink occasionally exhibit “surplus killing” behavior (killing much more than they can possibly eat) when presented with an abundance of food, such as in a poultry house full of chickens. Mink may place many dead chickens neatly in a pile. Mink can eat significant numbers of upland nesting waterfowl or game bird young, particularly in areas where nesting habitat is limited. http://homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=34967*see post by Nan(TX) 11/21/03, 1:19 PM EDIT: Reading further it could be an owl as well?...though they just mention fowl as prey...also read a bit re: raccoons and headless fowl carcasses. Interesting, let us know what you find out.
Edited by athiker (07/23/08 11:22 AM)
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