Guess Who

[J Darcy 5,871]

Did you catch the culprit?

[J Darcy 5,871]

Depending on the size of entry could be an otter,

they often eat the meat from the back legs, guts and back leaving the head, shoulders and front legs.

I have found them killed and stashed in clumps of reeds at the side of our pond with some eaten as above.

Thats not an otter doing that I wouldn't think.....

[jiggy 3,209]

Mink

[EDDIE B 3,170]

Mink

Yea that would be the most likely culprit. They certainly like to stash their food.

[CHEVINFOX 3,574]

MINK

[Ratmanwan 66]

Did you catch the culprit?

yes he's caught.

[Ratmanwan 66]

 

Yep well done Darcy and lab, it was a rat. Caught in a snap trap 2 days later.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Yep well done Darcy and lab, it was a rat. Caught in a snap trap 2 days later.

Aye, I've seen it a few times and it always gets blamed on otters or mink......but it's rats leaving a pile of half-alive mutilated amphibians....

[Lab 10,979]

I've seen it with a pile of around 200 day old pheasants. Very annoying!!!

[EDDIE B 3,170]

Just shows the damage rats can do to wildlife. Especially if their about in high numbers. They distroy a lot of nests too, especially those of ground nesting birds.

[CHEVINFOX 3,574]

I've also seen this and it was a mink

Edited June 8, 2016 by CHEVINFOX

[peterhunter86 8,627]

Im this is sorted it had me toadly baffeld

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

We found similar under rearing sheds after pheasants with worms paralized too as well as newts . Once rats get a taste for flesh they are real b*****ds ,stopping at nothing to get it .

[Lab 10,979]

We found similar under rearing sheds after pheasants with worms paralized too as well as newts . Once rats get a taste for flesh they are real b*****ds ,stopping at nothing to get it .

Too true. Not a problem we ever had really. Always the odd rat about but they never tried to get it apart from that one time. We had build bigger sheds to take 1800 birds and you just didn't see the numbers missing until lots had gone. Then when you start looking around outside the back of the sheds you find a run. It went straight to an old 8x8 shed that wasn't being used and there was a great big pile of chicks. Raging!!!!!