Possums are sorely misunderstood. Their body temperature is low, they cannot carry rabies. They are more afraid of you, then you are of them. Leave them be. They help take care of ticks, they eat a shit load of them. If they get in your trash can, just turn it on its side, walk away, they will walk out eventually. They lead very hard lives. Leave them be, they mean you no harm. Educate yourselves.
Lol they kill chickens to eat the eggs. Also, some will try to attack you if you happen to interrupt their meal of choice dog food on the back porch. A handy broom handle to send them along is nice to have.
They will kill chickens... if you have essentially zero defense. Seriously, if your chicken defense is so pathetic that an opossum is your predator of concern, you've got bigger problems. Coons, raptors, and weasels are all the greater concern. An opossum and its buds will kill one chicken. Given, they will probably kill the chicken by eating it asshole first, but it's still just one chicken.
Meanwhile coons will kill one per coon. Weasels/mustelids will go blood frenzy and might wreck your entire flock. Raptors too will kill about one per raptor.
To prevent opossum attacks basically all you need is a wall of chicken wire. Yea they're ok climbers, but too high and they'll get lazy and leave it alone. Meanwhile without a poultry net ceiling raptors will get in, and unless you've hardened every square inch of your confinement coons will find a way in because they're smart. They'll even reach through the poultry netting and pull the chickens out bit-by-bit if they need to. And of course your canid predators can dig... none of these things opossums will do.
If your chickens are getting eaten by opossums, it's not a failing of the opossum, it's a failing on your part. Because that means they're open to literally every other predator, and pretty much every other predator will do more damage than an opossum. Take losing a chicken to an opossum as a sign that you need to harden your fucking operation rather than an excuse to kill a mostly-beneficial marsupial.
My chickens and guineas have the same job of eating ticks. They are nearly free range. I don't allow raptors to hang around, I chase them off. Dogs help me take care of the foxes and such. But I allow every possum I can to go freely on my property. It means I do pay a possum tax. Some chickens die. Which is okay, if they don't make a habit of it. If I catch them in the act, they get chased off. If the same possum shows up again, they get chased off with extreme prejudice (most recent went after the same mother hen twice; he got snatched up by the tail and thrown through the woods; he got the hint that time and left). A third time and they feed the other scavengers.
good analysis. foxes, raccoons, raptors are one and done. shame on you, lesson hopefully learned. weasels will take down the whole coop in a night, though. if you are sloppy enough to be losing chickens to passive possums, its a matter of time before chupecabera weasels take out your whole coop.
what if the chicks and possum were raised together? check and mate "nature hater".
You're so full of yourself it's not worth my time to bother to tell you about it. I'm so glad you know everything about how opossums operate, you can continue being their white knight. Enjoy yourself, faggot.
They eat game eggs
They eat shit
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Better invaders of North America than some...
Wrong, fuckwit. They can carry rabies.
ALL MAMMALS
From 1970s to 2000s I think NOT ONE CASE OF HUMAN RABIES in All of New Jersey, a rabies haven
RABIES IN HUMANS IS A MYTH!
I think ENTIRE USA have one human rabies infection every year on average. JUST ONE PERSON A YEAR total.. Lightning hits and Lottery jackpots affect more people in each state in one week, than 52 weeks of entire USA.
This JEW tampered cdc site commingles foreign infections of US citizens with ACTUAL on-USA-soil infections and lists all 15 known rabies infections in USA! :
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/surveillance/human_rabies.html
SEE?! Just 15 humans in 10 years according to list from CDC
That list of 15 events on USA soil from USA animals proves rabies IS A FUCKING near-MYTH.
However.... it is not good to ever increase odds of catching rabies.
Usually an insect eating bat has to bite a woodlands creature , who then has to bite you..
Do Possums Carry Rabies? No :
https://www.abchomeandcommercial.com/blog/do-possums-carry-rabies/
THEY ALMOST NEVER GET RABIES:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544902/facts-about-opossums
opossums are rarely known to contract rabies and are even less likely to pass it on to other organisms they come into contact with
https://www.crittercontrol.com/wildlife/opossums/opossums-and-rabies
TL/DR : No human provably ever got rabies from a Possum in history. It could be constructed in a laboratory though.
BlueDrache is a paid Jew disenchanting FUCKTARD!
You are a sad example of a brainwashed douchecanoe.
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