You can also buy a skunk trap for around $30.00, I understand. Then, you're supposed to drown them if you want to kill them. If you want to catch them, you're supposed to cover the trap with a trash bag or tarp this will keep them from spraying. We set traps, but didn't catch any.They were totally unscared of us. We had an awful time with them but were finally able to barricade them out of the barn. They dug a tunnel under the nest boxes and would come up under them when the hen went in to lay. They killed three or four of our large chickens, and also were eating a lot of eggs. On the flip side, this year the skunks were back and had a den in our barn. We only lost one chicken to a skunk last year, and that was a male skunk.and that was because the dumb rooster jumped down and challenged it. We left them alone because, we had NO problems with mice or rats that year. All the skunks would walk around with the chickens, and they all tolerated each other.
Her babies would come out on the barn floor in the afternoon, and play. Last year a mother raised her babies in our barn. We have had multiple experiences with skunks. They on occation can spray right at death if not shot perfectally in the head. Maybe it would work OK if you had a way to drag the trap to a sutable place to shoot the skunk but I havent found a perfect way to do that and learning with skunks is not my idea of a good time. If you dont have the cool stick, you have to attach a rope and slowly drag it to a sutable place to drown it or reliese it (shoot upon exiting trap).Ī skunk in a leghold trap is easier to shoot because of no cage around it but skunks smell like fresh shot skunks so I dont like to do this, I prefer the livetrap. Animal control has a stick with a needle on the end so they reach around it and stick the skunk, he goes out and never sprays. All they see is a 4 foot wide and 6 foot tall white blob moving tward them and they dont view it as a threat. To get close to a skunk in a live trap, hold up a sheet or blanket in front of you so it cant see what is going on behind it. I dont think instant kill traps are allowed anymore although a landowner/farmer may be granted additional rights to use them (you might want to look it up for your state if you want to use them). A leghold trap on the other hand is much more startling. Skunks in a live trap usually dont spray, its only a thunk of the door shutting and that wont work them up too much.
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