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later that day I was down with the pigs and looked up towards the coop and I saw a ground hog digging trying to get into the coop

a friend said she had heard of a ground hog killing a chicken but was probably just after the feed

so I laid out a bait pile

and sat with my air rifle, and waited

after 4 hours of sitting in my blind it was starting to get dark, so I called it a night

the next morning I saw the bait had been hit hard by my nemesis.

later that afternoon I was walking past the coop and could see that something had been digging out the corner of the coop

the chickens were all sitting in the corner of the run, which was not normal, so I peaked into the window of the coop and the ground hog was in there munching away on the chicken feed. Before I could move he saw me and bolted back out the hole.

at this point I had enough, I went and grabbed a trap out of my pantry and locked the chickens out into the run so they didn't stick their neck in the trap

three hours later I went to check on the trap

kvr28 1, groundhog 0

thanks greenie!