Show farmers dislike weasel common chicken killer the weasel may well be called the dr jekyll and mr hyde among the bearers tur fur declares a writer in the chicago tribune it has earned the enmity of farmers because of its habit of raiding chicken houses and doing great damage but mr weasel is a good friend of the farmer so long as he stays in the fields and depends upon field mice for most of his food by disposing of mice he is helping to eliminate a farm nuisance which destroys destroy thousands of dol dollars larr worth of small grains and other farm farin products each year the weasel is the smallest carnivorous animal in most sections of the country but when it goes through a farmers chicken house its size is forgotten this bloodthirsty little animal will kill chickens and other poultry just tor for the love of killing despite the fact that weasels may kill poultry occasionally they do not make such raids as often as do mink and skunks the weasel seems seema to prefer a free life in the woods to the dangerous feasts on domestic fowls when roaming through woods and fields it destroys great numbers of meadow mice sometimes ranked as the no 1 animal pest on the average farm |