Snapping turtle attacks chickens!

I got a favourite fishin hole. It is a bridge over top of a small river and I fish for northerns off of it. Every time I fish there a great big old snapper comes and grabs hold of my sucker minnow. Anyone know a friendly way to get rid of him or just make him move?? possibly offer up some live chickens??
 
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I caught this 22" Alligator snappping turtle trying to feed on my chickens- needless to say he failed.

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Dude! That's a Common Snapper, not Alligator. Impressive snapper all the same. It was definitely out looking to lay eggs not attack chickens. Aquatic turtles like this snapper can't and won't eat out of the water. They don't capture prey and drag it into the water. How new is your chicken coop? It's either on the site of where this turtle has probably laid eggs for many years or is smack dab in the path to the place where this turtle has always laid its eggs.
-moss
 
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I got a favourite fishin hole. It is a bridge over top of a small river and I fish for northerns off of it. Every time I fish there a great big old snapper comes and grabs hold of my sucker minnow. Anyone know a friendly way to get rid of him or just make him move?? possibly offer up some live chickens??

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Snapping turtles have great site fidelity and very good sense of direction. So if you move it it will attempt to return and probably get run over crossing as many roads as it takes to get there.

There's always another snapper waiting to fill the void if you take this one out. Unless you want to get into the long term snapper removal business try this, take a couple of hotdogs or chicken gizzards and toss them in off to the side of where you want to fish. Then put your minnow in and fish.
-moss
 
I have a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science, only know a little about the subject if repriles and amphibians- thanks for the correction. The eggs are laid each year in a drainage ditch 15-20 feet away from the coop which is 5 years old. This ditch is 300 yards from the pond they inhabit. Last year a turtle was ran over in almost the same spot. Don't be so sure he wasn't after my birds moss- you have never tasted them! Are you going to be at the NEC TCC?
 
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I have a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science, only know a little about the subject if repriles and amphibians- thanks for the correction. The eggs are laid each year in a drainage ditch 15-20 feet away from the coop which is 5 years old. This ditch is 300 yards from the pond they inhabit. Last year a turtle was ran over in almost the same spot. Don't be so sure he wasn't after my birds moss- you have never tasted them! Are you going to be at the NEC TCC?

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Didn't mean to come off as world's foremeost authority. I caught so many big snappers as a kid, they are my favorite living dinosaur. So the turtle is definitely way older than your coop. Snappers are like bulldozers, they go were want until they run into something they can't get over, then they go around.

I wish I could go to the NEC TCC, I'll be visiting in Oregon on that date.
-moss
 
We used to pull in some big ones when I was a kid in taut lines- 50+ LBS! I was a canoe guide in the Boundary Waters and the Quetico Province in Canada for a while, had my fair share of fish come up missing off the stringer. Wish you'd be at NECTCC- have a safe trip.
 
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