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Finaly Got That Sucker!!!!!!

post #1 of 37
10/28/11 at 9:15am
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the nite we bought our first roo and hen,the hen was killed by a coon.i went and bought a steel trap that next morning.havnt seen signs of any preditors since then,with the exception of a possum i shot,until tuesday morning.tuesday we found our silky roo and hen,as well as our coaching roo had been taken durring the nite:(.it looked like a crime scene in that pen,which it was of course.
i went to TSC and bought 2 more live traps.and finaly this morning we had a HUGE coon in the steel trap!i use to coon hunt,and this was the biggest boar coon  i had ever seen!he has since been eliminated, and the traps reset in case there are more.


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post #2 of 37
10/28/11 at 2:08pm

Glad you got it.  Good idea to keep your traps out.  Probably a few more around.

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post #3 of 37
10/29/11 at 2:59am

Keep your traps set. I caught 13 coons and maybe 10 possums over the summer while trapping groundhogs. I live in the city surrounded by homes and thought there was nothing but squirrels and cottontails.Sorry for your loss.

2013 Captures-4 coons, 1 possum, 1 groundhog.
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post #4 of 37
10/29/11 at 5:23am

keep your traps set his friends will show up . good luck

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post #5 of 37
10/30/11 at 6:23am
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sorry i wasnt able to get on yesterday.but yesterday morning we had 2 more coons in traps.one in a live trap,and one in the same steel trap.nothing this morning,but im still leaving the traps set.i  just have a feeling there are still more around here.

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post #6 of 37
10/30/11 at 6:41am

It's sad to lose the hens but very productive with the traps. Congratulations.

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post #7 of 37
9/21/12 at 10:39am
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i havnt been on in quite a while,just wanted to give a quick update.

in the last few months i have caught 17 coons,7possums,2 wild cats and one verrry confused turtle in live traps at my chicken lot.

in all this time i have only lost two chickens,and neither were to predators.one little hen hen just fell over dead in front of us.and a older black sexlink passed to old age. 

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post #8 of 37
9/21/12 at 12:15pm

That's the kind of numbers we like to see!  A new kind of chicken math...Chicken 26 / Predators zero!  For the year to date  my box score is: raccoon 4, skunk 1, woodchuck 1, red squirrel 6, rat one, and not one chicken lost (yeah!),  so I'm at Chickens 13 / Varmints zero.   I decided to include the red squirrels (grain thieves) and the woodchuck (eats garden treats).
 

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post #9 of 37
9/21/12 at 10:50pm

I'm good at trapping squirrels...What's good bait for raccoons and CATS???  Cat food?  Tuna?  I have a cat problem amongst other night predators.

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post #10 of 37
9/22/12 at 8:06am
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I'm good at trapping squirrels...What's good bait for raccoons and CATS???  Cat food?  Tuna?  I have a cat problem amongst other night predators.

the best i have found is mixing dry catfood with peanut butter.racoons go CRAZY over it!what realy suprised me was that was what i caught the 2 wild domestic cats with as well.

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