Trapping Coons- Best bait to use

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Excuse my lack of understanding. But isn't the point of putting an egg in the trap so that a coon will get in there and get the egg, but you can leave the egg in there every night until something gets it. No soggy/stale bread or old sardines to worry about getting out. So if i crack an egg in the trap, it's going to make a mess. on my uncle's trap. That i'll have to clean up. Which means more work for me.
 
when I am forced to use a cage trap deerman offer a good way to use a cage trap the critters you catch will" clean" the egg off the trigger most days I use eithe r conibears or coilspring traps
 
And deerman, i hope you don't think that I'm setting poison out with the idea that if somebody's pet eats it, whatever. I've been doing my best to take what precautions are necessary to avoid our pets getting into the stuff. Our goats and sheep are in that pen. So if they get it, it'd be my dad who'd be losing animals. I'm just trying my best to get rid of these dang coons. eating all my birds and i can't afford to replace them.
 
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Yeah. The ruger method isn't for everyone. But now now you know it likes the bread! Good luck tonight, and keep us posted!
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Edit for typo.

a lot of time I either use egg shells crumbled up or golf balls or white feathers "eye appeal" helps a lot when trapping the white light colored bread is adding eye appeal not so much anything the critter "likes"
 
setting the trap tonight in the chicken run. the chicks are safe in the coop, no worries. but the coon can still get in the run. but the goats can't... our goats get in the trap!!!! don't ask me how.. but they do. or at least one does.. so i put it in the run tonight so the goat can't get in there. baited it with white bread and sardines. don't want to risk the chickens seeing eggshell and yolk and getting any ideas.
 

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