Please learn from our mistake - Raccoon Killed our chicken

[Lisa Walker]

We borrowed a couple of humane traps from a friend of mine and have them set tonight, using of our dead chickens that stupid coon killed last night as bait. We've lost 8 chickens in the past three days. That was all the outside ones. Luckily, we hadn't put the silkies out yet. They're going to be indoor chickens, I guess. (They look like fluffy bunnies with two legs anyway.)

 

[Charm1704]

Sorry for your Loss!..~Charm1704

 

[Lisa Walker]

Caught him!!

 

[jonalisa]

I thought the size actually is important because a racoon can reach through anything larger, no?


(I'm actually replying to an earlier post - why doesn't it post directly below the post I am responding to?)

 

[quigley257]

Don't assume it was one animal. Coons seldom work alone.

 

[Lisa Walker]

We've left the traps out for awhile, and have caught a couple of possums, but no more coons. I think this one was a loner. (It was a male.)

 

[samsr]

We've left the traps out for awhile, and have caught a couple of possums, but no more coons. I think this one was a loner. (It was a male.)

I would keep setting the trap. I have caught 3 skunks and two raccoons in three nights. The coons are easy to get rid of. The skunks on the other hand are not that simple.

 

[Lisa Walker]

That's what I worry about, samsr. How on earth would you let the skunks out?

 

[jetdog]

You don't, drop the trap in a barrel of water.Problem solved.

 

[chickortreat]

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