Nope. Quiet night.
The immediate issue may be over but I'm not convinced there won't be more this year.
I've got 15 acres of corn growing on one side of me and another 40 acres behind me. That'll bring coons to my side of road.
Well my trapping pro turned out to be some kind of loony tune. Rockets, roller skates and anvils oh my. No thank you freak.
Back on my own so I'm not gonna miss from lack of trying.
Got the foot holds...
Setting one of these dog proof coon traps...
Drug out my old live trap from back when I was...
So ya I set a couple traps at the old trusty entery point and caught a coon that night. He was big and angry but had all his toes so I knew he was just a soldier.
I interrogated him mercilessly for hours but he didn't break. Strobe lights, smacking him around. I even played two full Backstreet...
My main concerns arise when something enters the barn to kill. The first time I had an issue something had dug under the back wall. I've left the hole ever since and things have no problem using it. It makes it easier when I know where they're coming in and out of. I can usually set a couple...
Not to that extent at this time. When I was a kid I wanted a gun and wanted to hunt more then anything. It wasn't gonna happen at that age and when I was 11 or 12 I discovered trapping. I did back then. Boiling and using walnuts.
Trapping was so much fun and a little profitable back then.
Now...
My best blue gold duckwing hen. The blue silver/gold duckwing rooster that was with her.
My only nice pure lavender hen. Then a blue barred rooster. Only Isabel rooster. Best lavender silver duckwing rooster and lavender barred silver/gold duckwing rooster.
So ya all very usuable birds.
So ya predator problem started in the barn over night a couple days ago.
I walked in to find 3 of my more important breeders gone. These were penned birds and it appeared something tried pulling them through the wire door and pulled hard enough to pull the latch screws from the wood. That left...
Stakes cost extra. Barn was already here. Lol
Na I just attach them to a structure or tree or broke down vehicle anything non mobile.
It's real county out here. No pampered predators. Ours are wise and crafty or they don't survive at all.
You can't find a coon foolish enough to live trap. They...
Yes real. Yes leg holds.
Nothing out here falls for live traps except possums and cats.
Duh, baling wire. Secured to a piece of barn framing. I underestimated their ability to untwist it.