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[mochicken]

Still dark but I shined a light out by my two traps and one is set off and moved 8 feet and the other one has something in it, find out what it is when I get a chance before work

 

[sonew123]

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good luck.still too dark out here to check but will on my way to work..Dh will have to dispatch! hehee

 

[mochicken]

Yep just went out to check, another big fat raccoon. I keep resetting the trap in the pen where they killed my silkies and that is the second one I have caught in that trap. The other trap was set last night and they managed to chew the bait can out that I had wired in there yet it didnt set the trap off, weird but at least I got one of them.

 

[sonew123]

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you got another though!!!! thats great I got none We know those two sets of beedie eyes are ours shortly!!!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Whilst your trapping the coons I trust you are also improving your pens?

No matter how many predators you eliminate it's only a matter of time before they are replaced. Improving your predator proofing will in the long run prove more profitable than trying to drain the predator pool.

 

[twentynine]

A.T. Hagan :

Whilst your trapping the coons I trust you are also improving your pens?

No matter how many predators you eliminate it's only a matter of time before they are replaced. Improving your predator proofing will in the long run prove more profitable than trying to drain the predator pool.

Very very very good advice!​

 

[bobbi-j]

A.T. Hagan :

Whilst your trapping the coons I trust you are also improving your pens?

No matter how many predators you eliminate it's only a matter of time before they are replaced. Improving your predator proofing will in the long run prove more profitable than trying to drain the predator pool.

And in some areas, without elimination, they keep breeding and get overpopulated and die of disease and starvation.

Beef up your pens, and keep on trapping!

 

[mochicken]

I have been upgrading my coop door latch systems, they now have 2 padlock type clasps with d-ring pins in them. There was one on each coop door before, the reason my chickens were accessed in the first place was that my wife could not get the latch in place to get the pin in and forgot to tell me when I got home. I have had chickens for 7 months and never list a chicken to a coon and the coons have been around the whole time, now that they have killed chickens I know they will keep going back so that's why I started trapping them now.

 

[twentynine]

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Coons been there all along, and they will be there for as long as you got chickens, and after. You may have already caught the thief or you may never catch him. It's not like he left his fingerprints or DNA.
If your coop was secure before the successful attack, it is secure now. More so now that you have doubled the locks.
The coons are not premeditating an attack on your chickens. Your security failed on that one particular time, the coons didn't plan the attack like a bank
Trust me you can't hardly thin'em out. When you take one out another will shuffle in.

 

[mochicken]

Yeah I will continue to catch as many as I can, I have found a local fur guy that said he will GLADLY take any that I capture in season which starts November 15th. I will probably do that, we help eachother, I will trap them around my coops and he can come dispatch them and take them away, beats dumping them in ditches for no reason.