2019 Spring Ducklings are here!

[Loopeend]

That dang coon is not afraid of us at all! It was back on my work platform again, i saw it on the camera, slipped out of the door, it looked at me as if it was saying »duck you« and slowly walked away…
I am speechless!

heeey hoo heeey hooo napolitiy papily pooplily fake Italian speakin. Duck you is not allowd you have to say poop you. What do you think all my 'poops' meant besides having an irregular bowel syndrome?

Due to this forum I learned that some 'cheeky' predators aks for it themselves. I don't have none. I have 40 stray cats roaming. But only 1 is a poopy that asks to be shot. Sorry but not sorry 39 other cats behaved.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

That dang coon is not afraid of us at all! It was back on my work platform again, i saw it on the camera, slipped out of the door, it looked at me as if it was saying »duck you« and slowly walked away…
I am speechless!

Sorry to tell you,but it may not be the same one. If you have one raccoon you have dozens. I caught one every couple of days for a while, then dispatched some. They just keep coming. The only thing I found effective is secure housing. this is the only predator that I have not had daytime problems with. They still come and have climbed the stall looking for a way in when I put the new ducklings out. No one has gotten in since I fortified after I realized I could neither trap nor shoot my way out. Is your wife a citizen? Could she buy the gun for you?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh gosh @WannaBeHillBilly that is terrible so sorry . I thought you had the coop good and predator proof now or were they outside still?

Its the truth if you have one coon you have many. And this time of year they will begin to need to feed kits.
Only thing that helped us here is a rabies epidemic about 10 yrs ago It did a good job of wiping out a good portion of the population. But they are making a come back. So if you catch one in your trap do not handle it with out gloves just in case they are big carriers of rabies. Foxes and coyotes too.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Oh gosh @WannaBeHillBilly that is terrible so sorry . I thought you had the coop good and predator proof now or were they outside still?

Its the truth if you have one coon you have many. And this time of year they will begin to need to feed kits.
Only thing that helped us here is a rabies epidemic about 10 yrs ago It did a good job of wiping out a good portion of the population. But they are making a come back. So if you catch one in your trap do not handle it with out gloves just in case they are big carriers of rabies. Foxes and coyotes too.

This is excellent advice. Rabies is nothing to mess around with as it is certain death if you don't get prophylactic treatment. If you are ever bitten or scratched, you must have the animal tested immediately. If you can't have the animal tested, get the shots. The only exemption from this rule that I know is opossum. They can not get rabies.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Nothing scarier than to look out your window and seeing a rabid raccoon walking up your driveway screaming. My dh took care of that one. Then had another encounter with one also .. I don't take a hike or walk without a gun. Eastern NC just had a bear with rabies.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Guess what: They won't sell me a real gun here, i asked @ Rural King, Cabelas and Dick's and they all told me that it is too much paperwork for them 'cause i am "just" a permanent resident and not a citizen.
I realized that pellet guns can be obtained without a license and i thought about buying a fully automatic pellet machine gun. Would something like that teach a 'coon or a fox a lesson?

Try a pawn shops. Ask one of your neighbors if they have a gun to sell. Also, is your wife a citizen? If so have her go buy a gun! I don't think a pellet gun will do anything but make them mad unless you hit it in the eye just right.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Nothing scarier than to look out your window and seeing a rabid raccoon walking up your driveway screaming. My dh took care of that one. Then had another encounter with one also .. I don't take a hike or walk without a gun. Eastern NC just had a bear with rabies.

I would imagine that West Virginia would be about the same?

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Nothing scarier than to look out your window and seeing a rabid raccoon walking up your driveway screaming. My dh took care of that one. Then had another encounter with one also .. I don't take a hike or walk without a gun. Eastern NC just had a bear with rabies.

Oh my goodness! I've had someone bring a horse to me to breed and they had rabies. How did those people not know?? I've seen raccoons, dogs, squirrels (actually tried to attack my dogs on our walk!) and much more with rabies! Poor animals

 

[FluffTheDuck]

I would imagine that West Virginia would be about the same?

And Texas! Except I don't think they have bears there.. Maybe they do?

 

[quackiemama]

Here in "roller-coaster weather alley" we enjoy sunny mid 50's after long periods in the 20's or 30's! Last year at this time i had to repair the roof of my old house in Houston and got sun-burned! A couple of days later when i drove back to West-Virginia i experienced snow in Tennessee and Virginia…

Yep same here. I have to go to Dallas for the week and I hope I don't come back home to more snow!