Baby raccoons no momma seen

[my spoiled chickens]

BE VERY CAREFUL Racoons can often have rabies

 

[Animalfisherwoman]

They have moved on down the way, but my brother is getting a live trap for us and if we hear of them moving back towards us, ill set it up and relocate them.
Thanks for the reply

See, that’s what our county says to do, relocate them. Unless you live next to a national park you’re just making them someone else’s problem. If you have a big dog that will probably scare the family away forever.

 

[Folly's place]

In Michigan it's legal to relocate them on the same property, or on private land within the same county, with landowner permission. Nowhere else!
Rules vary, so check first where you live.
Here raccoons can have canine distemper and rabies, neither good.
Mary

 

[Animalfisherwoman]

I wouldn’t relocate raccoons any more than I’d dump rats on someone else’s property. If you get them, it is best for everyone to dispatch them humanely before they grow up to kill chickens and spread diseases, like Baylis the brain worm, that they spread via droppings. Yeah it seems heartless but the damage they’ll do is worse. A .22 pellet from an air rifle at point blank is safe, legal, and easy to fire.

 

[Folly's place]

Yeah, I forgot about that miserable roundworm! Another reason to not inflict them on anyone else.
Mary

 

[Clucking Caper]

Check your local laws before relocating. My state doesn't allow this unless it's on my own property.

See, that’s what our county says to do, relocate them. Unless you live next to a national park you’re just making them someone else’s problem. If you have a big dog that will probably scare the family away forever.

See those baby raccoon's in the pic. They are just a hair smaller than my terrier. and i'm pretty sure my terrier would play with them and then invite them in to share her kibble lol

 

[Clucking Caper]

I wouldn’t relocate raccoons any more than I’d dump rats on someone else’s property. If you get them, it is best for everyone to dispatch them humanely before they grow up to kill chickens and spread diseases, like Baylis the brain worm, that they spread via droppings. Yeah it seems heartless but the damage they’ll do is worse. A .22 pellet from an air rifle at point blank is safe, legal, and easy to fire.

we live on an island with a large area of woodland, we can take them out on a logging road and they would see a residence ever again.or at least their would be a slim chance that they would.

 

[TexasBlues]

There is nothing wrong with relocation as long as you follow your state laws.
Fear mongering about potential parasites isn't a good excuse to kill them.

 

[McChooky]

that's my wife's "omg they are adorable" face. im trying to explain how destructive and deadly they are and can be to chickens.

meanwhile im trying to speed up the shopping process to rush home lol

needless to say they were no where to be seen once we got home.

but i was proud that our daughter was able to think clearly enough to put the dog away in the house and run to check on the chickens because she said she didn't see a mother and thought she may have been around the coop.

We'd just sold our farm and was living in the city when a momma coon and dad brought their babies to steal some dry catfood at our house.Never saw the first one at the farm lol!

 

[BackroadGirl57]

There is nothing wrong with relocation as long as you follow your state laws.
Fear mongering about potential parasites isn't a good excuse to kill them.

Precisely. There's about 10 of the little buggers on my place - two mamas and their babies. As soon as the babies are old enough, I'll be relocating them to the national park just down the road from me. I don't like to kill unless necessary.