Best Bait for Raccoons?

[mdees88]

I've heard marshmallows work well but haven't tried them myself. I can 100% guarantee that they can't resist honeybuns. . . But make sure you buy the family pack, you tend to run out of them quick, lol.

 

[Kristine Roegner]

I have caught many raccoons and they especially love rotisserie chicken or leftover pieces of meat

 

[FathertoFeathers]

Marshmallows drizzled with cat food juice has always worked for me.

 

[Rooapalooza]

Lol the best bait for a raccoon is a live chicken. Protect them well!

 

[Angileen]

So about a year ago on a dreary day I watched as a raccoon walked from our front yard along the side to our back yard under our deck. We didn’t see him after that. Fast forward to a few days ago, about 4 days after our fence was installed in our back yard, it was another dreary day and out was our lovely raccoon friend wandering the fence looking very confused. He eventually went under our upper building I’m pretty sure. We set a live cage trap with an apple but no luck. From experience what is the best bait to use?
We are getting chickens most likely this weekend so the faster we can relocate the boogers the better.

I would use cat food, dog food or corn. . I have apple trees and they do not eat the apples. If you live trap and relocate try to relocate by a river, lake or pond with a forest around. And I would go at least 5 miles from where you live.

 

[OneToManyChickens]

Tuna juice is always good to add on the top. Make it stinky.

 

[BarredRockMom]

When you relocate an animal that is a problem or one you think could be a problem, then you're making it someone else's problem...and they didn't ask for it.

Your husband is right: you trap your problem, you shoot your problem. You don't move it into someone else's backyard flock so that they have to shoot it.

If you're not going to shoot it, don't trap it.
There's no gray area here, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Hidrainja4]

So about a year ago on a dreary day I watched as a raccoon walked from our front yard along the side to our back yard under our deck. We didn’t see him after that. Fast forward to a few days ago, about 4 days after our fence was installed in our back yard, it was another dreary day and out was our lovely raccoon friend wandering the fence looking very confused. He eventually went under our upper building I’m pretty sure. We set a live cage trap with an apple but no luck. From experience what is the best bait to use?
We are getting chickens most likely this weekend so the faster we can relocate the boogers the better.

CHICKEN!!!!!!!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

The picture looks so cute!! Until he pulls the heads off your whole flock. Here in Louisiana Raccoons are the most likely animal to carry rabies, so if you are seeing the coon in the day, it maybe really be hungry or could be rabid. Imho, I would get rid of it.

 

[Hidrainja4]

CHICKEN!!!!!!!

Ok now I am being serious. You need a secure coop, that means nothing that can be ripped open. Nothing that they can reach through, Nothing that they can dig under. For your porch take rags tie twine to one end soak with ammonia tie around the deck very six feet. I used it so Mr skunk would not travel under my deck it works. Last most of the season. Put your chickens away before it gets dark. Let them out when the sun is truly up. Now you can supply them with cover so the hawks don't get them.