coon sizes and relocation - *graphic pics page 3*

Thanks i'm sad i should just "dispose" of it i'm not big on killing any animals.
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I prefer not to kill local wildlife as well. The best solution to that is 1.not leave any food available at night. 2. Keep your poultry in a safe pen at night, by safe, I mean Fort Knox. Where I live we have weasels, although I have never seen one, I lost several cats one year to them. Weasels are capable of getting through a 1" hole. Build for weasels and you are safe from coons,ect. 3. Don't use "chicken" wire for anything,except maybe the top of a run. Its not strong enough to keep predators out. Once your local coons satisfy themselves that they can't access your poultry, they will still check just to make sure you didn't forget to shut them in, but they won't waste much time beating a dead horse. It also helps if you make the bottom couple of feet of your run solid, so predators can't see the chickens. Then sit back and enjoy the nighttime wildlife as well as your chickens.
 
DB123, I couldn't agree more. For all those catch and release people go to PBS.ORG
and find the Nova Science Now about raccoons urban and rural. After seeing their
habits and patterns they'll change their minds. If after seeing that documentary they
still want let them go, bring them to the dump zero chance they'll leave voluntarily as
unlimited food !! RR
 
First off, since coons live in colonies, trapping and relocating an individual coon is not going to accomplish much. There are plenty more coons in the colony to take the place of the one(s) you just relocated. Also because coons live in colonies if you relocate one coon you force it to either fight and maybe kill coons in other colonies to either carve out a new home for its self or else force a passageway back home.

The only alternative the coon you relocate has is a slow and painful death from starvation.

I have yet to see a single raccoon that had a green eye shade on its head or one who possessed any of the other tools of a bean counter. When you manage or control the whole colony you have only reduced the number of coons that the natural environment is forced to support. The surrounding population of raccoons don't go on an Oklahoma Sooners' style land rush to lay claim to the newly unoccupied territory, you have only reduced the pressure that the local coons put on the food resources in your area. If the pressure the coons put on their range is reduced it reduces the pressure the coon population puts on your chickens. An out of balance animal population is an unhealthy population and the only ethical human response is to manage that population in the least intrusive but most effective way to bring the population back within the carrying capacity of the environment.

Coons are wild animals and like all wild animals coons display neither entrepreneurial nor rent seeking behaviors. Coons or any other predator only respond to outside environmental stimuli. They kill your chickens because your poultry are either the easiest, the first, or the only prey in sight. The coons in suburbia are more than likely killing your chickens because the coons other "natural" food sources (like leftover or left-out dog and cat food) is in short supply. When that happens the raccoons quickly begin to view your baby chicks like they are frogs in a fur coat.
 
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This what I woke up to this morning in my front yard. Head pulled thru the cage. Havent had a coon loss in a year. I post something about it last night and wham. He came back tonight at dark. He wont be back again.
 
This what I woke up to this morning in my front yard. Head pulled thru the cage. Havent had a coon loss in a year. I post something about it last night and wham. He came back tonight at dark. He wont be back again.
That looks like it has feathers, it is one of your chickens? And you killed the coon?
 
That is a scalped Marans rooster. This is the coon. I apologize if I offend anyone. But I want people to realize that raccoons can be terrible predators. Ive had them kill every chicken in the cage. Eating only thier heads. Ive relocated them in the past to only have them come back and kill more. My area is actually overpopulated as alot of the ones I catch are underweight.
 
Don't be sorry. This is the predator/pest forum. Anyone on these forums who is offended by the sight of a dead coon only needs to watch this...
 
That is a scalped Marans rooster. This is the coon. I apologize if I offend anyone. But I want people to realize that raccoons can be terrible predators. Ive had them kill every chicken in the cage. Eating only thier heads. Ive relocated them in the past to only have them come back and kill more. My area is actually overpopulated as alot of the ones I catch are underweight.
Ah no, no problem. This is just a part of keeping chickens. I'm glad you got him! Sorry about your rooster. :(
 

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