Coons and Chickens... Apparently can co-exist.

[workinnanie]

Wow. Interesting story!

 

[1 hen and 1 roo]

That is just crazy that anyone would trust that many raccoons around their poultry.

My brother caught a baby one time and kept it in a pen and often took it in his house. One day they left the coop open and it left and never came back. Wonder if it found another human home?

You know animals have senses and know when you are afraid or mean them harm. Those people must really love all kinds of animals and want to provide a home for them and supply them with food. I pray that all goes well with them and that the racoons never turn on them.

Where we live there are bears everywhere. People have been known to feed them from their porches. Always see articles in the newspaper about people being hurt by a bear they were feeding when one day they did not put food out for it.

What happens when they die and someone else moves in. Will the racoons move on or attack?

 

[Attack Chicken]

Would be kind of creepy sitting in your chair eating a zebra cake and have all these masked eyes looking at you through the windows. Like the movie "Birds" except with raccoons.

I'd rather buy the Little Debbies for myself.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I'm not sayin' I trust the situation... I'm just sayin.. I stood there and watched 4 raccoons sit 30 feet from the chickens waiting on the little debbies. I couldn't believe it.

 

[ontimeborzoi]

Oh, I have no doubt that you saw what you saw. I join the others though in wondering what happens when the Little Debbies fail to appear for whatever reason....
Peoples lives have an unfortunate tendency to change and next thing ya know, those snack cakes no longer seem important, but the coons won't have gotten the memo. Ruh roh.

 

[aprophet]

http://www.thetelegraph.com/articles/raccoon-51454-baby-petty.html

here is the result of one couple feeding "wildlife"

 

[bakerjw]

My DW's aunt used to feed the raccoons out her back porch. They were very cute and adorable.

Then she got sick and we had a raccoon problem.
IMHO feeding wildlife creates a dependency that can easily become a nuisance.

 

[yinepu]

one of my neighbors was feeding the coons and would let them into his house.. one day early this year he decided he didnt want to be bothered any more so he cut down their tree, no longer let them into his house and stopped feeding them.... we "inherited" them and lost a ton of our free range birds.. so long as he was feeding them they left our birds alone.. just wish he had warned us that he was cutting off their food supply and evicting them.. at least that way we would have been a bit better prepared..


I have to wonder just how much the little debbies to feed 40 raccoons cost in a month...

 

[drumstick diva]

How come I am reading this and picturing the raccoons all lined up like a scene from "Ben." Remember all the rats and the "love song Ben" that MJ sang? Forty raccoons and they tell a few friends and before long you have an endless sea of raccoons. People don't think about where all this is going. I understand coon poop carries some nasty, nasty diseases and they are gonna poo alot. That aside from carrying rabies etc.

No I would not be feeding them period unless I was planning a Raccoon buffet and putting something extra in their handouts so they could all go to raccoon heaven together. There is cute and then there is crazy - you can bet which way I would vote. This does not bode well.

 

[gpwelding1]

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x2 you can bet that when the debbie cakes are gone,poultry will be next in line on the food chain!and with alll the coons described by the OP,its not going to be pretty!