Coons!

[Blisschick]

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It's all over the Internet.

 

[turkey guru]

looks like jenny it is, sorry dude! tom111

 

[ziggywiggy]

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Turkey Guru I like the H... of your posts but, are you sure you're not exagerating just a little? Pulled the hen through the wire like a french fry cutter? Hummm...now that's hard to imagine.

 

[archerobx]

So when we going coon hunting, lol.

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

 

[poultryfan73]

Id be more then happy to go coon hunting!!! I go every winter with my friend with flashlights and sometimes with my friends dog! We have lots of success!!

 

[pdpatch]

Predators are basically lazy. They will take the easiest prey first, so if there is not enough easy food for them, your poultry will became a target. Not only a raccoon but many other predators, can tare through chicken wire very easily if they want to but most won't unless it s easier for them to do that, then grab some other food.

So even if you live near wild areas you may never have a problem, or you might, it depends on the circumstances of the moment which is nearly impossible to predict accurately 100% of the time. The same can be said if you live in a town or city.

You can take two main approaches, do nothing until you loose a bird, which may never happen for most people. Or build some defenses to keep predators at bay.

Large dogs help keep all sorts of predators away from your poultry just by there presences. (Her name is sissy girls because she gets spooked easily and barks)
Use welded wire for any outside enclosure or runs. ( We don't except for the turkey run)
Put your poultry in coops at night. (we try for the Chickens but sometime some slip through and spend the night out)

Tom

 

[Dust Bunny]

haha its 0210 and i just put my dogs out to get my monsters! Angus said woof and that's good enough for me! i have NO idea whats out there but i trust its up to no good! soooo out go the dogs

i have heard something screaming out there about this time of night (i work the graveyard shift) i don't know what it was but it scared the fudge outa me! gave me goosebumps and everything! if i lived in mexico i would say it was the chupracbra, if new jersey i would say the jersey devil, Ogden Utah i would say the IRS but here in the northwest i guess Bigfoot? who knows? at the end of the day dead is dead, i don't care who killed what, i lock up my birds, cuz i cry when the monsters get um

 

[bee_wrangler]

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I agree, had a bobcat take my big drake a couple weeks ago

 

[turkey guru]

ok french fry cutter,the coon pulls big hand fulls of meat and feathers threw the wire and it cuts it! I have seen coons open rabbit pens kill the babbies and eat them, kill kittens, pups,all kinds of birds snag my fish out of the pond, seen them strip a apple tree over night,destroy the grape vineyard! seen them whip a dam tough dog and send him to the vet! hell if I see in my truck I will jump the curd to get a crack at killing one!!!!!!!!!! tom