Dead raccoon stuck in the worst place! (pic)

[Sillystunt]

won't it get stiff??? Pull it by it's tail or just hit the sucker on his head until he pops out...lol

Kinda sad though~

 

[Wolf-Kim]

If you can't simply force him out, you may have to dismember him. If he is truly dead, he won't make a big bloody mess. Dead things don't bleed, it's a beating heart that makes a mess.

Cutting him in two or three will make less of a mess than him decaying there. How is he wedged?

Not to sound gross, but you SHOULD be able to just force him out by pulling. If he got in there alive, you WILL be able to get him out dead. He's dead, not alive. Break and dislocate limbs if you need to, he won't mind. If you don't want to get hands on with it, get a long rope, put a noose in it and then tie it to a tractor or vehicle and pull it out. As long as the rope is well placed and a tightening noose, it is going to come out, whole or in peaces.

-Kim

 

[Country4ever]

I wonder if you left it, it might be a good sign to any others. I know that doesn't deal with the smell and yuk.......but that would eventually stop.

Can you get some turkey vultures to help you out??

 

[Wolf-Kim]

DO NOT LEAVE IT THERE TO ROT!

It WILL attract scavengers and predators looking for an easy meal. And any poultry owners you don't need scavengers or predators hanging around looking for an easy meal.

I use to hang maggot buckets, which is a 5 gallon bucket with holes and you fill with rotting meat. It was a good way to create protein for my birds, since the maggots would instinctively burrow and fall out of the bucket through the holes and into the beaks of waiting chickens. Well, the buckets were working well, EXCEPT I had the WORST fox attack and several other visits while the buckets were at the peak of their "ripeness". I lost 20+ adolescent birds in a single night. The fox burrowed into the run, attracted by the smell of rotting meat and since the bucket was out of reach he opted for a fresher course.

-Kim

 

[allison finch]

It looks like you have good access to the head inside the barn. I would put gloves on (remember...rabies vector) put a rope around the head and pull it out that direction. Pulling hind legs will only pull hind legs off if the shoulders and head are too big to go out that way.

 

[annek]

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Wouldn't that be cute if you came out later and the rooster was wearing a coon skin cap!!

 

[Country4ever]

LOL Anne!

 

[chicks4kids]

Just whack him in half--gross--but it'll work. Hopefully next time you can get him out before he gets hard.

 

[hencackle]

Get him out before he starts to bloat with gases from the putrefaction process, you don't want that stink on you as you try to pull the body out.

A former boss went bear hunting, tucked the body in the trunk of his car and brought it back to the warehouse to gut. When he plunged his knife into the belly, stuff spewed out all over him.

Guess he didn't think about the gas buildup in the body after sitting in a hot car trunk.

 

[twentynine]

Reach on up there and yank that sucker loose. It's not like you are gonna hurt him.