Dispatched momma coon and three kits, but feeling bad about it.

[KimberlyJ]

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I agree.... But please be a responsible gun owner. Learn to use it. Keep it clean. AND FOR GOD SAKES KEEP IT LOCKED UP!

I think you should be a bit proud of yourself. You did what had to be done. Now you just need to add a little finesse to the act! And just remember it will never be your first time ever again! I hope it never gets easy for you-just less tramatic!

 

[noodleroo]

You did what you had to do. If you were my neighbor and a coon + family was after my chickens, I would want you to do for me what you did for yourself. You saved your chickens from pain and or death; you did the right thing. I'm glad that you care and the price we pay for caring is feeling sadness sometimes.

But I'd choose you for my neighbor any day....

 

[paridisefarm2009]

Ya did Good !!
I never thaught in a million years I would shoot a .22 But Yes I have , and I Think I am planning on learning More Like a hand Gun , < But Not to sure , My husband is all licenced to carry , I just do back yard shooting the coons and opossoms I have caught in the trap , SO don't feel bad You would feel worse if they got your flock , I have so so so Many losses in the past year so You go girl : )

 

[Chick-N-Antics]

I want to thank everyone who posted with positive support. I know that this may be something that I will continue to deal with as many of us are and I will certainly take into consideration all the suggestions that were mentioned in making those adjustments necessary to keeping my girls safe and secure. (I actually don't care for guns and prefer my 'shooting' with a recurve bow and target points on my arrows) But, nothing is perfect and no guarentees can be made just the extra effort to deter those predators that do come around. Even out here in the sticks I have other neighbors that have lost almost all of their flock, it could just as easily have been mine.

I have asked myself would I be greatful if someone else had done that shooting and the answer is a resounding yes. I take no delight in what I've done and in the end it was the ony thing I could do. I did shed a tear but only after reading everyone's posts and only because you guys are so great and so supportive.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart!

 

[tcltoughmom]

A coon has gotten 3 more of my chickens while I was gone to Ga to see my 9 month pregnant daughter, came home 3 dead and seen the coon last night but did not get a shot, but gun is loaded and by the window waiting ------and daughter ( age 30) is on way to hospital to have 1st baby and I am back in WV-------Can't wait to shhot this coon- I paid too much for some of them and then all I have invested---------Teresa

 

[Turkeyrun]

We lost our chickens to mostly to raccoons judging from who I have seen in the coop and traps, though there was one opossum. You did the right thing. Strangely I feel bad about disposing of raccoons even after I have found them with our chickens, after all they were just being raccoons. . . . oh well.

Good that you got the family. Keep an eye out for the last one. Our experience has been that were there is one there are LOTS!

 

[Tylt33]

Let's keep in mind that all opinions and views are subjective. On a board with thousands of members there is likely to be a normal distribution of opinions across the spectrum on any given topic.

 

[tcltoughmom]

Hey u guys- got one big coon last night, it was getting in the eggs I left in front of the coop and I shot him. I hope he was the one eating my chickens and leaving the corpse hanging thru the fence wire. If not I will keep a watch out and see.

 

[Chick-N-Antics]

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I hope so too, its so much better not to have to deal with it than have to but such is life...best of luck to you.

 

[haTHOR]

were you able to figure out how the coon was getting in to your coop?