Fed up to HERE!!!

[TheTwoRoos]

How far have you relocated

 

[Melly-Mae]

How far have you relocated

We took her approximately 5 miles.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

We took her approximately 5 miles.

What makes you think that relocating a nursing raccoon will not beat you back from a mire 5 miles distance.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

A nursing mother means you've got a bigger gang coming soon. Personally I see it as more important to shoot females rather than males, if you're going to have a gender bias.

 

[centrarchid]

Simple hot wire may be more cost effective than electrified poultry netting. I use both and each has advantages for some applications. To prevent raccoons from eating toes and chewing through chicken wire I have birds in pens roost on over turned milk crates that are well away from pen walls, more than 12".

Look at this as a system of layers. I feel bad about killing critters willy nilly to protect flock when other more effective measures are available.

 

[mowin]

Simple hot wire may be more cost effective than electrified poultry netting. I use both and each has advantages for some applications. To prevent raccoons from eating toes and chewing through chicken wire I have birds in pens roost on over turned milk crates that are well away from pen walls, more than 12".

Look at this as a system of layers. I feel bad about killing critters willy nilly to protect flock when other more effective measures are available.

I hardly think trapping and shooting coons/predators that are killing chickens far from " Willy nilly" killing them.

 

[centrarchid]

It is if that done preferentially to denying access.

 

[centrarchid]

I will kill as well and done it many times. Experience teaches prevent first. Kill next.

 

[mowin]

We're going to have to agree to disagree on this topic.

Every coon, woodchuck, possum, fox or coyote I see in my yard is asking for a dirt nap. I've shot coyotes in the middle of the day within 50' of the house. Not about to fence in 2 acres.

 

[centrarchid]

We're going to have to agree to disagree on this topic.

Every coon, woodchuck, possum, fox or coyote I see in my yard is asking for a dirt nap. I've shot coyotes in the middle of the day within 50' of the house. Not about to fence in 2 acres.

Not about you, about op.