Put a honey bun in the trap and you'll definitely catch your coon. They love honey buns or anything sweet. And yes, please shoot it if you're going to get rid of it. Drowning it would be horrible!
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Thanks for the update! Hope they recover well and you are sporting a coonskin cap soon.Thanks for all the ideas about disposing of my predator.
We baited the trap with the leftover rotissure chicken my family now will not eat. The trap was tripped and most of the chicken gone. Second night we had left the trap closed and not emptied the leftover bait out and something rolled the whole trap around in an unsuccessful attempt to get at the bait. Will try again tonight. My husband plans to use a .22 on the predator. We know he will return if he is not relocated a great distance, and even then I may be dropping another predator with a taste for chicken near somebody else's coops. Hubby is also leery of opening the trap to let it go. We may have to sit up and peg it one night as it goes for the bait as gatorshark 75 says.
Injury update: Violet Blaze (the chicken with the skinned back) is apparently her normal self. She is out to pasture with the other healthy chicken and we couldn't catch her for a wound check this am.
Nugget is the neck injury I had posted. More active today. Eating mashed layer pellets with water and corn syrup on her own, drinking water out of a dish on her own. She is still in the coop alone during the day and plan to keep her in the carrier at night. No signs of wound infection.
hey! You are just up the road! Welcome!I'm in Micanopy! We haven't gotten our flock yet, due to the lack of a coop, but we are getting ready for them!
So true!!Chickens ave very addictive...
I'm in Micanopy! We haven't gotten our flock yet, due to the lack of a coop, but we are getting ready for them!
Agreed! I am even worried about the safety of the coop until we get rid of this one. Heard a neighbor lost a flock of 9 last year to a coon.Thanks for the update! Hope they recover well and you are sporting a coonskin cap soon.