Found baby raccoon in coop!

[bobbi-j]

They're darn cute when they're little - too bad they grow into snarling, growling, hissing, snapping chicken killers.

 

[Tylt33]

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Shoot 'em!

I did:

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with a camera, about 2 inches from them.

Imp- I'm urban, shooting a gun is a no no.

Hands down the best poster in the Predators forum.

 

[MEchickenfarmer33]

T may be cute but u needed to shoot it the one thing this world needs is less coons

 

[ll]

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^ Yes, truth.

with a camera, about 2 inches from them.

 

[ll]

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^ agreed


For some unknown reason the coons have not gone after my rabbit in all these years. He was only behind chicken wire until I joined this site and read the warning posts; then changed his hutch to all hardware cloth.

 

[lindseythefork]

Well, you're going to have to do something with it so you may as well call the wildlife care center. I doubt I would be able to kill something so tiny, either.. the wildlife people may have somewhere for it to go that doesn't involve releasing it back out to get your chickens.

However, you might want to get yourself a trap- where there's one raccoon there's another.

 

[cottagechick]

oops...too many windows open

 

[Gatordog]

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I want to know one thing. What happen to your neighbors????? I heard of protecting your chickens, but offing your neighbors is a little extreme. LOL

 

[omnislash]

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lol Thankfully they moved away a few months ago. They promised to replace the 9 chickens their dogs killed for months. Then just moved away one day without a word. As annoying as it was I'm just glad their dogs are far far away from my birds.