Got one... dead predator pic

[carlf]

No the duke raccoon traps only work on coons. For coyotes you need snares, footholds or a gun.

 

[Millworker26]

No the duke raccoon traps only work on coons. For coyotes you need snares, footholds or a gun

I've caught possum too with the Dukes.

 

[carlf]

I kinda thought possums would be the only other critter that would reach inside one.

 

[laura s]

This is the egg eater we finally caught. Here in south Florida the tegus are becoming a real pest.

 

[duluthralphie]

Interesting, the response to the OP getting his predator.

Traps like this are indiscriminate killers of anything that sticks it's head where it does not belong. If it is the neighbors dog and it has become a regular problem, it would not bother me. I have a "neighbors" dog that keeps coming here. The last time he killed 4 turkey poults and 2 chicks.

The next time I see it here it would die. I would have no problem seeing it in the conabear. When I set traps, even leg hold ones I keep my dogs indoors. My neighbors all know I will protect my birds however I can, including traps. If they ignore this fact and continue to let their dog out, thinking it is immune to traps, that is on them not me.

As far as they will know their dog just ran away one night.

 

[microchick]

You can avoid a Raccoon reaching into your live trap and stealing your bait by simply covering the back half of it with an old rug or durable tarp. I do that every time I set my live trap. The animal at the most thinks it is going into a cave in order to get the bait that it cannot reach through the wire sides, back, or top. It increases your capture rate significantly.

 

[uncredibless33]

After losing a duck to some raccoons, we started using traps in our yard. I use catch and release cage traps for protecting my flock. The critters that would kill the birds come out at night while they're are locked up in their coop, and we catch them and release them the next day in a place where they won't bother anyone. The only thing we've gotten as of now is young possum. Nasty litter bugger, but kinda cute too.

For a bigger property, I can certainly see using some of the other traps y'all use. My cage traps work on the small scale I'm at now, but with some of the places you folks live I see the killing traps being more effective to take care of nuisances.

 

[Flock In Texas]

A friend of mine has caught 8 possums in the last 3 months. I have coyotes in the pasture behind my back fence every night. Pork Chop will keep them out of the yard. He's a pitbull/dalmatian mix. Since I moved here, 13 years ago, I have seen coyotes, skunks, possum, raccoons, rat snakes, rats, armadillos, hawks, and a bobcat. My boxers ran the bobcat off. I sure miss them.

 

[duluthralphie]

After losing a duck to some raccoons, we started using traps in our yard. I use catch and release cage traps for protecting my flock. The critters that would kill the birds come out at night while they're are locked up in their coop, and we catch them and release them the next day in a place where they won't bother anyone. The only thing we've gotten as of now is young possum. Nasty litter bugger, but kinda cute too.

For a bigger property, I can certainly see using some of the other traps y'all use. My cage traps work on the small scale I'm at now, but with some of the places you folks live I see the killing traps being more effective to take care of nuisances.

Releasing a critter from a live trap is just moving the problem to someone else. A chicken eating critter has never gotten out of my live trap alive. Live traps are just safer for my animals. I have released my chickens more times than anything else from the live traps. They never learn.


Chicken eaters seem to die in the trap every time. There is NO WHERE you can move a critter and be assured it will not become someone else's problem.

 

[microchick]

A friend of mine has caught 8 possums in the last 3 months. I have coyotes in the pasture behind my back fence every night. Pork Chop will keep them out of the yard. He's a pitbull/dalmatian mix. Since I moved here, 13 years ago, I have seen coyotes, skunks, possum, raccoons, rat snakes, rats, armadillos, hawks, and a bobcat. My boxers ran the bobcat off. I sure miss them.

Wanted to let you know. Coyotes around us have been known to bait dogs. A female in heat or a young yote will lure the dog away from it's territory or yard where the rest of the pack is waiting to ambush it. Coyotes will kill a dog that is small enough not to be a threat to them. A pit mix might be an equal match depending on how many coyotes are around. Still, we are very careful with our dogs being out at night, especially in Feb-early March when the yotes are breeding.

Our vet told us one day to watch our dogs where raccoons are concerned. A pursued coon will swim out into a pond and lure a dog in to the water where it will crawl onto its head and submerge it, effectively drowning the Dog. A dog owner saw it happen to his own pet.

Our best defense to date is a hot wire around our coop and run area. Right now we are only running one wire, but by winter I plan to have a second up and running, either slightly higher than the low wire that we already have up or around the top of the run. I haven't decided which would be of more benefit.

I have to agree. Please don't release captured predators. Wild animals released into another animal's territory are just going to wander around until they find their own stomping grounds where they will become somebody else's predator problem. I am an animal lover myself and hate to do it but I shoot any predator that we trap in our live trap with a well placed .223 round. Around us, there are way too many farms that don't need any more predators roaming around and the Amish men once a year usually in January, get together to do a predator drive before lambing/calving season comes around. I figure they are doing us all a big benefit.

Also concerning coyotes. The more rabbits you have around you on your property, the more chances are that you will have a yote problem over the winter. They go where the food is.

Easy solution. Eat more of those Wascelly Wabbits!