Guess Which Predator Am I

[CapricornFarm]

Best get some welded wire, stray dogs rip through chicken wire in seconds .

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Coon is the colloquialism for Raccoon.


Weird I didn't see it first time I looked... I must be blind or it wasn't there! LOL! Voted!

 

[TheChickenCameFirst]

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Oh My!

I thought a raccoon would do much more damage than what I've been seeing but, I guess the window will get closed tonight.. I have a littler of kittens up there that will need to be moved down as it gets brutal up there. ... by the way, my dyslexia kicked in for a minute and I was wondering why anyone would pick "diarrhea" as their username

We lived on an old farm when I was growing up, and coons can certainly get in second story windows. It sounds like this one is killing for food, not for sport which is why you may not have too bad of a mess. I would protect your kittens because they WILL take them! My mother had kittens and lost several to a nasty coon.

 

[MEchickenfarmer33]

coon

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Hmmmmm...... Sounds like Pygmies!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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[CACP51]

I say it is a skunk --- and you don't have that on the list.

 

[dainerra]

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[mkcolls]

The carnage sounds like a raccoon. We have lost 5 turkeys over the past week. Every day we add higher walls, more reinforcement in the walls and have add traps up to 3 for tonight. Hubby even spent most of last night in the barn.

Barn is over 100 yrs old, 3 story at the peak and the raccoons had to scale walls over 15 ft.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[dainerra]

I've always heard that raccoons can climb anything except glass and unweathered (new) sheet metal (once it oxidizes it has more texture I guess).

I've heard conflicting stories on whether or not they can jump. I've found a few people who say "no" but others say they can jump about 4ft up.
Not to mention their ability to open door knobs, latches, and various other locks