Help!! Coon problem!

[archeryrob]

I doubt it, it's really specific to raccoons as they can figure out how to get the lure or kibble food and other animals can't and don't have the hands to do it.

Leg hold traps are for everything else and you need a loop pole to release animals you don't want to kill, because you will catch other stuff. They are the best traps for foxes as they avoid the box traps a lot.

 

[Bookmole353]

I doubt it, it's really specific to raccoons as they can figure out how to get the lure or kibble food and other animals can't and don't have the hands to do it.

Leg hold traps are for everything else and you need a loop pole to release animals you don't want to kill, because you will catch other stuff. They are the best traps for foxes as they avoid the box traps a lot.

This is what I found on amazon, is it the right one?

 

[archeryrob]

That is them.

 

[cmom]

I had a coon issue and put ex-lax in a bucket. The coon took the ex-lax and never came back. I don't know if it was a fluke or why the coon didn't come back. This was years ago before I put the electric wire up around my coops and pens. If you run it high enough they have to touch the wire. This is an older picture and we have since added another coop but the same wires are around it too. I have seen coons on my game cameras but they haven't bothered the birds. I also have heavy duty netting covering the pens.

 

[Bookmole353]

I am still going to put up the wire, especially since this thing is breaking my chicken fencing. I have started putting up a chicken wire fencing top over the chickens since I do also have hawks around here. But anything to make my hens feel safe enough to lay again.

 

[archeryrob]

We have chicken wire over top and the high sides and 2x4 wire 48" up the bottom and 24" of 2x4 wire as apron. My wife watched a redtail hawk try and dive on a chicken and bounce off that chicken wire. So it will stop them.

 

[cmom]

I have netting covering my pens. I have had no issues with aerial predators until recently. I din't have quite enough netting so I bought more. It wasn't what I thought it was. The ad was deceiving. An owl discovered it could break through the crappy netting. I should have returned it but put it up anyway thinking it would still probably deter the predators, wrong... The owl went right through it and killed a bird. I replaced it with more of the crappy netting and again it went through the netting and killed another bird. I moved the birds and put another piece of the crappy netting up and put a camera in the pen.

It tried another time the night before last. It tried to get into the pen I had moved the birds into but got a surprise because I had good heavy duty netting covering that pen and it didn't make it through. It did get tangled in the net. Hubby and I got it into this cage and some wildlife people came and got it.

 

[Fragger]

I had similar issue , went to harbor freight bought a motion detector and set the detector where i suspected them to be with a clear shot from upstairs added corn to slow them down . set up my scope Ruger Air Hawk pellet rifle and first night i laid two two to rest.