How do you get rid or Opssums & Racoons ???

[andalusn]

Are you urban or rural? If there is wildlife that is becoming more nuisance than wild, at least here were I am in a rural setting you can contact fish and game and they will set you up with traps and they remove them when occupied.

 

[chickortreat]

I agree that relocation merely puts the problem off on someone else. I use a .22 or .22 magnum as a treatment, then take them out of the yard so's the buzzards can dine without my bothering them.

 

[chickened]

I posted something similar in another post about relocating. I relocate their brain with the help of Remington model 870.

 

[bobbi-j]

Trap & shoot are your best option. Around here, the only thing fish and game would do is encourage us to do exactly that. They have more to worry about than an overpopulation of coons and possums.

 

[BlackBart]

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Be sure to check laws. In most US states this is illegal.

I don't live in the US.
Where I relocate them is 100 or so miles from any civilization. They have a chance to survive if they are smarter than the cougars.

 

[cafarmgirl]

IMO the easiest long term solution is to make your coop predator proof. No sitting up with the gun waiting for critter's to show up, no having to deal with traps etc. I've kept chickens for years and never once have I trapped, shot, or otherwise killed a coon, possum or skunk. And I've never lost a bird. The critter's can't get into my coop, there's no other food available here so they keep going. And since they can't get in I couldn't care less if they pass by in the night.

You can never trap or kill all of the predators, there's always more, so eventually another one will show up and get in to kill your birds when your asleep or the traps are not set or whatever. A little hardware cloth and even a few strands of hot wire, which is what I do, take care of the problem.

 

[zazouse]

Sorry for your loss.
I use dogs here and they work out great for me.

 

[PDurkin]

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Got to agree with Zazouse on this one. PS those are some great photos.

 

[WillieBoy]

What TheFox said...x2
if your chickens are not secured at night, expect continued losses...Secured means a predator proof coop to roost in, not even a 1/2 in hole, in which a weasel can do its dirty deeds..! Your wasting your time relocating Mr.Coon, he will travel long distances to get back home..

 

[patman75]

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X2

LGD works well too.