I hate coons, UPDATE #52 got'em!

[LilbitChicken]

How terrible!

I am so sorry.

Take care of your hurt babies.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Well???? Was there one in the trap this morning???

Has it had it's trial yet? What's the sentence?

 

[flopshot]

sorry about your birds. i know it sucks but if you could post a photo of how "not to build" it might help others avoid a disaster. be carefull dispatching the critters.

 

[lovemychix]

Sorry for your loss. Hope you get the problem solved.

 

[joebryant]

When I read posts like this, it scares the heeby jeebies out of me. My flock spends the days in the woods/yard in a fenced area that a roaming coon could invade easily during the day. I can't leave them in the safe run though; they'd hate that. Reading your post makes me realize how lucky I've been so far. I know you have to feel devastated, and I hope you're feeling better soon. Nobody should have to see the sight that you did.

 

[AHappychick]

Quote:
neither am I

 

[AHappychick]

coon triggered the trap but managed to keep from getting caught

tonight I will set it differently

I will take a pic of my pen later, but my harware cloth ran a foot along the bottom and about 24 inches from the bottom up. no it will be 4 feet from the bottom up.

have so much work to do today and no offee so I am off to a slow start.

 

[Big Chicken Little]

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[enola]

if the coon tripped the trap you probably need a bigger trap.

 

[AHappychick]

NY has very specific laws to relocation, in my area you have to hire someone who has been told where they can release (that particular year) and it costs a fortune, I relocated 5 coons last year and I cost me $450!!!! Never again, now it is an eye for an eye I understand my feelings may not be agreed by all but I am not spending the gas and time to drive each one over an hour away (each direction) and I am not hiring that guy again to do it for me. I will kill what I can catch and then do all I can to keep them from taking my lively hood. I will put in new electric fencing and anything else that is needed. But I am going to treat them with the same instinctual reaction they treated my ducks with.