Official Squatch Watchers

[21hens-incharge]

Good morning Bob.

Good morning everyone just waking up.

Should be a beautiful day today.

 

[Molpet]

Good morning it is.

Moment of silence for a poult eater.
I hate doing that but once they figure out there's tasty food in the poultry yard....
20 lb male
So glad it wasn't a nursing mother.
But I am sure there's more.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Bob.

Good morning everyone just waking up.

Should be a beautiful day today.

Good morning it is. Good morning Henny, have a great day

Moment of silence for a poult eater.
I hate doing that but once they figure out there's tasty food in the poultry yard....
20 lb male
So glad it wasn't a nursing mother.
But I am sure there's more.

Good morning Mo, have a great day. Glad you caught him.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Good morning it is.

Moment of silence for a poult eater.
I hate doing that but once they figure out there's tasty food in the poultry yard....
20 lb male
So glad it wasn't a nursing mother.
But I am sure there's more.

The first coon we caught was a nursing mother. I had set three cockerels in pens for slaughter the next day. I use cylinders of 4ft high fencing that are about 2ft in diameter as holding pens for slaughtering, with snow fencing as a top. They are very useful and mobile. Anyway, I usually wrapped a roll of 1 inch hardware cloth around the line of cylinders to keep predators at bay. Well, that night I forgot to do that. Next morning I had one live cockerel, half a dead cockerel, and a pile of feathers where the third was. The dead/missing birds had been pulled through the 2" x 4" mesh of the fencing piece by piece. I took the carcass of the dead bird and baited our hav-a-hart trap with it. Next morning, we had a female with obvious nipples in the trap. But, I don't let any animals that get a taste for chicken or chicken feed to live. And relocating them is just cruel. Later that year, we had a rash of incidents of coons getting into our feed, supplements and plant starts. They also crapped all over my parents' deck. We set the dog-proof traps and caught 9 over the course of 2 weeks. Haven't had a single problem since. We stopped trapping because the neighbors started commenting on the morning gunshots and it wasn't trapping season. We didn't want to get ratted on. I think this coming trapping season we'll thin the population down again. It's been almost 2 years since the last time we trapped coons. We don't want them getting too comfortable.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Rae, have a great day

 

[Parront]

Good morning it is.

Moment of silence for a poult eater.
I hate doing that but once they figure out there's tasty food in the poultry yard....
20 lb male
So glad it wasn't a nursing mother.
But I am sure there's more.

One down. Sadly, where there is one, likely to be some more. Good you got him!

 

[Molpet]

The first coon we caught was a nursing mother. I had set three cockerels in pens for slaughter the next day. I use cylinders of 4ft high fencing that are about 2ft in diameter as holding pens for slaughtering, with snow fencing as a top. They are very useful and mobile. Anyway, I usually wrapped a roll of 1 inch hardware cloth around the line of cylinders to keep predators at bay. Well, that night I forgot to do that. Next morning I had one live cockerel, half a dead cockerel, and a pile of feathers where the third was. The dead/missing birds had been pulled through the 2" x 4" mesh of the fencing piece by piece. I took the carcass of the dead bird and baited our hav-a-hart trap with it. Next morning, we had a female with obvious nipples in the trap. But, I don't let any animals that get a taste for chicken or chicken feed to live. And relocating them is just cruel. Later that year, we had a rash of incidents of coons getting into our feed, supplements and plant starts. They also crapped all over my parents' deck. We set the dog-proof traps and caught 9 over the course of 2 weeks. Haven't had a single problem since. We stopped trapping because the neighbors started commenting on the morning gunshots and it wasn't trapping season. We didn't want to get ratted on. I think this coming trapping season we'll thin the population down again. It's been almost 2 years since the last time we trapped coons. We don't want them getting too comfortable.

2 neighbors , on my road, have had coon issues and hired trappers to get them out of houses. The third neighbor, FEEDs them. I wonder if the feeder is out of town. They have a cabin in Wisconsin. They feed the bears up there... goofball... I was thinking before that maybe why they leave the poultry yard alone is because a pile of corn is more interesting.

A neighbor up another road calls police when she hears shots. She feeds also. Her neighbor invited me to hunt on his property

 

[Parront]

2 neighbors , on my road, have had coon issues and hired trappers to get them out of houses. The third neighbor, FEEDs them. I wonder if the feeder is out of town. They have a cabin in Wisconsin. They feed the bears up there... goofball... I was thinking before that maybe why they leave the poultry yard alone is because a pile of corn is more interesting.

A neighbor up another road calls police when she hears shots. She feeds also. Her neighbor invited me to hunt on his property

I know people around here feed the deer. Probably raccoons like that corn, too. In the city limits here I can not shoot anything. Five javalinas in the yard the other day, ate all the buds off my roses. Roses are usually safe, I guess knocking over the neighbor's garbage cans was not enough. Those neighbors never secure their cans, and leave the mess out for days when they get knocked over. What is wrong with people????

 

[Redhead Rae]

2 neighbors , on my road, have had coon issues and hired trappers to get them out of houses. The third neighbor, FEEDs them. I wonder if the feeder is out of town. They have a cabin in Wisconsin. They feed the bears up there... goofball... I was thinking before that maybe why they leave the poultry yard alone is because a pile of corn is more interesting.

A neighbor up another road calls police when she hears shots. She feeds also. Her neighbor invited me to hunt on his property

Our neighbors feed deer. I don't really have a problem with that. I think anyone who feeds coons or possums is an idiot who deserves to get bit by a rabid one. I HATE coons.

 

[Redhead Rae]

@Molpet Did you get your eggs? The status says the box was delivered 2 hours ago.