Predator War Is ON!

[Presidential]

I use a live trap with a little peanut butter. Regardless of your method, you have to get him. Once a raccoon has found a food source, he will be back again, and again, and again...

 

[calman5565]

The absolute best bait for raccoons are marshmallows. I just caught five in as many days with marshmallows in the havaharts but I didn't have a heart with them. Lead therapy from the Hornady 17 HMR solved the problem. Put two marshmallows UNDER the back end of the trap and on outside the front of it. Good Luck!

 

[codechicken1]

Marshmallows will do it

 

[Miss Lydia]

With your injured Turkey be sure to watch for flies because maggots will follow very hard to get rid of. Hope she pulls through and you get that coon.

 

[TeamChaos]

Ugh, we just lost our first injured bird to maggots and I'm just sick about it so I want to re-iterate the "watch for maggots!". Also, on the screens- I've found that most screws will just allow the screen to rip away- I end up using screws w/ washers to distribute the pressure of a dedicated coon.

My gosh, woman, you have your predator plate FULL! I have to tell you, nite before last I heard my husband yelling, one of the dogs barking and my daughter ran in to get a flashlight and me. There was a huge coon right above our broody house! I grabbed the gun and ran up there, but I forgot my glasses. D'oh! My husband kept saying "do you see his tail? do you see his butt?" and I kept hissing "NO! I don't have my friggin glasses!". It made me so mad! I don't need my glasses for most things and I don't wear them all the time, but I'm thinking about putting a glasses case on the butt of the gun w/ my spare pair in it so I won't go through that again!

 

[herfrds]

TC The screen was on my DH's grandmothers chicken house. It is like a wooden framed window and I screwed it to the window frame so there is no way it is coming off.

 

[TeamChaos]

You've got a *real* screen then! That's a relief- and, because I get sentimental about strange things- I think it is SO COOL that you'd have your DH's Grandmother's chicken house screen for your own.

 

[holyhart]

You've got a *real* screen then! That's a relief- and, because I get sentimental about strange things- I think it is SO COOL that you'd have your DH's Grandmother's chicken house screen for your own.

Can't a coon just rip through the screen? Shouldn't there be hardwire cloth or something more substantial over it?

 

[ldel4567]

I had something tear through the screen on my coop and killed a chicken. I didn't know what got it; reading your story, I guess it was a racoon.