Raccoon help

[Sylverfly]

So I guess my barn is listed as a 5 star resort for raccoon somewhere, I have never had raccoon troubles before but lately its been raccoon city here. I have removed 5 raccoon in the past week and a half. One very upset mother and her 3 cranky children, and one very large lone raccoon. And sadly raccoon continue to drop by every night. They come in and tip everything over and make a mess and now they are trying to dig under the duck enclosure in the barn, last night one managed to pull off a handful of duck feathers reaching under the duck coop. This is a big raccoon he moves cinder blocks and tips over heavy tables every night in the barn. I have not been able to get him in the live trap, and do not own a gun/know how to shoot. I can't set snares or anything that would hurt the raccoon because I also have barn cats that I don't want to catch, or injure. I can't find any coon cuffs around here, is there a trap I can make to just snag a raccoon and not a cat. The raccoon have not found the hen house yet or ran off with a duck or rabbit either but its not from lack of trying. How do I get rid of this raccoon?

 

[centrarchid]

Revisit live trap. With trap wise individual, try a nearly empty jar of peanut butter with lid off. Make so coon can only approach jar by going through throat of trap. I use straw bales or plywood. Trap wise coons seem to set off trap by messing with sides or dragging it about.

 

[aprophet]

you can also just switch styles of traps they are caught fairly quickly with DP traps it is a lot easier to "blend" in a DP trap then a cage

 

[Greyfox Farm]

Perhaps you might try to get the coon comfortable with the trap and maybe he'll get careless. Bait the trap nightly but don't set it. After perhaps 5 or 6 nights of free food and no trap activity then set it. He might get lazy and get himself caught.

I second the DP (dog proof) trap idea, but that only works if you can shoot the caught coon.

 

[NovaAman]

yup, get a duke dog proof coon trap. Then call animal control or a neighbor to dispatch it.

 

[kitten6566]

Or just call animal control and they can come and figure out where the raccoon is, when it comes out of its spot, and what the raccoon is doing

 

[devora]

I have removed 5 raccoon in the past week and a half.

How do I get rid of this raccoon?

How did you kill the five? Why do you think that method isn't working on this big guy?

 

[Sylverfly]

The mom and babies went to someone with a wildlife license in the area and the lone raccoon was taken care of by someone I know. I don't know why I can't catch the big one..maybe its a smart old coon and its seen the others get caught inside the live traps, or maybe its more interested in eating a duck then whats in my trap. I set the trap up near the ducks last night baited with a cream puff and he ignored it completely. I put a large sheet of wood down so it couldn't dig under the duck enclosure door. It couldn't get at the ducks but it pooped in front of the door on top of the wood, Gross...that's some statement.

 

[TeamChaos]

He doesn't want cream puffs, he wants some meat or eggs if he's pursuing your ducks that hard. I think you need to find a place in the barn where he's used to walking through a narrow passage and set the trap up there, or cover the trap w/ barn junk to camouflage it and then bait it with some meat, an egg, some cat food and a marshmallow for good measure.

 

[Ted n Ms]

Could be one that has been relocated. It could have been in a trap before.