Raccoons and raccoon disposal?

[langley hatching business]

Do not know about disposal. How ever I would change bait I read that with cat food or tuna you will just catch cats. I read the best thing to do is smear peanut butter all over the plate that it has to step on and throw a marshmallow in the back of the trap.

 

[cmom]

A few months ago I had a hawk breach. There was a gap in the netting where a zip tie had broken, deteriorated. A hawk got in and killed several birds. I did manage to get it out and retrieve some of the bodies. Most were pullets almost ready to start laying. Now I put hog rings to put the pieces together. I have a lot of birds, coops and pens. I have electric wire going around my coops and pens, concrete under the gates and now good heavy duty netting covering all of the pens and no further breaches. I have seen predators on my game cameras but they haven't tried to get to the birds. I have been seeing a young fox lately. I think it got zapped by the electric wires a couple of weeks ago because I heard something around midnight one night that sounded like it had tested the electric wire. Some of the bodies I retrieved from the hawk kill.

The new netting I replaced the crappy netting with.

 

[cooingdove]

yeah we had this problem a long time ago, but then we got a dog who ate chickens. after a month we managed to train her not to eat chickens so she ate the raccoons instead. yeah she is amazing in her youth she would actually kill raccoons.

 

[cmom]

These are the electric wires I have around my coops and pens. The bottom wire is around 6" off of the ground. I use the poly rope wire.

A fox and coyote at the chick/grow-out coop. They know the electric wire is there.

 

[cmom]

yeah we had this problem a long time ago, but then we got a dog who ate chickens. after a month we managed to train her not to eat chickens so she ate the raccoons instead. yeah she is amazing in her youth she would actually kill raccoons.

 

[cmom]

Originally I had just chicken wire up but have since also put up some welded wire. I have never had issues with coons but have seen them on my game cameras.

 

[Henry&Friends]

Back from the store, and this thing is HUGE! I guess I've over ever seen baby raccoons up close... Are raccoons this large?

Do not know about disposal. How ever I would change bait I read that with cat food or tuna you will just catch cats. I read the best thing to do is smear peanut butter all over the plate that it has to step on and throw a marshmallow in the back of the trap.

I was thinking about the cat outside, socks on the way to the store, and considering finding a smelly fruit or something to put in... I think I'll go with peanut butter, thanks! Although I dont have any marshmallows on hand... I might peel a banana and stick it in the back. I'll have to set it up when I put the chickens away tonight, so I don't catch one of my chickens lol

 

[centrarchid]

What kind of insulators do you have on hotwire fence?

Could you get chicks to roost a lot closer to ceiling of shed? Height is one way I get past opossums and raccoons cannot climb shear walls. If fencing holds, then fox that can jump up will not be able to get in where I can jump.

 

[Henry&Friends]

What kind of insulators do you have on hotwire fence?

Could you get chicks to roost a lot closer to ceiling of shed? Height is one way I get past opossums and raccoons cannot climb shear walls. If fencing holds, then fox that can jump up will not be able to get in where I can jump.

In the front are these $3 fence posts

and in the back are these, nailed onto trees

I'll see if I can move all broodies and chicks to the top roost tonight, and set the trap next to where I beleive the breach is.

 

[cmom]

I was after a fox that killed a special bird. I caught it. The live trap on the left is like yours. The one on the right is for coyotes, it's 5' deep. We had a lot of coyotes but a neighbor let some fellows hunt them on his property and I haven't seen as many since.