Raccoons........ Population Density?

[chickenzoo]

Emu are good for scaring off predators. My neighbors cats just barely jump the fence fast enough to keep their tails.

 

[ruby]

I don't like coons or 'possums....but my husband wants to re-home everything.. I didn't think I had a problem..but last week I bought some teenage chicks. I took the feed, housed in metal trash cans. put it out in the unsecured barn. Usually they are in the nursery, infirmary, whatever the need. It's pen inside the pen. The first night just one trash can was broken in to.. I thought I left it open. The next night all three were broken in too. I bunged one, and lashed the other two with a motorcycle tie down. So far so good till I read this tread.. So I'm going to call my local coon dog man that's just down the road. I don't know if he will want to tree them or trap. I don't care. I'm worried about my girls!

 

[kathyinmo]

I am also in Missouri. I am new to the chicken world (May, 2009). Thus far I have trapped 7 coons, had a hawk sweep down on my girls (didn't get one), and had a coyote standing in the road at 9 AM. I hadn't seen any of these predators around before I got my chickens.

I am thinking they must be reading my sign, "All night diner for wild animals!"

By the way, those coons will never again bother anyone!

I now have CDs blowin' in the wind, along with the pinwheels made of shiny stuff that I bought at WalMart. My chicken palace is beginning to look like a chicken ghetto.

 

[captdave2612]

I never have any problem with coons because when I trap them I send them to Michigan, just kidding.

We have always had high numbers so there’s no change I can see.