Racoon: Now I am MAD!!!!Need help!!!

[doubled]

if you don't plan to eat it, drown it in a 5 gallon bucket of water. if the trap is small enough, you can stick the whole thing trap and all in there

 

[GBov]

Why wouldnt you eat it if you had drowned it?

 

[doubled]

i suppose you could eat it if you drowned it, but be prepared to cook it long and slow as it will be full of adrenalin and could be pretty tough...

 

[GBov]

How would you kill it without a gun other than drown it if you wanted to eat it?

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Go to your local sporting goods place and get a 22 riffle. There will be another coon in the trap next week. Might as well be ready for it.
Just ask them how to load it and fire it and be careful. If you handle it right, you could have a lot of free meat ahead of you.

 

[gsim]

Coons love marshmallows. What you could do short term is to get a package of those and punch many holes in all of them and soak them in antifreeze. You might include a bowl of it in the same place. Put them out after dark and go out at daylight to pick them up. No one wants to get some poor dog out for a walk. They will keep indefinitely so just keep putting them out every evening. You might just get lucky and nail him.

I have had a healthy respect for them before I got chooks. I determined that coons were most likely pred to attack my flock here in E Tenn. So, I put up a well built coop that only a two-legged skunk can get into, or a bull elephant. Then I put up 6 ft welded wire fencing, set in cement all around. I then put a 2 ft tall roll of chicken wire inside the fence to keep chooks from poking their heads thru. Then I installed a fence charger, 5 miles, 4 KV and 4 courses of hotwire, beginning at 8" and ending at 42". I lock them in their coop every eve at dusk. So far, no problems in 5 1/2 months of raising chooks. Going the extra mile pays off. Really hardware cloth mesh would be better than chicken wire, but my chooks are rarely near the fence as the run is large at 2,000 sq ft.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Eat them!!! Clean enough of those and chickens will be easy to clean. And think how much safer your coop will be.

 

[lavacaw]

I thought I had a pretty secure chicken coop and run...coons didn't think so. I put up a single strand of electric fence about four inches above the top of the fencing around the run and grounded it to the tin roof of the chicken house. I have trapped a couple of coons since and have seen foot prints but I haven't (knock on wood) lost a chicken since! The fence is over 8 feet tall and the coons have to hang on to the chicken wire to get over the top. Touching the fence and the hot wire at the same time grounds them and knocks them for a loop. Haven't found any dead ones though.