Rocky Raccoon outsmarted me again....

[Friend of Feathers]

Then I setup in my bedroom which has a clear shot of the coop area about 40-50 yards away. We have a big hillside behind the coop as a perfect backstop.

My .22 is beside my nightstand. My DW doesn't mind me shooting out the window while she's sleeping and many times doesn't even wake up. Neither do my daughters.

The perfect system for a rural raccoon/opossum coop defense program. Two years plus with no birds los

Your situation sounds very similar to ours. I was thinking the other day, as I picked up a .22 casing off the bedroom floor, that there's got to be a less hillbilly way to take care of business.

 

[Cetawin]

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They do not mate for life and are not bonded. That is just the fanatical animal lovers story to get sympathy.



Get that critter and stew him up.

 

[bluey]

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Your situation sounds very similar to ours. I was thinking the other day, as I picked up a .22 casing off the bedroom floor, that there's got to be a less hillbilly way to take care of business.

Believe me, I grew up in New York city, my wife on a farm.

When my wife suggested that I shoot out the bedroom window, I said "Really? Are you kidding? Naahhh, i couldn't do that....could I?"

It's worked out perfectly. I don't have to leave the comfort of the bedroom at night. But it sounds really bad when I explain how I hunt raccoons to folks. They look at me like I'm nuts.

 

[Lextextrapper]

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Yes, they reach in to get the bait, pull the trigger and a wire loop closes around their leg/arm.

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

Some friends and I were going to go coonhunting the old fasion way. With Coon hounds.

But one of the coonhounds was sold and the other one died.

I was kinda upset and the guys were really unhappy because they loved the coonhounds. Oh well. Now I'm going to borrow a live trap from a friend and try to catch ol' Mr. Rocky with some banana.

 

[Opa]

Coon Hunting Monkey

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Any coon hunter knows that one of the most aggravating things about coon hunting, is when the coon "taps" a tree. This is when your dogs tree the coon,but the coon goes to the top of the tree and jumps a limb over into another tree without the dogs knowing it,"tapping" the tree.
Neuegene Ledbetter and his brother Clovis met up with a guy named John Newbanks, a well known coon hunting master all over Amet county Louisiana. John Newbanks had a special method that guaranteed productivity in coon hunting.
They met at the Amet Swamps one evening to go coon hunting. John pulled in with a cage in the back of his truck,covered with a tarp. Neugene and Clovis met him and they walked around the back of the truck. John said "fellers,what I've got in this cage right here, is gar-en-teed to produce coons". "what is it then"? they asked.
John pulled off the tarp, and in the cage sat this big orange monkey. "ahhhewww get that thing outta here" said Clovis "that thing looks too much like folks to be just running around out here".
"Clovis!..just let me show you, this monkey will produce more coons in a night than all of your hounds put together, all I need your dogs to do is to tree the coon" John said
So they went off hunting and it wasn't long before old Annie (one of the dogs) tree'd a coon. John walked over with the monkey and unhooked the leash from it's collar and handed it a pistol. And up the tree it went boogity boogity boogity, out on every branch, searching,searching,searching. But the coon had "tapped" that tree. So down the monkey came madder than a hornet,walked over to old Annie and thumb cocked the pistol and BOOM shot her in the head.
Neugene said "AWWWW WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?! THAT TRASHY THING JUST KILLED MY DOG!!!"
"Neugene...there aint but one thing that monkey hates worse than a coon..and that's a lying coon dog" John said

That's an old Jerry Clower joke, thought you guys would enjoy it.

 

[trilyn]

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Glad to amuse...

Been there, done that! Our first chicken lived in our garage for 6 months until I had a coop built. You'll do fine...good luck!

Thanks for the vote of confidence! It's been such an adventure so far, I have a roost attached to the garage door. Nothing like getting in the car in the a.m. to go to work and having a chicken staring out at you! I love it, my dh thinks I'm nuts but I'm used to that too!

 

[mmtillman]

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LexTexTrapper...care to explain the trap and how it works for us 'teckno challenged' folks out here...

 

[mmtillman]

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[mkeawsh]

I lost 6 chickens in a span of a couple nights two years ago until I found out about Niteguards. They are solar powered flashing red lights that start at dusk and end at dawn. I position them at the height of the predator I want to keep away and it has done a perfect job. I have six of them around my chicken tractors and have not lost a chicken in two years. Go to www.NiteGuard.com and read about them. They are great.

Gail