Something got my roo! I am just amazed. UPDATE-I GOT IT!! PG 9-GRAPHIC

[nnbreeder]

Sure you didn't get a through and through? I've hit Deer solid and didn't get a blood trail for quite a few yards.

 

[tomdeggeater]

http://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Game/Baked.Raccoon.html

Here's a link for a tasty Racoon recipe!
Traps with sardines sounds pretty easy to do, unless there's a lot of domestic cats out at night. Although, the .410 sounds like more fun...
I think I'll subscribe to this thread and see what happens...

Tom

 

[Mrs. Glassman]

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I'm pretty sure it went right next to it. I checked very close for blood, all I found were a few hairs. I'm getting geared up to go back out now.

I've got my chair ready, my traps set, a trail of sardine bits, & now the DS wants to sit outside with me tonight. He's setting up too.

"Crossbow Coon Hunting--It's a Family Sport!"

 

[invalidsession]

Mrs. Glassman :

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I'm pretty sure it went right next to it. I checked very close for blood, all I found were a few hairs. I'm getting geared up to go back out now.

I've got my chair ready, my traps set, a trail of sardine bits, & now the DS wants to sit outside with me tonight. He's setting up too.

"Crossbow Coon Hunting--It's a Family Sport!"

Sounds like quite the civilised hunting party

I'm sure we'll all be waiting for the outcome, good luck.​

 

[tulie13]

Mrs. Glassman :

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I promise, that's not the plan at all.

Oh, come on - you missed a perfect set-up there...

"Of course I'm going to relocate him - HE'S GOING TO FREEZER CAMP!!!"

 

[NotTheMomma]

Git 'er done!!!

 

[dixygirl]

You cant kill all the raccoons More will wander around the next night because the woods are all connected. I have proof that they need to be kept inside a coop at night now.

Last night I left my white rooster loose in his cage but not in his doghouse because it was so hot and he was on t he roof of his dog house instead of inside on his perch like usual. Well this morning I went out to find him TRAUMATIZED, TERRORIZED and with his white feathers everywhere ! He was ok though. Those satan hands reached through the cage of his 20 foot pen and snatched his feathers. Lucky for him they didn't get a good grip on his body.

If you don't put your chickens in a wooden house at night, you are sentensing them to a cruel death of having their body parts ripped off of their bodies through the fence one by one until they are slowly ripped apart, plucked and left dead. You can never kill all the raccoons that will browse through your area at night anymore than you can kill all the birds that fly by your house. There are going to be more out there at night always. But you can put your chickens up inside a safe house and not leave them as sitting ducks in a cage like bait.

Good luck building your chickens a suitable night house/ coop.

 

[GaNewChick]

What she said is the truth. P&P does provide support, but it should also have room for being educational and proactive.

I personally, see nothing wrong with her post.

 

[dixygirl]

To make someone think they can kill all the raccoons in the forest is not supporting them. It is telling them lies that will not help the problem. A coop is the simple solution that will solve the problem and is the best support anyone can offer. All animals should have proper housing and protection from the elements and predators.

 

[DiVon80]

Mrs. Glassman :

I just got back from the hardware store...I've got a ton of hardware cloth with holes so small, I can't even stick my finger through it. I know it won't stop them, but maybe it will slow them down until I can catch them.

What is worrying me, is that when we were getting the pics of them on the game cam on our property behind our house, sometimes there would be as many as 9 in one pic.

This is one of the few pics I could find...we delete most of them after seeing them. I think the problem might be DH has stopped putting corn in the deer feeder. They are monster big.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29722_coon.jpg

The neighbor down the road is a coon hunter with dogs. IF I don't dispatch these evil beasts with glee & malice myself, I may donate them to him to run to death, training his dogs.

Question?? I am not a hunter but, why if you hunt do you feed the deer? I was in academy and saw all these feeders and corn and was just wondering.