The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[member 655102]

Had a major set back with my lavender Duckwing group.
Came out day before yesterday to find their latch unlocked and everyone escaped.
Rounded up the girls but since they spent the night running a mock with unsavory males. Probably mostly with that Chook rooster now I can't use them for 6 weeks.
Never found the rooster. Figuring he probably wasn't fond of being turned loose in general population that he was probably hiding somewhere.
Decided I needed to track him down so yesterday I was forming a search party when I saw something that put it on hold.
Lost a blue hen. Classic raccoon attack. Pulled half through the wire and dismantled.
Rounded up my dog proof traps and bait etc. By then it started pouring rain and wasn't letting up. I set three of those traps and my live trap. Found the remains of my lost rooster behind the barn in the fence line.
Anyways.... this morning.......
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Love those dog proof traps.
They're a pita to set and it seems it takes a lot of pressure to set them off but man do they work.
Will move and reset everything for tonight. I never trust there's only one when it comes to raccoons.

I’m so sorry, Moony.

raccoons.

 

[troyer]

Had a major set back with my lavender Duckwing group.
Came out day before yesterday to find their latch unlocked and everyone escaped.
Rounded up the girls but since they spent the night running a mock with unsavory males. Probably mostly with that Chook rooster now I can't use them for 6 weeks.
Never found the rooster. Figuring he probably wasn't fond of being turned loose in general population that he was probably hiding somewhere.
Decided I needed to track him down so yesterday I was forming a search party when I saw something that put it on hold.
Lost a blue hen. Classic raccoon attack. Pulled half through the wire and dismantled.
Rounded up my dog proof traps and bait etc. By then it started pouring rain and wasn't letting up. I set three of those traps and my live trap. Found the remains of my lost rooster behind the barn in the fence line.
Anyways.... this morning.......
View attachment 3500214

Love those dog proof traps.
They're a pita to set and it seems it takes a lot of pressure to set them off but man do they work.
Will move and reset everything for tonight. I never trust there's only one when it comes to raccoons.

Last fall I got a Cur pup and a neighborhood special pup.
I started going out and hunting raccoon at night the middle of January. I shone the trees and if I saw eyes reflected I checked it out, it didn't take many times of popping one out of a tree for the Cur to get the idea that if he puts em up, I'll bring em back down.
By the end of hunting season I had gotten 72 coons and some other varmints. The pups were about four months old when I started them and they caught on real quick.
One night when the Cur was about eight months old he treed seven coons in three and a half hours, I was pretty impressed.
All the neighbors noticed a sharp decline of raccoon activity right around the beginning of March.
Captain the Cur.

And Bowser the neighborhood special.

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

Last fall I got a Cur pup and a neighborhood special pup.
I started going out and hunting raccoon at night the middle of January. I shone the trees and if I saw eyes reflected I checked it out, it didn't take many times of popping one out of a tree for the Cur to get the idea that if he puts em up, I'll bring em back down.
By the end of hunting season I had gotten 72 coons and some other varmints. The pups were about four months old when I started them and they caught on real quick.
One night when the Cur was about eight months old he treed seven coons in three and a half hours, I was pretty impressed.
All the neighbors noticed a sharp decline of raccoon activity right around the beginning of March.
Captain the Cur.
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And Bowser the neighborhood special.View attachment 3500468

So you're saying Moony needs another dog?

 

[troyer]

So you're saying Moony needs another dog?

Instead of waiting for the coons to come to him, he should go out after them.

 

[member 655102]

This is what they did to my favorite black hen last year…

Spoiler: WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT!

I stayed up for 2-3 days straight until I finally caught the one responsible.

FYI - I do NOT relocate them. I shoot and kill them then dispose of their bodies in a flaming trash can where they belong.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Instead of waiting for the coons to come to him, he should go out after them.

Not an option. There are no raccoons living on my property or the properties behind me or either side.
They come from the two properties across the road from me. Also where the coyotes are. Unfortunately neither owners will allow any type of hunting and do none themselves.
I've watched Where The Red Fern Grows enough I'd be all about coon hunting with dogs.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've watched Where The Red Fern Grows enough I'd be all about coon hunting with dogs

And I've watched it enough, I just can't bear the "what if's" to even really think about getting into it if I move somewhere that would work well for the activity

 

[Amer]

Last fall I got a Cur pup and a neighborhood special pup.
I started going out and hunting raccoon at night the middle of January. I shone the trees and if I saw eyes reflected I checked it out, it didn't take many times of popping one out of a tree for the Cur to get the idea that if he puts em up, I'll bring em back down.
By the end of hunting season I had gotten 72 coons and some other varmints. The pups were about four months old when I started them and they caught on real quick.
One night when the Cur was about eight months old he treed seven coons in three and a half hours, I was pretty impressed.
All the neighbors noticed a sharp decline of raccoon activity right around the beginning of March.
Captain the Cur.
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And Bowser the neighborhood special.View attachment 3500468

Talent.
Bowser has some nice ear spots.

 

[The Moonshiner]

And I've watched it enough, I just can't bear the "what if's" to even really think about getting into it if I move somewhere that would work well for the activity

What's the what if's?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What's the what if's?

Treeing a cougar that attacks the dog. Nonmovie based, but a rattler biting the dog is also worrying.