Tips on Scaring Away a Racoon

[mama dixie]

I am very new to this sight, we have had trouble with racoons and I even shot at one and missed more times than I would like to admit :O. that is the joke in our circle. I know use cyane pepper a scarecrow sprinkeler and I am hopeing to try this nail thing if I can figure out how to make it, does the racoon get the nails stuck in its hands or how does it work? I just cant picture it. I have also taken an egg and shot it up with a strong cyane pepper or amonia. just be sure neighbor hood dogs and cats dont get it. I so hate them they chew off the heads of hens, if they can get them through the fence, and dont bother to eat them. good luck getting rid of them. I have a little pug dog and they chase him untill they see me running at them with the hose or the pitchfork. my brother lectures me about how mean they are and I try to not chase them but when I see a hen or my dog in trouble something snaps and I think they can scence it.. they are lucky I am old and chubby or I would have one by now.

 

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

This is slightly off topic but I want to suggest it anyway - I use my son's .22 rifle. I've become partial to it since he's installed a scope on it. I love it - 8 and counting. Now, I never miss. Last year in a span of a few hours starting predawn I shot 5. It was hot and humid outside so when I went from the cool air-conditioning to the outdoors the scope fogged up much the same as eye glasses would. I still managed to do the deed that needed to be done. My little Schnauzers had "treed 'em" so I had to shoot 'em.

Your brother is right they can be mean and they have even gone after my dogs and cats. I can't tell you the number of chickens I've lost in the last 7 years. We live near a creek in a heavily wooded area. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to protect your birds and other animals. Everything here is locked up safe and secure each night. However, They have grabbed hens through wire at 4pm in the afternoon - they don't always strike at night. They can also manipulate simple locks and work them over until they open.

I can highly recommend a .22 with a scope.

Joni

 

[saddina]

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The hand trap works because a racoon will keep it's paw closed aroung the object, making it unable to get it's hand free of the nails (usually there is yanking of said hand trapping it further). Now i've not used it myself, and i'd go have a heart and a bullet first. Is there an animal control for your county? sometimes they'll place a trap for you (because i'm in city limits, they'll place the trap, then dispose of the animal).

 

[mishellez]

Honestly, a secure enclosed coop that you close up at sundown works wonders. I have a slew of coons here and never had a problem except in the way-distant-past when I first forgot to close the girls up at the end of the day. Coons and possums come through at night, checking for any bread scraps the girls might have left by the back door, but have never (knock-on-wood) infiltrated the coop though I am sure they've tried. I think you can continue eliminating them but they will always be replaced by more. For me, the surest way of dealing with them is to be diligent about closing the girls up tight at night. That way I have the same 'coons year after year who can't be bothered with trying to find new ways of breaking into the coop and run because they know there's no reward in it. Essentially I've seen them ramble past the fenced run at night, nose to the ground, on their way to something else...like a neighbor's unsecured garbage, lol.

 

[duckinnut]

jojo@rolling acres farm :

This is slightly off topic but I want to suggest it anyway - I use my son's .22 rifle. I've become partial to it since he's installed a scope on it. I love it - 8 and counting. Now, I never miss. Last year in a span of a few hours starting predawn I shot 5. It was hot and humid outside so when I went from the cool air-conditioning to the outdoors the scope fogged up much the same as eye glasses would. I still managed to do the deed that needed to be done. My little Schnauzers had "treed 'em" so I had to shoot 'em.

Your brother is right they can be mean and they have even gone after my dogs and cats. I can't tell you the number of chickens I've lost in the last 7 years. We live near a creek in a heavily wooded area. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to protect your birds and other animals. Everything here is locked up safe and secure each night. However, They have grabbed hens through wire at 4pm in the afternoon - they don't always strike at night. They can also manipulate simple locks and work them over until they open.

I can highly recommend a .22 with a scope.

Joni

Next time leave the gun on the porch outside,going from a cool dry place to a warm humid climate will fog you up everytime.​

 

[Dogfish]

Kill the coon, then shoot it some more. There is no such thing as "scaring" as coon away. They will be back, and so will their young. Kill is again after you make sure it is dead.

 

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

Hi duckinnut,

Most of the time I keep the gun in the barn. However this particular time my family was traveling for a baseball tourney and I was home alone. My son had just cleaned the gun and had it hanging on the gun rack in his room. The foggy scope was a pain but I must say - I didn't think five coons in seven shots was all that bad. No clip - so I had to eject and re-load each time - after picking up the spent casing in between. My son's record is three coons in a day. I'm a legend in my own mind...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Yup just as many before me have said. Lead injection and dirt nap. Or commonly known as SSS !

 

[Ilovemyladies!]

I got my live trap yesterday, set it with some marshmellows and this morning there was nothing in it. Wish me luck tonight!

 

[mama dixie]

use eggs in the live trap, break one and put a bit of smelly cat food in as well just be sure to chain that live trap to a tree becuse if it is a family of coons they will drag it away. good luck.