We got 'im. Now who's laughing Mr Raccoon?

[ohiofarmgirl]

So in this episode of As The Turkey Turns....

you may recall from all my ranting that we had the most disastrous of all turkey hatching seasons... first, only ONE of our incubator poults hatched, then the bad egg episode, then the nest raiding by the other hens, then Bramble hatched in the brambles, then the cocci..... and all thru this our most ridiculous BR hen, Runner, would not lay or set or anything.

finally - FINALLY she sat on a lovely clutch. about a week into it we noticed that 2 eggs were out of the nest and smashed. at first we thought she pitched them out - then we found 2 more. fine. so we moved her and the nest up closer to the house in a safe place.

not so - over the last two nites something reached his little raccoony hands thru the wire and pulled out and killed the rest of her eggs! so we put out the trap (he easily defeated the trap the first couple of times)....and now..

... little Mr Raccoon is out there crying his little eyes out because its raining on him in the trap and he gave me the sad little look and could i let him out?? well friend... we are just about to oblige you and put you clean out of your misery.

take THAT raccoon and let that be a lesson to the rest of your masked friends to stay away from my turkeys!

we got 'im.

 

[Gloria]

Yay!! I'm so glad you were able to catch that critter!

I'm afraid I have a opposum party going on at my house.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

possum party!!?!? drat.. well get out the trap

;-)

when the rain stops we're having a burn pile for that rascally raccoon and sending him back to Valhalla in style.

me n the dogs are gonna do a victory dance over the vanquished (think kevin cosner in dances with wolves - when he dances around the fire). then we're gonna hang the skull and cross bones in a nearby tree as a warning...

 

[ma2babygurl13]

We too have had a coon problem... had a nice big clutch of eggs (before we bought our bator) had nearly 17, then it went to like 9 then 7 so on and so forth. We set a trap and BAM caught our big momma coon.... We baited her with layer crumbles (as our food bin was broken into as well). We didn't have a problem for I'd say nearly a month....then we started noticing our feed pan from inside the pen was being drug around and almost out of our pen... where something was digging in.....so we set the trap and BAM we got another coon this one was smaller...I wonder if it was momma coons babies. The reason I say momma coon, she still was missing fur on her stomach where babies had been nursing. The second coon was dead in the trap so we didn't have to waste a bullet! It was much smaller than the first, I would guess only a couple of months old...now we just sit and wait because I'm sure another one will come along!

 

[toredano]

Good catch..

I am myself tired of these things. We installed a alarm outside that goes off in the night if something comes around the coop and the run. Usualy that thing bing bongs once a night
We got it from Harbor Freight and ist a driveway alarm. wireless and battery operated.Its worth the 20 bucks to catch them in the act.

But then my husband who is a certified gun nut , instead of of using the .22 he used his AR-15 (.223) on it.. it was a mess.Had to use bleach to disinfect a rather large patch of gras .Now gras is dead. lol



Silly men..

 

[bluey]

Nice job!

As for his cute face...

Jesus needs some cute raccoons too!

 

[miss_jayne]

Quote:
i'm gonna have to come over and bring my coal shovel and pink muckers.

nice work ofg! varmints will not be tolerated. git 'em. whack 'em dead.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

instead of of using the .22 he used his AR-15 (.223)

wait do we have the same man??

mine used some huge shot gun thing on the first raccoon we trapped - and it blew the hav-a-hart all to pieces... i laughed myself silly when we hillbillied it back together and told his city-fried mother that we 'set him free somewhere'.... if only she knew.. the horror...the horror....​

 

[ma2babygurl13]

My husband wanted to let our momma coon out of the trap and target shoot with her...instead he took the .22 and shot her in the trap, that was enough of a mess, blew her eyeball out and all!

 

[Soccer Mom]

We refer to the coons around my property as the ninjas. They drop from the trees onto my roof and wriggle in through the vents. Now the entire roof is hot wired.

Bzzzzzzzzt!

My dad and sons usually do the deed when we trap one. Once Dad was too busy to go back to his house and get the .22. He's a cop and had his service 9mm. Forgot he had hollowpoints in it from the target range. Yeah, that was a huuuuuuuuge mess. Blew my trap up too.