YIKES!! Just looked in the nestbox for eggs and there was a RACCOON!!!

[Carolyn252]

Yup; he was in there all night, just a foot away from the roosting chickens.

The trapper euthanizes with carbon monoxide. So that coon will NOT be back.

Oy !!

 

[bobbi-j]

Glad the trapper will take care of it permanently.

 

[ChickInDelight]

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That sounds like he puts that trapped animal in a plastic trash bag and inserts the exhaust pipe of his truck.

 

[leonphelps]

or lets the raccoon out a mile from the property for a return customer.

 

[humpbacks1962]

A racoon bit a wonderful chicken of mine. I thought I took care of the wound well enough by cleaning is and applying bacitracin. To my horror, a week later she was being eaten alive by maggots. I guess there was a wound I did not see under all that feathers!

My chicken died a few days later but guess hw I felt one morning when I was driving t work and saw a racoon squished by some car tires on the road. You can only imagine what I wished for...

 

[Nambroth]

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Unfortunately NY now (as of 2010) classifies air rifles over a certain velocity as a 'firearm' and one must be a minimum of 500' from any occupied dwelling in order to legally discharge it.

(emphasis mine... the chances of a neighbor actually caring are low but I felt I should mention it just in case)

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

i think i would just make sure my neighbors were aware that you caught a raccoon and were going to dispatch it with the airgun. just in case someone is easily startled by the noise. i am sure they would prefer it dead than possibly giving them rabies!

 

[brahmakid11]

oh, my, gosh,!!!!!

 

[True Grit]

I would love to have a nice resident non chicken-eating raccoon. He would have his territory and keep all the chicken-eating raccoons away!
ETA and thanks for reminding me to go lock up. It's dark enough...

 

[DinosRBirds]