Dang coons
We have had our little chicken coop with a few Rhode Island Reds for our egg supply for four years. Well; a few weeks ago I had to put the rooster down because his leg was injured, toes mangled and spur missing.
I come to find out he was most likely protecting his hens.
In the last three days we have lost a hen per night to something. It would kill the hen eat the guts and about half the breast and leave the remainder. It was really starting to piss me off. So I went to Tractor Supply and paid 70 bucks for a made in China trap.
I got the thieving chicken murdering coon this morning.
He went to coon heaven.
Our ONE remaining hen is showing psychotic tendencies with definite symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
DO you think PROZAC will help her over the hump?
I come to find out he was most likely protecting his hens.
In the last three days we have lost a hen per night to something. It would kill the hen eat the guts and about half the breast and leave the remainder. It was really starting to piss me off. So I went to Tractor Supply and paid 70 bucks for a made in China trap.
I got the thieving chicken murdering coon this morning.
He went to coon heaven.
Our ONE remaining hen is showing psychotic tendencies with definite symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
DO you think PROZAC will help her over the hump?
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My mom has a bluebird nest.
One night a coon got reached in there and ate three baby bluebirds.
My mom got the .22 and shot the coon dead.0 -
well that makes two se ohio coons to "bite the bullet" this week i got his brother monday morn. in a have-a- heart live trap, whens the cookout![:D] Loko[8D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by LOKO383
well that makes two se ohio coons to "bite the bullet" this week i got his brother monday morn. in a have-a- heart live trap, whens the cookout![:D] Loko[8D]
The new hav-a-heart traps are made in China!
Coon on the grill, ah; nothing finer with collard greens and fresh Racine OH maters'! [:D][:D]
First coon I had a problem with. Coyotes are the BIG problem.0 -
Coon, Opossum, chipmunks, mice, moles, etc. don't make it long
on the place here, with 2 rat terriers and a cat.0 -
I thought you were talking about Obama again. Oops. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
I thought you were talking about Obama again. Oops.
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I wouldn't get rid of the trap. If you get more chickens, odds are there's another coon out there too. 0 -
Did he get his 72 virgins? Did he die in the service of Allah? 0 -
Having caught 30 coons in app 3 years attacking my pond.
Bait the trap with cat food, anything that has a fish flavor. Or if sardines are on sale.0 -
When we lived in delaware we had a huge pond in our back yard, and after a few years some beavers migrated there(i guess) anyways we had a alot fo trees in our backyard and they kept eating them. So we put out a huge live trap and all we kept catching was damn raccoons! they were mean as hell when we tried to open the cage to let them back out, i mean really mean![}:)] This thing was hissing and screaming, (i think it gave me the finger too!) 0 -
Fresh chikin!?!?! 
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I just built a chicken coop, and we have a lot of coons around our place. The last thing I want is for one to get into the coop and kill all our chickens. About a month back I shot two Raccoons who were trashing my back porch. The next day I saw one climbing up a large maple tree out front, so I shot that one too. The next day I could hear baby coons in the maple tree crying for their mommy. Just so happens that the coon I dispatched climbing the tree was female, and had a nest of three baby male coons inside the tree. My 13 year old daughter wouldn't have anything to do with just letting them die in the nest, so I had to get a ladder so she could climb up and rescue them. They had just opened their eyes, and she started feeding them goat's milk. Two of the coons didn't survive, but the last one (she named it Spike) is thriving. My yellow lab went through a false labor a few weeks back, and now she has adopted the last remaining coon. This little guy now thinks it's a dog. I told my daughter we were not going to keep it, and as soon as it can eat on it's own it will be moving to a friends place who wants it.
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I did the same thing with a Cougar - when it got about half grown, it ate two of my dogs and a colt.
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yeah i thought we werent allowed to talk about coons on this board ? 0 -
Did y'all read my post the other day about German coons? In 1934, Hermann Goering signed an authorization to allow importation of some raccoons into Germany, for a hunting group.
Now, the coons are taking over Germany, and have already begun to move into some of the neighboring countries.0 -
Introducing animals into other countries is almost never a good idea. bpost, forget the prozak, just get some more chickens to keep her company, and enclose the yard with, you guessed it-Chicken wire! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
Introducing animals into other countries is almost never a good idea. bpost, forget the prozak, just get some more chickens to keep her company, and enclose the yard with, you guessed it-Chicken wire!
It is TOTALLY enclosed....top, sides and bottom. The little coon worked a staple loose in the corner and snuck into the coop from there. I had the devil's time finding out how it was getting in. Tuesday night as I leaned across the top, arms folded under my chin in dispair from my dead chickens, I saw a flash of hair in the fading sunlight. It was stuck in the chicken wire. That was the place he was getting into the coop. He must have stepped on the edge of the wire as he left bending it back over so I did not see it at first.....0 -
took one out last night , just too bad i didn't get it before it killed 3 of our kittens 0 -
Ya think puttin' Proxac in the chickens will transmit to the eggs? Could make life around the house quieter after a good breakfast of farm fresh eggs. 0 -
B-BQ coon..MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM[8D] 0 -
"What's going on"
"Damn Coons are tryin to get into the school"
"When coons get on the back porch momma chases them off with the broom"
"Not coons stupid, n*****s"
Thats from Forrest Gump if you didnt know0 -
Don't think PROZAC will help her. If your going to get some new chickens, your one remaining should find her way into the stew pot, before the new ones arrive. Don't want her passing on the horror stories about what went on with the coon to the new girls. They will be too scared to lay any eggs. [:o)]
Why did you have a rooster? Were you hatching out the eggs?0 -
Buy an electric fence charger and run a couple strands of wire around the outside bottom part of your chicken pen. Once the coon gets shocked a couple of times they usually won't come back. I used to raise pheasants and this time of year when momma coon starts to take the young out to teach them how to hunt they will kill everything just to kill. Without the electric fence, they will find a way in to your pen. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by pickenup
Don't think PROZAC will help her. If your going to get some new chickens, your one remaining should find her way into the stew pot, before the new ones arrive. Don't want her passing on the horror stories about what went on with the coon to the new girls. They will be too scared to lay any eggs. [:o)]
Why did you have a rooster? Were you hatching out the eggs?
Our hens did not sit on the eggs so we never hatched any out.
We had a rooster so he could be an alarm for us, he was one big bird. He was pretty cool with an arrogance all his own. Anytime I would shoot he would do his thing with the hens all gathered around listening to him serenade them.
He sure had his way with the ladies too!0 -
quote:Originally posted by AmmoRat
Buy an electric fence charger and run a couple strands of wire around the outside bottom part of your chicken pen. Once the coon gets shocked a couple of times they usually won't come back. I used to raise pheasants and this time of year when momma coon starts to take the young out to teach them how to hunt they will kill everything just to kill. Without the electric fence, they will find a way in to your pen.
Good idea. I've used elec. fence to solve many problems around
here, to keep various varmints from where they shouldn't be. Very
effective.0 -
If your looking for a rooster I might be able to hook you up with some of the right people. 0 -
I caught a coon and a possum that was tearing up my garden in one of those big havahart traps this past week, then the third night the trap went missing... my game camera caught a picture of a med size wild dog that was looking down at the trap from atop a 2ft high wall that night... presumably at what ever was caught in the trap. I found the trap over 100 yards down the hill on the shoreline... the trap trip mechanism was mangled like a pretzel and 50 yards up the hill... the handle was also mangled and repositioned on the top plus the outside of both doors was covered with blood and hair... but no critters... whatever it was had to be pretty strong to drag the trap 100 yards thru briars & timber and then mangle the heavy trip wires and handles... gander mountain replaced the trap... Could the dogs have done all that? 0 -
I'm probably FAR too tolerant of such critters. I have an enclosed back porch with a very narrow cat door, because I feed my cats in there. But I find I'm also feeding other critters. My wife says a raccoon was sitting in a window sunning itself the other day. I've seen raccoons and have relocated several possums. The cats never seem to mind at all. The other morning a skunk was in my nearly empty cat-food sack. By the time I got my wife up to see it, something had startled it and...well...after almost a week the porch smells normal again. I sniff-checked, and no cats had been hit. I live in a game preserve in which shooting of such critters is illegal. So far I have tolerated them as a curiosity, but time will tell. My cats may have to start eating in my machine shed where they should be anyway.[:I][:I][:I] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by rossowmn
I'm probably FAR too tolerant of such critters. I have an enclosed back porch with a very narrow cat door, because I feed my cats in there. But I find I'm also feeding other critters. My wife says a raccoon was sitting in a window sunning itself the other day. I've seen raccoons and have relocated several possums. The cats never seem to mind at all. The other morning a skunk was in my nearly empty cat-food sack. By the time I got my wife up to see it, something had startled it and...well...after almost a week the porch smells normal again. I sniff-checked, and no cats had been hit. I live in a game preserve in which shooting of such critters is illegal. So far I have tolerated them as a curiosity, but time will tell. My cats may have to start eating in my machine shed where they should be anyway.[:I][:I][:I]
you will change your mind quick after a series of rabies shots,or your pets get rabies from saliva in thier food bowls,be careful,Loko[:D]0
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