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07/02/15, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
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Got him!
I've been battling this one the last month or so. Had a foal that the mare rejected so had to start her on the Foal Lac pellets and supplements , so she was in the stall with feed all the time.
This beastie discovered the 'free lunch' and has been snacking on the $3.50 per pound pellets nightly.
No more!
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07/02/15, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: michigan
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Ya, we have one comeing in. Went out to pick strawberrys yesterday and they were flat like a hay field after a bad storm. Then dh fed the feral cats and here comes a coon. So dh gets the trap I put in mashmellows. This morning, marshmelloes gone and the trap empty, the flat trigger thing all bent up. So, I told dh,feed the cats on the ground away from everything and get the 22.
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07/02/15, 04:38 PM
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Good job SFM.
7thswan...ouch! get that little thief. That could be an expensive problem if he's not stopped soon. I've had coons corner people in barns and chase cats to the point it took us months to get them calmed down. No coon gets the benefit of the doubt around here.
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07/02/15, 11:29 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: West Kentucky
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SFM, you are welcome here anytime. We lost all (40) of our chickens to raccoons last year. The boogers are so fast!! And it turns out there were so many of them!! As cute as they are, they have no place around here....
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07/02/15, 11:40 PM
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Murphy was an optimist ;)
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Kentucky
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Glad to see you caught him.... Hope you relocate him... To your freezer!
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07/03/15, 05:40 AM
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We've generally had more problems with dogs running loose than anything else, at times a real problem when we had rabbits. But I've not had real issues with raccoons or opossums because we've not had any reason to keep grain or dog or cat food outside and available before. This certainly did identify that there could be a problem if the circumstances were changed though.
I do plan to keep the trap baited and set as this one wasn't a full grown animal so I wouldn't be surprised if there were more around. Also, we had a neighbor that's been here for years that didn't have any outside animals or any garden and routinely put food out for *anything* that wanted it, used to tell me about seeing the raccoons and opossums come in, along with the occasional fox, plus whitetail deer and turkeys! She's just moved so I wouldn't be surprised if her wildlife population isn't looking for another food source!
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07/03/15, 08:04 AM
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Crud, no coon this morning and marshmellows gone. Maybe with dh home the weekend we can figure out something. I have 3 Lavender Orpention hens sitting and 2 others setting. They are who I'm worried about.
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07/03/15, 09:02 AM
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Do hope you get it figured out. We had chickens at the ranch when I was growing up, but no raccoons ... skunks and weasels ... and they could really decimate a flock of chickens in a short time. Didn't have live traps then, or we didn't know about them anyway and we would set leg hold traps some places, but couldn't use them a lot because of the barn cats and farm dog.
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07/03/15, 09:13 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: EastTN: Former State of Franklin
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Use a conibear #220 trap. They don't get the bait out of that type, they get dead.
For racoons, use a bucket set method, and bait it with sardines or tuna.
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07/03/15, 07:02 PM
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The only trouble with a conibear type trap and a bucket you don't know what you will catch - your neighbors dog or cat or some other animal that you don't want to kill -
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07/03/15, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 7thswan
Crud, no coon this morning and marshmellows gone. Maybe with dh home the weekend we can figure out something. I have 3 Lavender Orpention hens sitting and 2 others setting. They are who I'm worried about.
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Put one in a hole in the ground and set the trap so the pedal is over it. The coon will work to try to get it and hopefully get caught.
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07/04/15, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: michigan
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Caught our monster last night. Boy he was mad,tore up the trap pretty good.
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07/05/15, 07:31 PM
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Location: Big house little farm, Calhoun Mo
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Wish we could catch the ones that keep killing our poultry. Think coons are what mauled our outside tom cat. He lived but took a heck of beating.
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07/05/15, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by TnAndy
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be careful 220s are not legal in several states for ground sets and are very unforgiving to both dogs and cats
I use 160s but with extreme caution as to location , undisciplined use of these traps hurts trapping every year , I don't want to loose good tool to bad location use by someone who isn't thinking it through.
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07/05/15, 08:27 PM
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a friend used some of my DPs (dog Proofs) and his live trap to take 20 coon just outside his chicken coop this spring then coons stopped but he was still loosing a bird a night , he got a game camera and found he was loosing them to a horned owl , he built a night pen with top wire to lock them in at night he is running about 500 free range birds so this was an inconvenience but loosing money every night to a protected bird of prey wasn't working for him either
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