Raccoon in Farm Outbuilding

"My name is ComfortablyNumb Montoya. You killed my ducks. Prepare to die."


now i am muttering that walking around with a bull barreled scoped 22 target rifle..
THERE WILL BE BLOOD TONIGHT!

Hey wy white wolf,

Where in my post do I say I plan on letting the raccoon go in front of someone else's place??? I find your response insulting and you owe me a public apology.

"Your brain, Fezzik's strength, my steel..."

(I love these drifts...)

So, did you get any of the varmints?

Pony!

A wee bit touchy, are you? Lighten up!

Eh? So you want to match wits with a Sicilian?!

.....Alan.

Provided it isn't killing any animals that you may have, let it alone. It's not hurting anything and chances are will move along as you become more active around the place.

Keeping a radio in the building on, may work as well. It's sleeping during the day and if you have a radio on tuned to a station with alot of noise (it will probably look for quieter sleeping quarters).

If however it is eating your animals, by all means blast it. I lost enough chickens to them over the years before I got my Great Pyrenees.

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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania

"Everything happens for a reason."

So far this year I have cought 8 racoons in my shed using cat food for bait.
However I think there is something wrong with my live trap because not a one has come out alive. Go figure!

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Our homestead-in-the-making: Palazzo Rospo
Eating the dream

Unwelcome comments like this along with the previous poster who presumed that I was going to let the raccoon go in someone's yard are the reason I and many others hesitate to post on forums such as this.

You jaded folks who think you can say anything because of the anonymity of the internet and say things you wouldn't say to someone's face are intolerable.

Be sure that the raccoon is completely dead, not just mostly dead.

Sorry you left AD...

But you are talking about a very resourceful predator, that isn't endangered anywhere, that is the bane of every homesteader here that owns any animals or raises any crops... ...and this IS a homesteaders forum....

a similar analogy would be capturing Adolph Hitler early in the the Great War, and going to a Jewish based forum and wondering if you should relocate him. Hitler was evil. I sincerely hope his soul is still being punished....

Coons, once they get a taste of easy food, will return, until there Is No More Food!

texican >has a coon carcass being 'revenged' by the survivors of his earlier meals.... {Chickens are eating him, a bite at a time!} out in the chicken yard...

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Skin and eviscerate being careful to remove the lymph glands. Remove all the fat you can. Place in pot with two or three stalks of celery, four or five chopped cloves of garlic, a couple large onions (quartered), a quartered apple, a cup of vinegar, 2-3 jalapeno peppers, and about 1/4 cup salt. Put in enough water to cover the coon and bring to a boil. Simmer for a couple hours or until a fork goes in easy. Take the coon out of the pot, cut off the front and back legs and cut the rest of the carcass into four pieces. Lather the meat up with bbq sauce and slap that puppy on the grill for 45 minutes to an hour.

LOL!!!!

I just nailed the huge SOB... he has to be near 18 or so lbs. I think one of the biggest ones Ive nailed yet.

no wonder the ducks were ripped apart.... dang. Big male.

the shot went in one ear and out the other.

owch...

yeaup, he isn't mostly dead... he isn't only merely dead, he really is most sincerely dead.

oops wrong movie.

Are you sure????

I picture CN standing by the raccoon, weapon in hand. The raccoon, cowering yet trying to act in control...

CN speaks.

"Promise me power... Promise me riches... Promise me anything I want..."

Raccoon:

"Yes, yes, all that and more!"

CN:

"I want my duck back, you S.O.B.!"

Dang coon got one of my blue Silkies night before last. I put heavier wire in the bottom of the hen house so they couldn't tear a hole through it, but the spacing was apparently large enough for the thing to get a paw in to grab the bird. I laid half-inch hardware cloth over the top temporarily until I finish getting the electric fence run today. I think I'm going to wire a chicken leg to the hotwire tonight just to be sure they experience it.

.....Alan.