Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
[Re: VermillionCoon]
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12/18/18 10:15 AM
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All the standing corn I've been around this year had shown very little damage from raccoon and most the creek banks I saw between boughts of flooding have shown little sign and what tracks I've seen are bobcat and big raccoon tracks.
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Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
[Re: VermillionCoon]
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12/18/18 10:50 AM
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If a lot of your coon are ground dwellers or Denning in old beaver huts, you could lose a lot of young coon with high water events.
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Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
[Re: VermillionCoon]
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12/18/18 11:04 AM
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Coons are WAY down here also prime places that produced several every year in the past that yielded 1 coon and in some great places that did not hold a coon or a skunk, talking old farm places with a ton of denning options for them. Must of been distemper early in the year as I'm not finding any carcasses like the last time it went through they were laying all over then.
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Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
[Re: VermillionCoon]
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12/18/18 02:27 PM
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They found a few coon in my area this summer that had rabies. I don't know how widespread it got. The DOW dropped rabies vaccine treated baits over a large area around here trying to stop the spread of the rabies. My coon catch is way off. Obviously some is due to the high water that has been prevalent this year but I'm not sure that is the sole reason. Possibly all the bobcats in the area have killed them off. Unbelievable how many of them are around.
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Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
[Re: VermillionCoon]
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12/18/18 03:04 PM
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It may have been the USDA. I'm going from memory. Just know the paper said some organization was dropping the baits.
Are you saying the baits that they drop kill the coon instead of vaccinating them?
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Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
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Coon catch way down here. One woods that is usually good for 15-18 produced 3. High water kept me out of some ditches that are usually good for a few. And I also caught a ridiculous amount of possum, trail set, dp's, blind sets,... Didn't matter, they showed up in all of them. No doubt, I must ha e caught well over a dozen possums in pocket sets and were drowned. Never caught that many possums in the water maybe a couple each year. The number caught in DPs was insane. To the point I was hoping someone would come out with an OP.
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Re: Coon Numbers Down Few YOY?
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12/19/18 05:16 AM
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Plenty of coon in N. W. Ohio. Only high water every other day is holding back the numbers on water animals.
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