nuisance coon

neighbor has coon tearing his silage bags open and wanted some assistance. set 5 dps 3 with mini marshmallows maple syrup, 2 with minis and raspberry jello. caught 4 coon in 2 nights. nothing spectacular but he was happy.

Good deal

been a lot more coon issues here lately also.

did you move them

Good deal Man!

A lot of people are talking about the increase in the coon population. Getting in their chickens, buildings, cat food and dog food. Looks like another season or two of no fur demand and disease will even things out. Too bad the anti's can't be close to some of the animals dying from disease, taking days or longer to finally die. Proves to me the anti's are using a cause for big pay for their higher ups. If it was truly about being humane they would readjust their thinking, and wake up and smell their stench and that nature is sometimes cruel when not managed by appropriate means.

2 more this morning. yes there being turned loose

Yep seems to be quite a few raccoons around our neck of the woods too!

I will have to get my line organized this year. The females and the YOY are paving the roads up here and there has been no major disease outbreak as of yet so this will be a good year to work on some. The corn here will ear really late and then almost all will go for silage in late September and early October so there won't be as much fall food as normal. With all the ditches and sloughs still full lots of frogs etc. to munch on.

Bryce

that's a good way to start a good relationship with a land owner. Good Job!

Silo bags with HMC or corn silage draw a lot of coons. That is a good way to line up some good permissions. Silo bags were big here a decade ago but now there are far, far fewer as the dairy herds have expanded.
40 years ago we had 1200 dairy farms milking 52,000 cows in our county or an average herd size of about 45 cows with a few 200-300 cow herds. By the mid 90s we had 550 herds milking about 51,000 cows or about 100 cows per herd. Today we have about 260 herds milking 55,000 cows with the largest 20 herds milking over 30,000 cows. When we had the 100 cow average with a wide range bags were all over and coons were readily caught. Now with the huge herds, bags are too costly and time consuming so we have very large piles covered with plastic. We have large faces now on the piles and bunkers so the coons don't have to claw through the plastic to get the feed. Most large farms also have pest control firms that control rodents, other mammals, flies and some do birds as needed.

Bryce