It's coon killing time of year.

Friends lost all their meat chickens In one night. They were not interested in trapping because of their dog and cat untill then.. He shot one he heard in the trash. I went over after church and we put out 2 dp and one box trap. Baited with marshmallows drinched with cool aid. First night there was one in the box trap and one In a dp.

My wife's pet chicken(we have over 60 egg layers and.50 meat birds) that runs loose had lost a ton of fathers but survived, dad had a coon at his door last night.

The meat birds are still inside. I better get the coons killed before they get put outside and the sweet corn gets ripe.

Wipe em' out ..... if you can.
I keep traps set 24-7-365

Got back after dark and the chicken wagon door was open. 6 hens roosted on the glider in the yard, which was odd. The dog knew something was up and alerted me. Shot 2 coon in the wagon. They were eating eggs. The rest of the chickens were on roost in the wagon. No chickens harmed.

Good to hear it was just eggs.

Coons are getting in everything here too. One of the reasons I don't free range my birds.

Update. While I was away at work my boys 9 and 12 got to work at home. They set a few traps, and caught a few. They also started driving the farm after dark and nailed a few with either a.22 or 20g. They took both. My first night back on my rounds to lock up chickens and feed other stock a opossum made the mistake of walking out. My 12 year old hit it with his .22. That one turned out to have bonus points , more of. 7 for one shot type thing.

Tonight the battery on the light was dead. It getting later and hopefully the fawns are big enough thay will get out of the way now so it will be time to do some bush hogging. That will make it expose the varmints more.

One of the boys air gun a rabbit in the garden from 50 yards also.
Lots of varmints this year.

Coons unchecked will eat.....everything. They will destroy an ecosystem.

I have caught 7 in the last week in my Z traps

13 in 7 days, 2 dog proofs. Think I need to set more.

My 12 year old just came in and told me they had another coon this morning. He shot it and dumped it in the dead pit before coming in. Didn't bother to come get me. He is getting all grown up.

I can't free range chickens or turkeys here. Not because of the coons but because of the bears. Woman totaled her car at the end of my driveway 2 nights ago, hit a big bear. Bear got up and walked away!! Have not seen any buzzards so he must have survived. I have to use an electric fence around my chicken coop and garden (not a battery one but direct hookup to 110). I wrap raw bacon around the wire, shocks the tar out of bears and coons. I know when a bear tried the bacon at night as there are for divots of sod there in the morning.

I like that plan ! Love to see it LIVE ! Likely a little urine and spray of manure there too !
My neighbor used strips of aluminum siding smeared with peanut butter to "teach" the deer at his garden. Seemed to train them quite well.

Thanks

Eric When is the last time they had a bear hunting season in NJ ?

Would it be remotely fair ... for chickens to have guns ? ... if they could be trained to use them ?
Probably not, I guess as bears would then be packin em' too.

Something got one of my hens last night in the coop. All that was missing was the head. I suspect a coon. War is on!

Possum will do that too. Just the head.

Lat year at this time I had a neighbor lose her favorite rooster to raccoons so this year she asked me to put out a few traps for them since she has chicks. Took out 3 coons in two nights and she's very happy with my results.

Coons use to get into a 5 gal bucket I had my chicken feed in and sit there and snack. I buried a trap down in the chicken feed in the bucket and caught several that way till they caught on.

I've kept wire up for bears for years, but the bacon idea is brilliant!

We lost 15 chickens in one night. I got out the thermal and baited an area with cat food. I’m on fox #5. I know there is several more to go.

Haha, had 2 small coons in one cage trap this morning. The young of the year are out and about. My son caught 4 in one cage recently as well.

Me either

just caught one that was under the shed.

Buddy sent me a picture of another one that was waiting on him this morning.

Summer time garden and trash raiding menaces.

My buddy and I help out a farmer who lets us exclusively hunt his property. Last summer we picked sweet corn for him. The raccoons had destroyed 80% of his crop. This year we vowed to prevent it happening again. So far we have taken 45 raccoons and a couple dozen possums and it is not slowing down.

I have 14 coons and 3 grinners from this one persons yard this year! Wow are they butt ugy this time of year. If people who bought coon garments saw these summer denning coons they probably would not buy coon fur and they stink besides. Starting to see the pups on the hwys now so they are weaned and moving, waiting for the sweet corn and corn to ripen.

Bryce

Young of the year…