Killing raccoons (NC)

[two_bit_score]

Here is the best type of Coon trap I know of.



try to post the other pic later.

 

[5030]

I have a friend who owns some greenhouses, and she has a LOT of cats living there.

A couple times a year, a racoon with come to the GH's and have cat dinners, until she traps the coon and calls a friend to come shoot it for her.

She always knows when it's happening as when she shows up in the morning, there will be "cat parts" lying around from when the coon got filled up.

SR

As many as my wife has, a few less is no issue.

 

[Ford850]

Here is the best type of Coon trap I know of.

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try to post the other pic later.

That looks like a Duke 1112 HD Large. TOG mentioned it earlier, and that's my favorite too.

 

[the old grind]

Being an animal lover but a DH, I live trap them and drop them off near a barn on a property of someone I don't particularly like...

They may work up an appetite on the way back to your farm from where dropped AKA from whence they might have found yours the first time.

Adding a dab of paint or an ear tag to can teach one a lot about critter territories and movements.

After a lesson or two from that a DW might laugh at your efforts so far.

Anchor your 1112s and 1114s. Siblings might tip them over and allow escapes. Otherwise I've yet lose any but had a young pair fail get one of them out while I was away sailing. They ate and pooped (inside and 5' outside of the trap) ~8' of 12ga extension cord. The green, black, white, and orange made for colorful scat, but I'd hate to have passed my half of that much wire with it.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

As many as my wife has, a few less is no issue.

That's how I feel about my friends place, but I like coons much LESS!!

SR

 

[two_bit_score]

Being an animal lover but a DH, I live trap them and drop them off near a barn on a property of someone I don't particularly like...

How often do you and the neighbors swap coons? :laughing:

 

[Billy Bee]

AND, it only takes "one time" for a coon to get through the fence and into the sweet corn, and it will destroy most of the patch!

I've had it happen, so I only kill them now...

SR

Yup, it only took them 3 nights to destroy 6, 50ft rows last year, so I'm getting a jump on the population, hope I can thin them out enough so I can save some of my corn. I have 2 barn cats, but I don't think they would tangle with a 'coon, they get rabbits, squirrels, moles, voles, mice, and do a good job on the smaller critters, but a 'coon, I don't think so. If you have a cat that kills 'coons, that's one tough p***y.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'd never believe a barn/house cat can kill a full grown coon! Coons can even kill some dogs, that also kill cats.

Even a bobcat is carful around a full grown male coon!!

SR

 

[two_bit_score]

That looks like a Duke 1112 HD Large. TOG mentioned it earlier, and that's my favorite too.

Here is the other pic. They work well. Dry cat food or dog food is good bait.

 

[wvgca]

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Here is the other pic. They work well. Dry cat food or dog food is good bait.

I use wet cat food mostly, live trap them then give them a swim in a barrel full of water, they are good for maybe three or four minutes at most, then dump the remains in a fence line maybe 300 yards from the yard .. no idea what eats them there, maybe wolves??

 

[Jstpssng]

That’s good to know about the electric fence. I had planned on that to protect my poultry this year but guess I’ll save myself the effort.

 

[Ford850]

Electric fence does work, but you need a big charger and the proper ground rods installed. The problem with coons is they are light (compared to livestock) so when the ground is dry they don't make a great ground connection sometimes. I've watched them take zap after zap as they grabbed a charged fence, and then move on over it like it was nothing. But that was due to dry ground. Sometimes I set sprinklers to dampen the surface for just a few minutes before dusk and that makes a big difference. The fence works well for my sweetcorn patch but I do try to thin the herd some before that.

 

[k0ua]

Reference Cats and Coon. Don't expect your outside kitty to take care of Raccoons. They cannot. We had a very large well muscled tough outdoor cat, but he would always try to get "high up" when a coon came up on his porch. He wanted no part of those critters, and rightly so. A large raccoon can and will tear up a cat to pieces. Those larger coons are not afraid of anything, and that includes people. I have went out on the porch and hollered at them and they look at you like "pizz off". The only thing I have seen they are afraid of is gunfire.

 

[/pine]

Electric fence does work, but you need a big charger and the proper ground rods installed. The problem with coons is they are light (compared to livestock) so when the ground is dry they don't make a great ground connection sometimes. I've watched them take zap after zap as they grabbed a charged fence, and then move on over it like it was nothing. But that was due to dry ground. Sometimes I set sprinklers to dampen the surface for just a few minutes before dusk and that makes a big difference. The fence works well for my sweetcorn patch but I do try to thin the herd some before that.

At least there are still a few people that are smarter than the average raccoon...!

 

[two_bit_score]

Reference Cats and Coon. Don't expect your outside kitty to take care of Raccoons. They cannot. We had a very large well muscled tough outdoor cat, but he would always try to get "high up" when a coon came up on his porch. He wanted no part of those critters, and rightly so. A large raccoon can and will tear up a cat to pieces. Those larger coons are not afraid of anything, and that includes people. I have went out on the porch and hollered at them and they look at you like "pizz off". The only thing I have seen they are afraid of is gunfire.

And when caught in a trap a coon will work constantly and diligently to get out of it. If they can’t figure a way out they will do their best to tear out.

 

[Ford850]

There's a spot just outside of my barnyard area. I call it the "cafeteria". The turkey vultures know it well.

 

[Billy Bee]

There's a spot just outside of my barnyard area. I call it the "cafeteria". The turkey vultures know it well.

Good one Ford! I think I'll call my disposal site, The Buffet, as there are 'coons, possums, and woodchucks on the vulture menu.

 

[the old grind]

Good one Ford! I think I'll call my disposal site, The Buffet, as there are 'coons, possums, and woodchucks on the vulture menu.

Put out the occasional feral cat or muskrat for a well-varied diet.

 

[kf4uda]

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Here is the other pic. They work well. Dry cat food or dog food is good bait.

I have my best success with marshmallows. Coons can't seem to resist them.

 

[tradosaurus]

Will the coyotes eat the raccoons?