Do Coons live alone or in a group?

Whichester1 · Jan 15, 2014

Killed a Coon yesterday, they are hungry and brave this time of year coming up to the house to eat dog food. Suppose the females are pregnant. My guess is if you see/kill one Coon you probably have more.
Does anybody know if they tend to live alone or as a group? I don't like them around as Coons are known carriers of rabies.

PJH · Jan 15, 2014

"Do Coons live alone or in a group?"

Yes they do.

Every thing you said is "yes"

Traditional Farmer · Jan 15, 2014

Coons are pretty much loners except in breeding season then they are fighters and..... you get the picture.Young ones will stay together for awhile but I have never seen a group of adult Coons together.And like rats when you see one you probably have 10 more around but they do alot of traveling especically the males, usually like to follow water of some sort.

Dean Olson · Jan 15, 2014

Yes.

I moved to a new acreage this year and got my chicken coop set up. Coons figures out how to open the door about the 2nd week. Lost 3 that night.

I started live trapping and "relocated" 8 in about 10 days. None since. 1 huge male, 2 mature females and the rest young ones. I suspect I got the whole group.

Texasmark1 · Jan 15, 2014

Down here they run in packs and are nocturnal. Love my freshwater clams in the pond. Clam shells for mature clams are 3-4" long and they have no problem breaking them open and getting out the goodie. They also like my rat bait.....Top Kat or something like that. Corn in your garden? Forget it.

Mark

DoubleR · Jan 15, 2014

I can't answer your question.
But I do know this. Every time I have a coon problem I usually get more than one before the problem is taken care of.

wilson ind · Jan 15, 2014

I think they do live in colonies (sp) I wonder the same about possums and what diseases they carry

gab · Jan 15, 2014

Years ago I did a lot of coon hunting, used to take vacation the first week of the season. If the dog treed in a brushey hollow next to a corn field I could usually find at least a couple more in the same area. Once got six out of one tree and the first night of the season the last year I hunted I got 16 out of a pretty small area so I think them multiples in a small area are part of the same litter.
Didn't have that kind of luck every night, sometimes I'd walk half the night for one or even none

Bob Bancroft · Jan 15, 2014

I've seen a group around my pond in the dark. Don't know if it was a family. Last spring when I started seeing tracks around the grain bins, I started trapping, baiting with corn. Got 9!

David G · Jan 15, 2014

Make sure you "relocate" them to the bottom of a river.

Nancy Howell · Jan 15, 2014

Don"t know if they live in colonies, but several years ago, I counted 9 racoons hit along a stretch of highway less than 1 mile long close to our farm.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2014

The answer is yes, on relocate or kill an old neighbor lived in town and farmed 6 mi out by me. One afternoon he stopped by with 3 live traps and had a coon in each. I asked what he was going to do with them, he said his town neighbors got upset when they found out he was killing them so he just turned them loose in town when it got dark.

rrlund · Jan 15, 2014

Don't know,but from the mess in my hay barn,there must be a hundred of'em in there.

Fergienewbee · Jan 15, 2014

I agree with Traditional Farmer. There may be several coons living in a barn or in a certain area, but I don't think they live in colonies, like beaver or muskrats, except when the female has kittens. Good habitat produces large populations. I haven't had a raccoon in my garden in several years. I do see tracks other areas, so I know they are around. Maybe the don't like Peaches and Cream. LOL!

Larry

Billy NY · Jan 15, 2014

Always thought they were loners, I have problems with them in my platform deer stand on scaffold, they crap all over the deck, chairs, attracting all kinds of flies and bugs, they sure are nasty, I don't see them all that often, but will shoot on sight if I am armed. I raise a few hatchling turtles every year as a hobby and release same in our big pond once they've grown a little, miserable coons have hit me twice, had to coon proof where they live outside in the warmer months.

I saw one last summer, same one in my other nearby stand, it was atop a black cherry tree I had a crows nest deer stand in, had I been armed, he'd have been done right quick.

They were notorious for rabies, and if you saw any in the day time, you had best beware, slow moving elderly people especially.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2014

Coons carry rabies and distemper around central MO.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2014

Hope he let them go on the said neighbors property. I live in town and share my catches with the country folks. Might have over harvested haven't seen any since fall but last week one without a mask showed up, didn't have a bushy tail or very long legs either.
Later Bob

Holtby · Jan 15, 2014

I used to coonhunt a lot with hounds. I'm with Gab,early in season, you tree a lot of multiple coon in a tree, it's a litter, Mom treed too or in nearby tree. The loners be boar coon and usually some of your biggest and good if not rubbed in the neck or too old and yellow colored. Mulitple coon are almost always a maternal group?

Whichester1 · Jan 15, 2014

Thanks to everyone for their responses. Sounds like more shotgun shells will be required.

GVSII · Jan 15, 2014

Young coons stay with their mother for the first 10 months or so and then move on.Males don't stay around females after breeding.They just look for another female.
Any mammal can carry rabies and infect any other mammal.Racoons are "somewhat"rabies resistant.

JayinNY · Jan 15, 2014

I'm watching infested on 286 right now on direct tv, some family has a bunch of them living in there attic!

GeneMO · Jan 15, 2014

(quoted from post at 06:43:54 01/15/14) Yes.

I moved to a new acreage this year and got my chicken coop set up. Coons figures out how to open the door about the 2nd week. Lost 3 that night.

I started live trapping and "relocated" 8 in about 10 days. None since. 1 huge male, 2 mature females and the rest young ones. I suspect I got the whole group.

Dean, I am sure that in normal circumstances we would be friends. However if I knew you were dumping your racoon out near me, we may have to have a come to Jesus meeting.

Gene

OH - 961 · Jan 15, 2014

The only good coon is a dead coon!
The blasted things are messy, foul critters. They always have to get up on something to take a dump.
I had a rack with some lumber stored in a shed that they got up on and crapped all over the place. That was a royal mess to clean out. Another shed has some stuff stored that they have gotten up on and likewise made a nasty mess. I'm not looking forward to cleaning that one out either.

Myron

Farmboy856 · Jan 15, 2014

Golden link_disallowed fly bait and pepsi mixed and left in bowls around the barn where you see their manure is quite effective. Sometimes you have to lift their heads out of the bowl after expiration has occured. Don't leave it where kids or pets can get to it.

JayinNY · Jan 15, 2014

I know, they carped and urinated so much in those people's
attic, the Sheetrock fell down into there house. Yep only good
one is a dead one.

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