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Nancy Howell

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Knew I had a freeloader at the barn - cat food disappearing way faster than my one barn cat could eat it.

Set the trap last night. Covered the trap with a large plastic bag because I thought the culprit was the small skunk I've been seeing.

Checked the trap this morning and had a pretty good sized raccoon.

Rocky will be relocated this evening.
 

dont let the epa or eieio know that your transporting wildlife without a permit..

good on getting rid of the pest.. take him down the road to that pesky neighbors house...
 

I found a possum a couple of days ago. He was already resting peacefully, so no need for relocation. Also found evidence of a visit from a racoon, so I placed a bowl of racoon kool-ade where he would find it. So far, no evidence he has paid a return visit.
 
yep,cover him up if your hauling him off,you can trap one legally,you cannot legally pick the trap up and move it, unless its furbearer season and you have a trapping license,same way with shooting a fox or coyote in your chicken house or something.you can shoot it but if you pick it up your in possesion and legally in the wrong.I fought it in court here once,should have smiled and paid the fine.
 
Better figure on hauling him at least 25 miles or he will be back in a week or less. Coons are a dime a dozen and the ones we catch get a head ache
 
You really need a defective live trap like I have, So far nothing has left the trap alive... Can't quite figure out what is wrong with it, but I don't have repeat offenders....
 
Ya that you know of. Once they are educate to a trap they will almost never go into one again. Coons are very smart and remember a long time. I have had more then one as a pet over the years and they can be trained like a dog and house broken even.
 
Only reason I use a "live" trap is just in case one of our cats was to make its way into the trap. That is the only thing that exits the trap alive hahaha.
 
(quoted from post at 07:10:59 09/22/11)
I found a possum a couple of days ago. He was already resting peacefully, so no need for relocation. Also found evidence of a visit from a racoon, so I placed a bowl of racoon kool-ade where he would find it. So far, no evidence he has paid a return visit.
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I hadn't really looked yet when I made this reply, but now that I have, I must admit I was wrong. That racoon DID pay a return visit, and he is now resting peacefully in my front yard. Guess I should go relocate him.
 
Worst year I had, I relocated 6. They were all different sizes, so I know it wasn't the same one or ones returning.

I'll relocate one and it will be months, a year or maybe more before another shows up.
 
hey nancy, i have a bunch of beaver that just moved in on both farms. the little varmints tore down 11 gauge welded wire fencing and carried off 3 of my fruit trees, and at the other farm, they already hauled off close to half an acre of field corn. found 8 lodges in the creek banks so far. nusiance trapper is supposed to come and clean em out. ya want em down at your place????
 
You do know that they eat on the way back to your place and in turn grow up more. Only way you know for sure you keep having the same one there is to tag them. I have lots of problems with coons and I can scare one off one day and will not see it for a week or more but they do come back over and over again and once trapped not likely to be trapped again
 
We had a nusance trapper that USED TO take them away alive. A farmer called him and asked him to PLEASE HELP! He was being overrun by coon. When the trapper came to the farm he said he was sorry and would trap them for free and KILL them this time as this farm is where he had been dropping the coon off. The trapper no longer handles them live.
On top of that point, How do you know it does not have RABIES or some other diesase that YOU are spreading to another area by relocating the coon??
My 2 Cents.
Keith
 
I like this suggestion. put him a pressure cooker then let set take off all of the fat and barbraque the meat Very good eating. gitrib
 
A story about trapping coons. When my grandson was 3 or 4 years old we watched him. If I had a coon in the live trap and he was there we would haul them off otherwise they met there demise. I always put him in the back of the pickup to watch them run when I let them loose. He watch one jump out the trap and run down the road. He yelled at me to get in the pickup and hurry because the coon was going to beat us home. I couldn't stop laughing at the time, but probably he was right.
 
We"ve got more critters than we need here on the farm.

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I wish I had your raccoon problem. They are breeding fast around me here in North-East Iowa. I had to quit my once a day evening cattle feeding. The Coons where eating and leaving so much crap in the feed bunks we had to shovel them out twice each week. I have to keep a electrified panel fence around my silage bags and bunkers. The coons tear the plastic up in just days if no electric.

So far this year alone, on just my farm, we have killed 72 adult coons. We got 34 one night in the cattle feed bunks. Five 12 gage shot guns with double OO. I have traps set and I also poison them too. It does not seem to slow them down from one year to the next. We killed over a hundred last year. The fall and early winter is when we are over run. So I would say we will be close to 125 this year.
 
We killed 4 in the barn in one night. Not as smart as I thought they were. Shoot one and the next comes out and so on. I thought they would go into hiding but not so. Never saw any again but maybe I just eliminted the stupid ones
 
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