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Dave H (MI)

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Well, as I am working on the pilot for my reality show about the trials of keeping turkeys alive with all the increasing predators...I actually have caught something. One medium sized raccoon. Lanky and mean acting so could definitely be a suspect but I was really expecting a bigger animal. This would explain why it would leave the big tom on the lower perch and go up to the hens on the high perch but gee, this thing is hardly worth all the hoopla. Maybe if I photo shop a picture like that guy did with the feral hog down south...

I'm going to keep setting the traps and hope for something more believable.

Almost forgot...neighbor up the road was out with a flash light last night for hours. Seems his little dog has gone missing. That ain't good.
 
You're gonna have me rolling on the floor. Not because of your trails and tribulations,but a story that a woman in Byrdstown Tennessee was telling my wife.

He daughter's pet chicken came up missing. She said the girl called it Chick-Chick. Said she carried that thing all over,even made clothes for it,but the girl was beside herself because she couldn't find it. She said she told the girl it must have run away,but she said she knew darned well that old coon out in the barn got it. She just didn't have the heart to tell her. The wife tried to walk away,but after all the hoopla about carrying it around and making clothes for it,the woman said "But the girl's 12 years old!".
 
There is never just a single coon around... never. Keep the trap out, you will catch more. Medium sized? Lanky? This time of year? You caught a kit. He has 2-5 brothers and sisters out there as well as mom and dad.... and a dozen aunts and uncles... and about 40 cousins....

Have fun... Did I mention to keep the trap out?
 
Sad thing is, WE have a whole country full of kids like that. 12 year Amish girl would be out there cleaning the chicking coop, Gathering eggs, Feeding, Killing, Cooking the Damm things fer supper. That"s after they help clean house, Help wash duds on a Maytag wringing washer and take care of 4 or 5 younger brothers and sisters.
 
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I sometimes think that we push kids to grow up and give up childish things much earlier than might be good for them. Afterall playing and pretending is beneficial also. Age appropriate responsibility is fine. Sometimes we must remember, they are ONLY 12. Just my two cents worth. An old Father who pushed and expected a little much from my children. gobble
 
I think my record for one year is just shy of thirty, but I always carried my old Marlin and a flashlight when I went out at night and more than once I took out mom and her whole litter. Those who think ill of me should be informed that the kits can get in thru very small openings in buildings and are just as good at killing as mom is. Since the daughters have taken over most of those night chores they go unarmed. They are not as diligent with the box traps as I was either. I'll keep trying.
 
Just as likely my older girl will come home tonight and shoot the thing before I get around to it. I THINK someone recently suggested I was anti female but nothing could be further from the truth. I run my place with the help of two daughters and God could not have given me better helpers if he gave me sons. I wouldn't trade them. They grew up baling hay and raising animals. They were never asked to do anything...if they showed an interest they were included. Otherwise they had their Barbies. They both know the name of every tool in the box and can find most parts on an engine...planter...disk, plow, baler, rake.......

You can't let them stay completely innocent in this world but you can't steal their youth from them either. Hard thing to balance anymore.

Maybe I will beat her to shooting that thing. I have that German made Browning SA I bought last March. Still haven't tried it.
 
Like Granny Clampett used to say though,13 and 14 a girl's in her prime,15 and 16,she's still got time. 17 and 18 she's almost done,19 and 20,Pa get yer gun.
 
Last week, several chickens turned up partially eaten. They were attacked on the roosts in the chicken house and pulled outside into the chicken yard. One night a smaller hen was pulled over the fence, but the next night a larger type hen must have been too big to carry over. I started shutting doors, but it happened again. I then shut the chicken house up tight and set one of these humane traps- not knowing for sure what the varmint might be. The next AM a big coon was in the trap. He bled a lot from the bullet.
 
I guess this stuff about the appropriate age for kids to start helping with chores kind of hits home with me. I was the son of older parents and a Dad with a lot of health problems. My brother and I were doing almost all of the farm work from an early age. It didn't hurt either one of us. We have both been successful in life, the lessons learned have served us well over the years. Maybe, just maybe, a lot of our newest generation would be better off if they had a little hard work and adversity in front of them instead of an IPad and a couch. Just my rant for today.
 
Oh my,you should have know that would get a rise. I totaly agree children benifit from play and pretend,actualy isn't that true of adults as well. BUT!!!! Ya but everyone needs to learn responsibility and how to perform meaningful work before they are 25 with 2 kids and never will learn.
 
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[/url]Motion Sensitive Coon Detector by nobite2012, on Flickr[/img]

Years ago I had a coon problem. Well, by my ignorance I had created this problem due to my outside cats. Couldn't keep the coons out of their feed dishes. Picking up the dishes at night didn't help, just moved the coon attacks to earlier in the day.

This device helped. Motion sensor turned on the light and also sent electricity to the second light fixture which was attached by a long cord to a radio. Me, sleeping on a couch, would awake to the sound of the radio and see a coon illuminated under the light. Simple procedure from there. Cleaned up the problem.
 
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