Pesky Racoons

Anonymous-0 · Oct 23, 2008

Anybody got any food ideas for keeping racoons out of barns? I quit keeping cats to keep the mice away because the racoons would be drawn to the cat food I kept to feed the cats. I had even put the mouse bait in steel pipes because the darn racoons would eat the mouse bait like candy. And I don't think the poison hurt the coons.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 23, 2008

No market for the fur anymore?

fixerupper · Oct 23, 2008

Get a heavy pie pan, or hog pan, or something of the sort, pour a little mound of fly bait in there, pour a half can of coke on it and leave it where the coons can find it. In the morning the deceased coons won't be farther than ten feet from the pan. It'll get dogs too so be careful. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Oct 23, 2008

No food ideas but to get rid of Racoons I can whole heartedly recomment a pack of Airedale Terriors. They also get rid of the skunks and the teenage boys that come around bothering my daughter.

old · Oct 23, 2008

I tap and shoot them. Since I started doing that and then killing them I have very few of them.

Michael Soldan · Oct 24, 2008

Crystalized fly bait in a pie pan with coke or pepsi poured on it. You can pick them up in the morning and bury them...and do goooders..I won't allow racoons carrying disease and threat of rabies into my barn , around my cattle and cats..and I sleep very well at night!

1936 · Oct 24, 2008

Best bait in live trap is KFC chicken. Lock up your cats for the night.

Deano · Oct 24, 2008

Coons are sugar junkies. A box trap baited with marshmellows works great. Cats aren't interested and the coons can't resist. I usually put one in front of the trap and three more inside. Only catch is you can't put them too close to the sides or they pull them through the mesh. Shoot the ones you get, moving them just spreads disease and passes the problem on.

OliverGuy · Oct 24, 2008

I always use a live trap in case I get something else. I then open it up by the field with my 870 in hand. If they can make it to the woods before I get them, then good for them. After 40+ of them though, they haven"t gotten away in awhile. And if they do, I"ll see them again. I only had potatoes I dug from the garden and beer in the fridge in the barn one night a long time ago when I was looking for some bait. I put a couple chunks of potatoes in the trap, drank most of the beer, but poured just a little in cup and put it in the trap. Almost had a guaranteed coon in the morning.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 24, 2008

My dad and I used to trap and drown 'em, but it seemed like there were more to fill the vacancy! He found a female Shepard / Pit mix (she's small, lean, and looks more like a black, short haired Shepard) She plays withe cats, loves people, but has decimated the coon and Woodchuck population in one year. 7 chucks and 9 coons, and she's only had a good cut on her nose

IH2444 · Oct 24, 2008

I hear the skins are selling for $40 or so. I just shoot em and throw them over the hillside.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 24, 2008

Haven't seen a coon, skunk, coyote orstray dog near out barn since we got our LGD (Livestock Guard Dog). She's a Great Pyrennees (however you spell it) - a big white fluff ball that noses the kittens out of her food dish, but is He!! on coons.

Don-Wi · Oct 24, 2008

That's how we do it in the sweet corn patch. We buried about 10 of them this year, but when plowing the rest of the corn feild I found 5 more piles of bone & fur...

Donovan from Wisconsin

Anonymous-0 · Oct 24, 2008

Any body got a good idea for keeping racoons out of the White House???? Or should I say ramboons??/

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