Lady behind me wakes up at 2am to feed them. They all pile up on her backporch and another neighbor told me she has hand fed them in the past. They tear up my yard looking for grubs which is amazing because she feeds them cat food and they are all so obese they wobble.
We had a senile older woman that lived across the alley , from our old house. She would put out food for the stray cats , at night, and the "pretty black and white kitties".. she was feeding the skunks. The stray cats and skunks would get into fights, over the cat food she had left out. All of the yards in the neighborhood smelled like skunk , everytime it happened.
Her son finally stepped in, after she started locking herself out of her house. At first he made her wear a key around her neck, but eventually , he realized she needed to be moved to a nursing home.
Thats kinda sad. But also a bit funny that she thought the skunks were cats too. Isnt there a looney toons cartoon where an old lady takes in a skunk thinking its a cat?
Bro you live near my mom? She thankfully has stopped this after they kept coming back year after year more and more and she got worried about bringing other predators
You may have skunks as well. We have a variety of wildlife and the skunks are the ones that tear up our lawn in search of of grubs. If you put down grub killer, they will look elsewhere.
There is no ācureā for rabies. If you get bitten by an animal that is at risk of carrying rabies, you are given a rabies vaccine, which acts as a post-exposure prophylactic. Rabies shots are no fun, that part is true, 4 doses over 2 weeks.
This is partly true.
If you can't ascertain the animal is not rabid (verified vaccination status and watch for signs of sickness in domestic animals or a captured or dead and tested wild animal) then you need to get rabies vaccine.
Rabies treatment is two parts.
If you haven't already been given a prophylactic dose (veterinarians and others may have been, and you would know) you will need rabies immune globulin. This is dosed based upon body weight and at least a portion of it will be injected into or near the wound site(s). This helps to "block" the rabies virus so the second part can have time to take effect. This can be quite painful as it is thicker than most "normal" vaccines, and depending on the nature of your wound and how sensitive that area may be.
You will also be given the rabies vaccine designed to spur your immune system to produce rabies virus antibodies. You will receive an initial dose on the day you are treated. This is Day 0. You will get 3 more doses on Day 3, Day 7, and Day 14. If you're immunocompromised, you may get another dose on Day 21.
So you will receive a minimum of five injections and perhaps several more. The globulin is the more painful part - the other injections are similar to any other injectable vaccine.
Technically there is a cure, just no post-symptom cure. There are a few people that have survived after symptoms appear but their cures have not been repeatable with reliable results. The Milwaukee Protocol is no longer recommend, for example. But Iāve read thereās a proof of concept post symptom cure thatās worked on lab mice developed recently, so maybe hope on the horizon.
I had something killing all my chickens and thought it was a coyote sneaking in. Ā Ended up putting a full net over their pen and the next day I caught a Coopers Hawk.Ā
Damn was he pissed. Ā
Be careful OP. I had a problematic groundhog in my yard and set a trap like this. Caught a raccoon and called my local wildlife department about how/where to release it and they said it was a $10K fine if I released a raccoon on public land. This was in Pennsylvania
Unfortunate reality of having chickens. We lost quite a few in a single night last year when the chickens rusted up in trees before they had learned to go in the coop. I set traps for the next 10 days until I finally stopped catching raccoons. I caught three in one night. Ended up catching nine of them total. They became part of the Earthās lifecycle.
It's actually illegal to transplant wildlife in a lot of places.
In my state you have two options: release it where you caught it, or shoot it. You used to be able to legally toss the cage in a pond and drown it, but they outlawed that a few years ago.
If you're in the country you're usually just making it some other farmer's problem too. It sucks but if you want to keep your chickens you're shooting racoons.
I read a guide about raising chickens. One thing it said, be prepared, you WILL have chickens die in a brutal fashion. Racoon, fox, dog, future serial killer - chickens have many possible prey and little they can do about it.
Tbh I feel like it's even worse that dinosaurs used to exist, and a bunch of hairless 2 legged apes succeeded them as the world's most successful apex predator.
Roosters are oddly protective when hens are targeted or mine is just weird. A dog once sneaked under our fence to attack our hens. When I heard a ruckus I quickly came out, saw the dog trying to drag a hen away immediately followed by the rooster attacking the dog and pecking him brutally, saving the hen and buying us enough time to reach them and chase the dog away lol
You can make a very secure run. For example, don't use chicken wire. It only keeps chickens in. It keeps nothing out. I'd really like to see the protection OP is giving the birds. I'm positive I could find many weaknesses. And removing established 1 raccoon, does little no nothing. If this was his/her territory, you are shaking things up and 2 will return in its place. If they don't secure the coop, this does absolutely nothing.
One got our silkie last year. My daughter devastated. My husband caught it and released it in the park a few miles away.
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Relocating wild animals is actually illegal in most US states because it can spread diseases and the animal usually doesn't survive an unfamiliar environment
100% and itās the same in Canada. Essentially giving/making a problem elsewhere. Watch those fingers and have and escape route when you release. Sometime they will double back on you. Best of luck!
I have caught a few in my yard and I just spray them with the hose in the cage, bang on the cage and shake it around, yell at it, give him a couple of good sprays at the snoot. Then let them go, they hiss at me from the trees but have never come in my yard again.
Wildlife specialist told me relocated animals die 99% of the time because you have dropped them in unfamiliar territory that belongs to some other animal-animals.
They may hate me, but they are alive and only walk along my fence, never in my yard.
>and I just spray them with the hose in the cage, bang on the cage and shake it around, yell at it, give him a couple of good sprays at the snoot.
Guantanamo aint shit.
Iām laughing my ass off. I think overall you made a good decision, but you have to admit you definitely commit some war crimes to psychologically scar that raccoon from ever coming near you again. Itās going to tell its childrenās childrenās about the torture it underwent and they will all steer clear.
We had bad skunk issues in our yard and I trapped one and while relocating it about 20 miles in deep rural TN, it ran into the woods, did a U turn and ran straight past me into the road and got run over by a pickup truck. Yep, your assessment is correct.
I thought this was fucked yo at first but you started to win me over by the end. Youāre probably seen as an absolute villain in the raccoon community.
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Ok, maybe I agree with your unconventional methods then. š I mean, why would I come back to your yard after that? As long as in OPās case the raccoon doesnāt view it as the cost of chicken.
Personally I think you should have led with your second paragraph. I was like what on earth are you suggesting at first lol.Ā I suppose if the mild animal abuse allows the raccoon to live as opposed to relocating in most likely dying. I think I kind of can get behind this. Better than just exterminating them.Ā
I feel like this is the best way. While I completely get being pissed a raccoon is eating your chickens, we must remember they're not doing it out of malice or because it's somehow personal. They're simply doing it because they are hungry and chickens can be an easy meal. I hate when coyotes get a neighborhood cat, but I have to keep in mind that is in fact the natural circle of life no matter how much we try to protect them.
Or just car food. I was in a fairly small stretch of rural Pennsylvania for a *single day* and saw four roadkill cats. Rural Britain had cars too, so this applies to that lot as well
I had to do this with a very aggressive feral cat who was coming around and attacking our semi-feral cat (who is feral enough that she canāt tolerate being inside full time). I didnāt use a hose tho, just a spray bottle, and i didnt bang the cage, just acted like a fool outside of it and banged some things near it, hissed at it a couple times haha it rarely comes around now and now our semi-feral has outgrown it and learned to chase it off
i thought you were joking, then i thought you were being a jack ass, then i realized just how perfect your plan was. maybe you should piss on the raccoons face instead of the water hose, then get down to its level and just laugh and point at it before you let it free
I had a raccoon attack our chicken once. One of our hens acted a lot like a rooster most of the time and defended the other two. She fought off the raccoon protecting her sisters from even a single scratch but we had to euthanize her due to her injuries.
Part of having livestock, especially chickens, is coming to terms with the fact that they might be brutally butchered by wild animals. Thatās just nature. Itās not their fault we fragmented all their land and made life harder for them.
It always does. No matter how secure you make it, one particularly crafty critter will find a way in and get you to make it even more secure, somehow. It's a never ending battle, and you can't win.
Same thing happened to my friend, except whatever it was got all his chickens. Now he has a decked out Omelet Chicken coop, his wife made him buy it after the devastating crime scene was found. It was almost $2k lol and he still added more protections like even more underground protection around it than it came with.
Been doing that for years, these guys are crafty motherfuckers. It's a constant battle. Last year it was minks trying to dig under the fence, so i buried the fence a few feet deep, with a 90 degree bend towards the outside so that if they dig they'll hit this part of the fence first and give up. Havent had problems with them since. Now it's the raccons' turn it seems.
Have you thought about having a rooster with your hens. My buddy keeps chickens and he has a rooster with them. That think even scared off a local fox that tried to break in. Roosters are viscous things when it comes to defending their hens. Prior to that he lost a few to foxes and one to an eagle.
Damn this thread makes me feel like a savage. I would've killed any wild animal that came for my pets or livestock. I truly don't mean this as a dig, but it's a privileged time we live in, that we can afford to care so much about the welfare of this raccoon.Ā
Yeah, like, I get that it sucks for OP and I'm really sad for the chickens but the raccoon isn't an asshole for being born a predator. If anything, I'm really surprised to see a raccoon actually try to hunt something instead of scavenge but they're still omnivores who will hunt if the opportunity presents, I suppose. I saw one catch a squirrel once and it was crazy.
Iām so sorry for your loss. I admire your use of a havahart trap. I just drove a real asshole of a field mouse two miles away in one after he spent the past week defecating on my stove. Cute bastard.Ā
Careful OP. That raccoon looks like it will come back from the woods, with the woods. 
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And this is why I love Reddit. Because the original gif wasnāt bonkers enoughā¦
Lady behind me wakes up at 2am to feed them. They all pile up on her backporch and another neighbor told me she has hand fed them in the past. They tear up my yard looking for grubs which is amazing because she feeds them cat food and they are all so obese they wobble.
God forbid if that lady passed or moves away...one hungry tribe of trash panda's.
If she sells that house, oh boy
The new owner is in for a hell of a surprise!
āI justā¦ I donāt know what to do anymore. Theyāre here EVERY. NIGHT.ā
Gonna need a space suit just to go get the mail
She leaves the house to the trash pandas
This sounds like the brilliant long con of a woman who hates her neighbours
Trash Pandas! š¤£
A minor league baseball team named themselves Trash Pandas.
We had a senile older woman that lived across the alley , from our old house. She would put out food for the stray cats , at night, and the "pretty black and white kitties".. she was feeding the skunks. The stray cats and skunks would get into fights, over the cat food she had left out. All of the yards in the neighborhood smelled like skunk , everytime it happened. Her son finally stepped in, after she started locking herself out of her house. At first he made her wear a key around her neck, but eventually , he realized she needed to be moved to a nursing home.
Thats kinda sad. But also a bit funny that she thought the skunks were cats too. Isnt there a looney toons cartoon where an old lady takes in a skunk thinking its a cat?
Pepe Le Pew
My mom does this. She has like 14 raccoons and a possum she feeds nightly, as well as cats. Feeds em all cat food. Hand fed.
Your mom is apparently my neighbor
Bro you live near my mom? She thankfully has stopped this after they kept coming back year after year more and more and she got worried about bringing other predators
Get yourself some beneficial nematodes and spray down your yard with em. Coons wonāt tear it up if the grubs are dead and gone.
please tell me when her house goes up for sale because that sounds like built in friends
You may have skunks as well. We have a variety of wildlife and the skunks are the ones that tear up our lawn in search of of grubs. If you put down grub killer, they will look elsewhere.
Disgusting animal abuse that fucks up the neighborhood, gotta love it
 Think Iāll take two chickens - The ~~hound~~ Raccoon
Well done.
He's served his time. You're a good person for setting him free later.
Well, he seems to disagree with you, he is PISSED
Just reach in there and boop the snoop and heāll calm down
That's very tempting but i'd rather not get rabies or something
Rabies is completely curable no worries there!
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Time to carb load
mmm fettucini alfredo
It would be chicken fettuccine alfredo if not for this little bastard.
i just spit up my fucking drink
Eat it in front of the little bastard.
Man i miss alfredo so much
i just made some yesterday
*I LOOK AMAZINGGGG*
Heres an idea , let that animal lose behind that run!
Plot twist; you have to escape all the raccoons with rabies
This is a good thing your doing running 5000 miles for a disease that kills 10ās of people very year..
Isn't the cure for rabies extremely painful and squicky?
There is no ācureā for rabies. If you get bitten by an animal that is at risk of carrying rabies, you are given a rabies vaccine, which acts as a post-exposure prophylactic. Rabies shots are no fun, that part is true, 4 doses over 2 weeks.
This is partly true. If you can't ascertain the animal is not rabid (verified vaccination status and watch for signs of sickness in domestic animals or a captured or dead and tested wild animal) then you need to get rabies vaccine. Rabies treatment is two parts. If you haven't already been given a prophylactic dose (veterinarians and others may have been, and you would know) you will need rabies immune globulin. This is dosed based upon body weight and at least a portion of it will be injected into or near the wound site(s). This helps to "block" the rabies virus so the second part can have time to take effect. This can be quite painful as it is thicker than most "normal" vaccines, and depending on the nature of your wound and how sensitive that area may be. You will also be given the rabies vaccine designed to spur your immune system to produce rabies virus antibodies. You will receive an initial dose on the day you are treated. This is Day 0. You will get 3 more doses on Day 3, Day 7, and Day 14. If you're immunocompromised, you may get another dose on Day 21. So you will receive a minimum of five injections and perhaps several more. The globulin is the more painful part - the other injections are similar to any other injectable vaccine.
Technically there is a cure, just no post-symptom cure. There are a few people that have survived after symptoms appear but their cures have not been repeatable with reliable results. The Milwaukee Protocol is no longer recommend, for example. But Iāve read thereās a proof of concept post symptom cure thatās worked on lab mice developed recently, so maybe hope on the horizon.
The way to get rabies is typically also very painful and, perhaps, squicky.
The shots are still a real bitch though, it's best to avoid it altogether.
Take a rabies shot first, then boop the snoot
Then take several rabies shots later
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I had something killing all my chickens and thought it was a coyote sneaking in. Ā Ended up putting a full net over their pen and the next day I caught a Coopers Hawk.Ā Damn was he pissed. Ā
"Pissed" is just all raptors' default state.
***Pissed" is just all raptors' default state.*** I untangled him from the netting and was carrying him out....ooooh the death stare
Speaking of piss -- put down a tarp or some big plastic leaf bags in your car under the cage, so it doesn't wind up pissing all over it.
Pro tip right there
don't worry he'll be back
I drove one three miles away and it was back the same day.
if someone drove you 3 miles away you'd still make it home too š
Yeah, in like less than an hour if you walk at a normal pace. I wouldn't drop one off any closer than like 20 miles away.
Be careful OP. I had a problematic groundhog in my yard and set a trap like this. Caught a raccoon and called my local wildlife department about how/where to release it and they said it was a $10K fine if I released a raccoon on public land. This was in Pennsylvania
Unfortunate reality of having chickens. We lost quite a few in a single night last year when the chickens rusted up in trees before they had learned to go in the coop. I set traps for the next 10 days until I finally stopped catching raccoons. I caught three in one night. Ended up catching nine of them total. They became part of the Earthās lifecycle.
Seems like it would be easier just to get a guard donkey.
'part of the Earth's life cycle.' šµ
Racoon stew.
"You probably got a tapeworm, that stuff is loaded with parasites!"
It's actually illegal to transplant wildlife in a lot of places. In my state you have two options: release it where you caught it, or shoot it. You used to be able to legally toss the cage in a pond and drown it, but they outlawed that a few years ago.
If you're in the country you're usually just making it some other farmer's problem too. It sucks but if you want to keep your chickens you're shooting racoons.
I read a guide about raising chickens. One thing it said, be prepared, you WILL have chickens die in a brutal fashion. Racoon, fox, dog, future serial killer - chickens have many possible prey and little they can do about it.
Imagine your ancestors being fucking dinosaurs and now youāre one of the most killed animals on the planet
Whatās rly grim is if you think about the fact we make them into dinonuggies..
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Damn, they're right.
thats so sad
Tbh I feel like it's even worse that dinosaurs used to exist, and a bunch of hairless 2 legged apes succeeded them as the world's most successful apex predator.
All because of a flying rock of all things
Humans have really great aim
Everything likes chicken šš
Yeah thatās an animal that every culture on the planet has found to be fucking delicious
>chickens have many possible ~~prey~~ Predators*
Roosters are oddly protective when hens are targeted or mine is just weird. A dog once sneaked under our fence to attack our hens. When I heard a ruckus I quickly came out, saw the dog trying to drag a hen away immediately followed by the rooster attacking the dog and pecking him brutally, saving the hen and buying us enough time to reach them and chase the dog away lol
That's the point of having a rooster.
You can make a very secure run. For example, don't use chicken wire. It only keeps chickens in. It keeps nothing out. I'd really like to see the protection OP is giving the birds. I'm positive I could find many weaknesses. And removing established 1 raccoon, does little no nothing. If this was his/her territory, you are shaking things up and 2 will return in its place. If they don't secure the coop, this does absolutely nothing.
There is no fencing that can protect them?
something will always get in
The list of animals that don't eat chicken is pretty short. Chickens themselves are not on that list.Ā
One got our silkie last year. My daughter devastated. My husband caught it and released it in the park a few miles away. https://preview.redd.it/6l4i73usle5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d209e6794634646d39acac3ae065bcb66fe4343
When I saw the name "silkie", that almost sounded like Teen Titans for a second šš
If it was that silkie then the raccoon would not have stood a chance.
Relocating wild animals is actually illegal in most US states because it can spread diseases and the animal usually doesn't survive an unfamiliar environment
100% and itās the same in Canada. Essentially giving/making a problem elsewhere. Watch those fingers and have and escape route when you release. Sometime they will double back on you. Best of luck!
I have caught a few in my yard and I just spray them with the hose in the cage, bang on the cage and shake it around, yell at it, give him a couple of good sprays at the snoot. Then let them go, they hiss at me from the trees but have never come in my yard again. Wildlife specialist told me relocated animals die 99% of the time because you have dropped them in unfamiliar territory that belongs to some other animal-animals. They may hate me, but they are alive and only walk along my fence, never in my yard.
>and I just spray them with the hose in the cage, bang on the cage and shake it around, yell at it, give him a couple of good sprays at the snoot. Guantanamo aint shit.
Deadass, brother is out here committing psychological war crimes against raccoons in his backyard lmao š¦
MF over here wateboarding racoons lol
Whereās the money Lebowski
I think it's down there somewhere, let me take another look
Do I look married to you? The toilet seatās up, man!
Itās down there somewhere, let me take another look
Dead. ššššš
Stacking the cages in a pyramid and posing over them with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
With an American flag blowing in the wind behind him
Lot of raccoons with the thousand yard stare in this guy's 'hood
Bro's doing abu ghraib for racoons
I didn't show it pictures of me killing its mom, I scared it so it wouldn't come back but still be ALIVE
Iām laughing my ass off. I think overall you made a good decision, but you have to admit you definitely commit some war crimes to psychologically scar that raccoon from ever coming near you again. Itās going to tell its childrenās childrenās about the torture it underwent and they will all steer clear.
Where is the money lebownsky. #WHERE IT IS
We had bad skunk issues in our yard and I trapped one and while relocating it about 20 miles in deep rural TN, it ran into the woods, did a U turn and ran straight past me into the road and got run over by a pickup truck. Yep, your assessment is correct.
lmfao.
I thought this was fucked yo at first but you started to win me over by the end. Youāre probably seen as an absolute villain in the raccoon community.
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Beautifully staged! Hereās your doot.
Ok, maybe I agree with your unconventional methods then. š I mean, why would I come back to your yard after that? As long as in OPās case the raccoon doesnāt view it as the cost of chicken.
Iām gonna try this. Maybe Iāll just let water slowly drip on it while I play baby shark on a loop.
Ah, the ancient Chinese torture method
Personally I think you should have led with your second paragraph. I was like what on earth are you suggesting at first lol.Ā I suppose if the mild animal abuse allows the raccoon to live as opposed to relocating in most likely dying. I think I kind of can get behind this. Better than just exterminating them.Ā
I mean, itās either that or the raccoon eats chicken heads. Pretty sure the chickens are all for the animal abuse.
Is it still animal abuse if it's protecting animals?
I feel like this is the best way. While I completely get being pissed a raccoon is eating your chickens, we must remember they're not doing it out of malice or because it's somehow personal. They're simply doing it because they are hungry and chickens can be an easy meal. I hate when coyotes get a neighborhood cat, but I have to keep in mind that is in fact the natural circle of life no matter how much we try to protect them.
As far as Iām concerned letting your cats roam free outside is accepting that they might be coyote food
Or just car food. I was in a fairly small stretch of rural Pennsylvania for a *single day* and saw four roadkill cats. Rural Britain had cars too, so this applies to that lot as well
Yup. I do not understand people who let their cats out if they aren't barn cats with an actual job.
A lotta people will prolly disagree, but I think this is a good method. Raccon stays alive, in the area, but gets the harsh but needed lesson.
I love this idea but with my neighbor feeding them Iām not sure it would deter them.
Have you considered catching your neighbors and applying the same treatment?
Well, they'd at least avoid your yard.
Water boarding racoons was not something i thought i would read
That's actually a really good method. Keeps them in the area they're familiar with, but now they know not to mess around in your yard.
I am traumatized for the poor raccoon! Not really, just laughed until I had to run to the bathroom with my knees squeezed together.
Dick Chaney would be proud.
I had to do this with a very aggressive feral cat who was coming around and attacking our semi-feral cat (who is feral enough that she canāt tolerate being inside full time). I didnāt use a hose tho, just a spray bottle, and i didnt bang the cage, just acted like a fool outside of it and banged some things near it, hissed at it a couple times haha it rarely comes around now and now our semi-feral has outgrown it and learned to chase it off
i thought you were joking, then i thought you were being a jack ass, then i realized just how perfect your plan was. maybe you should piss on the raccoons face instead of the water hose, then get down to its level and just laugh and point at it before you let it free
Dafuq
Well ducking fuck
Coward is wearing a mask to prevent being identified.
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 His squad coming after you
Pom Poko. Wild movie
Screenshot to watch
Why did I think they were using their tails?
Look I watched this as a kid and it wasnt till HS did I figure it out. š š¤£
I saw a **Tanuki** (dog, not raccoon) at my in-laws in Japan last month. Interesting!
I had a raccoon attack our chicken once. One of our hens acted a lot like a rooster most of the time and defended the other two. She fought off the raccoon protecting her sisters from even a single scratch but we had to euthanize her due to her injuries.
Part of having livestock, especially chickens, is coming to terms with the fact that they might be brutally butchered by wild animals. Thatās just nature. Itās not their fault we fragmented all their land and made life harder for them.
That's why they need to secure their coop. It's obviously not secure.
Trash bro was just letting you know your chicken security needs some work.
It always does. No matter how secure you make it, one particularly crafty critter will find a way in and get you to make it even more secure, somehow. It's a never ending battle, and you can't win.
Thatās natural for the little guy. Unfortunately thatās the way of the animal kingdom.
Dude gives zero fucks. Look at him.
Fucking trash panda assassin douche fluff.
I'm coming for you tonight, big talker...
Ima just be here
Bring it, fuzzy. I've got two *extremely* lazy cats that will not even close to kick your ass. For reals.
Chickens are tasty he couldn't help it.
Make sure you just drive an hour to drop him off, this guy looks like heās ready to get revenge
Nope, this is illegal in the United States and most of Canada. And rightfully so.
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Yes those are literally the same exact scenarios LMAO. Fucking redditors
Wildlife doing wildlife things can't be the asshole.
Same thing happened to my friend, except whatever it was got all his chickens. Now he has a decked out Omelet Chicken coop, his wife made him buy it after the devastating crime scene was found. It was almost $2k lol and he still added more protections like even more underground protection around it than it came with.
Thanks for not killing him for basically "Trasha Panda gawn Trash Panda". OP is a good bloke.
Sounds like you need to look into predator proofing your enclosure.
Been doing that for years, these guys are crafty motherfuckers. It's a constant battle. Last year it was minks trying to dig under the fence, so i buried the fence a few feet deep, with a 90 degree bend towards the outside so that if they dig they'll hit this part of the fence first and give up. Havent had problems with them since. Now it's the raccons' turn it seems.
Have you thought about having a rooster with your hens. My buddy keeps chickens and he has a rooster with them. That think even scared off a local fox that tried to break in. Roosters are viscous things when it comes to defending their hens. Prior to that he lost a few to foxes and one to an eagle.
It's definitely a constant battle!
#PEDRO PEDRO PEDRO PEDRO
Damn this thread makes me feel like a savage. I would've killed any wild animal that came for my pets or livestock. I truly don't mean this as a dig, but it's a privileged time we live in, that we can afford to care so much about the welfare of this raccoon.Ā
He didnāt do anything wrong he has a family to feed :(
He's just trying to survive
Yeah, like, I get that it sucks for OP and I'm really sad for the chickens but the raccoon isn't an asshole for being born a predator. If anything, I'm really surprised to see a raccoon actually try to hunt something instead of scavenge but they're still omnivores who will hunt if the opportunity presents, I suppose. I saw one catch a squirrel once and it was crazy.
His cousins and the possums, hawks and coyotes around here make free range chickens nothing but a smorgasbord. We finally gave up.
Can't prove it
We lost 6 ā¹ļø I was devastated!
Kinda what they do
Hopefully You find a way reinforce your chicken Coop .
Be careful OP, he looks like saying "you're next". Good on you for being kind though.
Make a hat out of him.
Gotta cage the racoons so be able to cage free chicken
My man needed those chickens to pay back an angry bear.
What were you gonna do with them? Send them to a retirement community?
Bad dog
Take him at least 10 kilometres away so he wonāt find his way back
Thank you for not killing the raccoon OP. I wouldnāt blame if you did, but Iām really glad you didnāt.
Had a mink wipe out 27 chickens in 1 night.Ā
Iām so sorry for your loss. I admire your use of a havahart trap. I just drove a real asshole of a field mouse two miles away in one after he spent the past week defecating on my stove. Cute bastard.Ā
He'll be back.
He or she could've at least asked first wtf ?
I have several coons around never took my chickens, some have gone missing but after watching camera footage it was revealed a fox was the culprit
homie rolled up on what he thought was a jack in the box drive thru, but didnāt get it āto goā
* https://preview.redd.it/f4vinv8y0h5d1.png?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18422228830127814c6db654289bb9ea2605f4e7 You sure they weren't zombies?
āWhat murdaaaahs?ā
Let the chickens have him. Vicious lil buggers lol
How many eggs does little asshole have to lay before it's paid off it's debt?
Eat him