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I hate raccoons...

buckeye_brian2
7 years ago

Well over the last 2-weeks I have lost 7 chickens. I lost 4 of them before I realized what was happening. I have a fairly large run and I do not count them every night I go and feed / collect eggs. I started setting out a live trap for them using the dead chicken carcass as bait. Works beautifully...but they must come in numbers. My trap only holds (1) coon at a time and I am still losing chickens each night.

I started this flock (3) years ago with 30-layers. Then a coon attack took me down to 23...then 17. It stayed at 17 for the longest time. Then a year ago another attack or two took me down to 13. Now I am down to 6-layers. Very frustrating. I know my flock is 3-years old and almost done with their "productive" lives so I was going to have to replace them soon anyway...but losing them to predators really gets my goat.

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