How To KILL A Raccoon That's Raiding Your Garden

Started by tbone0106, August 24, 2011, 06:48:20 PM

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Eve

TBone --

Thank you for the welcome.  I'll make the concentrate stronger and try my luck.  Thanks for your sound advice.   This coon ate all my koi, shredded my liner and is a major neighborhood nuisance.  Now past tense, good.

Thank you again Darlin'

Eve

walkstall

Quote from: Eve on August 31, 2012, 05:11:56 PM
TBone --

Thank you for the welcome.  I'll make the concentrate stronger and try my luck.  Thanks for your sound advice.   This coon ate all my koi, shredded my liner and is a major neighborhood nuisance.  Now past tense, good.

Thank you again Darlin'

Eve

Welcome Eve also.....Always remember to wear rubber glove and do a good wash up after.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

Eve

Thank you also Walkstall for the kind welcome.  I haven't seen any signs of destruction over the past several days. Good.  I'd need to remove the existing liner in the pond, dig down another 2 feet, relay the liner, re-do the landscaping to permit the next group of koi a chance to go to the bottom of the pond when attacked. 

Then a neighbor mentioned using a black sort of screen over the top of the pond.  But these coons are SMART! and FAST READS!

I'm going to leave the pond as it is: no koi, and no coons.  Easy? I don't know. Any/all suggestions are welcomed.

Eve




Honeyphil57

Great info on GM and raccoons. I've lost 10% of my laying flock in 2 nights. Will this mix affect honeybees?

samgoober

Not sure about honeybees - Flies won't make it far though.

Also, I wanted to point out (because I said I would when I first joined this forum) what I'd learned about mixin' up some Golden Malrin, dog food, and Coke in a pan, and  leaving it in the vicinity of where ya think any four-legged varmits (coons, possums, etc) may infiltrate:

Now I can't say that I know PERSONALLY, nor that I've seen it with my OWN eyes, but I have it on good authority that mixin up some Golden Malrin (say, a cup or so) with about a cup or two of Coke, combined with some Gravy Train or similar dry dog food (about a cup or so of the  dog food), stirred around a bit, and left alone will not attract coons (and other varmits), but if they come, they will bite it. usually within about five feet of the container/pie pan holding the aforementioned concoction.

I have it on good authority that this works even after leaving the concoction out in the elements for a month or more - and that the dead varmits stink. Bad. So be sure to let your friend  know to check his garden frequently. I know that I would, if I was to put out something like this to keep those bastards out of my corn or other plants. Not that I would ever consider doing something like that.....

Good luck my friend

Sam
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not - Thomas Jefferson

Eve

Hi everyone -- again, thanks for your good advice and encouragement.   The count is now 9 raccoon.  I called the County "Animal Control" thinking they may want to help and step in with the disposal what with all their vans that patrol up/down local streets.   No, they don't.  I guess they're more concerned with cat/dog problems.

If I find a dead raccoon on my property, I'm to place it in a double lawn/leaf bag and into the garbage for pickup twice weekly.  And so I do.    Nobody's concerned about how the dead raccoons manage to find their way onto my property. 

Good moves,  win:win. 

tbone0106

Quote from: Honeyphil57 on September 15, 2012, 09:52:11 PM
Great info on GM and raccoons. I've lost 10% of my laying flock in 2 nights. Will this mix affect honeybees?

After two years of seeing the stuff used in the field, I can say that I've never seen a honeybee killed by it -- and I have a bee tree on my property. As samgoober pointed out, the stuff attracts and kills flies by the hundred, but attracts little else besides raccoons and the occasional opossum.

tbone0106

Quote from: Eve on September 16, 2012, 07:20:44 AM
Hi everyone -- again, thanks for your good advice and encouragement.   The count is now 9 raccoon.  I called the County "Animal Control" thinking they may want to help and step in with the disposal what with all their vans that patrol up/down local streets.   No, they don't.  I guess they're more concerned with cat/dog problems.

If I find a dead raccoon on my property, I'm to place it in a double lawn/leaf bag and into the garbage for pickup twice weekly.  And so I do.    Nobody's concerned about how the dead raccoons manage to find their way onto my property. 

Good moves,  win:win.

Excellent! My good buddy, the one who lives very close to me and uses that stuff, has killed 14 'coons and 4 'possums with it this year. He has an easier time with disposal, though, living as he does kinda out in farm country.

It's a bit funny how they're instructing you to put the corpses at the curb in "double bags," etc. The guy in the truck will have no idea what's in the bag, and that dead 'coon will go straight into the general landfill along with all the newspapers and chicken bones and empty water bottles.

JustKari

Quote from: tbone0106 on September 16, 2012, 01:10:22 PM
Excellent! My good buddy, the one who lives very close to me and uses that stuff, has killed 14 'coons and 4 'possums with it this year. He has an easier time with disposal, though, living as he does kinda out in farm country.

It's a bit funny how they're instructing you to put the corpses at the curb in "double bags," etc. The guy in the truck will have no idea what's in the bag, and that dead 'coon will go straight into the general landfill along with all the newspapers and chicken bones and empty water bottles.

It is funny, we are having a general trash rolloff delivered to our house tomorrow for cleanup before construction, on the list of things that were okay to put in the rolloff was "animal carcasses".  It  made me think of this thread when I read it.

Honeyphil57

One raccoon a day for 3 days. That stuff works!! Could we get select liberals to sip a bit?

tbone0106

Quote from: Honeyphil57 on September 21, 2012, 07:51:10 PM
One raccoon a day for 3 days. That stuff works!! Could we get select liberals to sip a bit?

Not nice! We must strive at all times to be nice, and you're not being nice.

Kari, you're having a roll-off delivered for PRE-construction? There was a lot of demolition then?

samgoober

Quote from: tbone0106 on September 21, 2012, 07:57:36 PM
Not nice! We must strive at all times to be nice, and you're not being nice.

It's a lot nicer to just let the government do it for you. ie.  Build a city five feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats.

~ Sam
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not - Thomas Jefferson

JustKari

Quote from: tbone0106 on September 21, 2012, 07:57:36 PM
Not nice! We must strive at all times to be nice, and you're not being nice.

Kari, you're having a roll-off delivered for PRE-construction? There was a lot of demolition then?
No, it is a general trash rolloff.  My mom gutted the inside before realising the job was more than she could handle, but while she was taking out plaster and all that, it got filled with tons of other junk.  Hubby and I have to go through the whole house and toss what is trash, and store what is treasure, so that the contractors can work.

Solar

Quote from: samgoober on September 22, 2012, 08:48:52 AM
It's a lot nicer to just let the government do it for you. ie.  Build a city five feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats.

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MountainStateMan

Wow!  this stuff works and fast.  I took out two this week.  I suggest using a flat pie pan, or bowl.  Fill the bottom and add can of Coke. Embed it in the ground so they can't knock it over, and put a can of sardines in the mix.  They can't resist!  Both raccoons didn't make it past 20 ft.