[TheForge] Fox news OT:

[Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu]

The wife is soft hearted, prefers quick and efficient.  We had geese for a while, but they wizened up.  Paid dane-geld to the coons.  Shut up when the coons came by and ate their food.  Sees that their squawking drew the attention of the coons from the dry food to the warm food<G>.

All the Best

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of peter fels & phoebe palmer
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Good storys!
We found raccoons make a fine soil amendment.
I don't like to get up at 4 AM; so i use the have-a-heart trap (to spare 
our cats)
  and then pop the coons at my leisure.
I too found that there are a near infinite supply of raccoons
and i only had a limited supply of chickens.

On 11/10/2010 11:57 AM, Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu wrote:
> Computer died, just now found this.
> 	I hunted varmints from the bedroom window for about 2 years.  The alarm would go off, I would check the color of the led, and know what window to shoot out of.  Found that predators tend to have several territories.  If they scare something up and don't get it, or are scared away, they will go somewhere else for a few nights.  Then 4-5 nights later, there they are back again.  Territories overlap, so if you have a large population you likely will see many different ones in a row.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:51 AM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Fox news
>
>
>> It makes me sick, 24 dead chickens.
> I know the feeling.  Since there's nothing to be done now, perhaps a
> little levity will help.
>
> Forty or so years ago, our hens were living in a disused VW Microbus,
> maybe a dozen and a half of them.  One morning we found several of
> them dead and one gone, evidence of a raccoon as the culprit.  He was
> back the next night and got some more.  Laid for him with a shotgun
> and a live hen staked out for bait.  Missed him in the total darkness,
> scared the daylights out of the bait chicken.  Must have scared, or at
> least mildly annoyed, the 'coon because he didn't return right away.
>
> A couple of months later, when there were big banks of snow along our
> narrow gravel road, I heard men's voices outside around 11:00 at night
> and went to investigate.  Two guys were digging their car out of the
> snow bank they'd ploughed into trying to miss a 'coon that was walking
> down the middle of the snowy road.  Dang, I thought, you coulda just,
> you know, *hit* him.
>
> A couple of nights later, I was driving home and there the SOB was,
> boldly huffing down the middle of the road toward our hen house.  And
> I buried our old Volvo deep in the snowbank trying to hit him.  Missed.
> Dang.  So then I had to get out the shovel and dig myself out, too.
> Double-dang.
>
> Next day, I followed the tracks.  The bastard was hiking nearly a mile
> along the middle of the road to get to the poultry counter.
>
> Well, now we no longer keep chickens and we live-trap the 'coons to
> keep them from devastating the corn.  2008 must have been a bumper year
> for 'em because we relocated 8 'coons to the other side of the river
> five miles away.  Only one this year so far.
>
> I kinda doubt that foxes will fall for a live trap, though.
>
>
>
> - Mike
>
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