Help with raccoons

Corso312

Corso312

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Neem worked good for me, nothing seemed to like that smell... My aunt had a little pond on her property n it had turtles..they would lay eggs in her mulch around the house in shallow holes they dug n I'd put milk crates over the holes I could find with a heavy rock on top for a week n that seemed to work good at keeping coons n skunks from eating the eggs.
 
tripleD

tripleD

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William1976 said:
I will give it a try, you know what I was thinking is to put a 45lb weight over plant from my weight bench, you know, slide it through the hole. Then once it is established a little bit slide weight off before it gets to big to. I know they are stout little creatures but idk if they could toss around a 45. What do u think?
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If you only have one raccoon that's been digging then that might work short term, but if you have several of them then you are gna need to either:
A) get rid of raccoons by trapping or killing
B) raccoon proof your area w hardware cloth, predator urine, electric fence, etc
and you might try putting some food down in area as far from your grow as possible to get them to focus on something else, in addition to the other steps...
Or
C)JUST MOVE! :P

Good Luck!
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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Traps with fish inside for bait...chicken wire and all the rest of the things are good ideas...but between coons and bears I use to have a pile of problems with them upsetting my gals. ..I always take my dog with me for one and let him shit and piss around my plants. ..not on them of course. ..and another thing I do is take ciggerrett butts and put them in a circle around my plants..it keeps deer and other animals away... but those damn coons won't stop...they are very curious animals ...especially when you use fish like myself....I what I have been doing is taking these stainless square grate type things I found and connecting them together ..I will put a picture of them up soon..I have them hid in the woods ...but what I do is get some horseshoe nails and get something like a square post for a rail fence and make a square or rectangle around my loose soil ...I keep it a few inches above the soil where they can't quite get down to dig a hole..I connect the squares together and run them right up to the stock ..not right aginst it but close to it...I leave the squares tied together with something I can loosen and slide out as the plants grow...I guess you can do the same thing with chicken wire...I just like to leave it closer to the ground incase someone might see some chicken wire or w.e you use sticking up a few feet in the air from a makeshift fence..I just seem to think that would stick out more in my situation.. I'll try to get a picture up someday of how I do it...now if someone knows how to completely get rid of bears I'd like to know...besides death...if they smell food they are coming to check
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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On btw the horseshoe nails are for the squares that are connected to the post that run around the outside of the loose soil...I'm sure u figured that out but I do tend to be confusing sometimes
 
William1976

William1976

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GoRealUhGro said:
Traps with fish inside for bait...chicken wire and all the rest of the things are good ideas...but between coons and bears I use to have a pile of problems with them upsetting my gals. ..I always take my dog with me for one and let him shit and piss around my plants. ..not on them of course. ..and another thing I do is take ciggerrett butts and put them in a circle around my plants..it keeps deer and other animals away... but those damn coons won't stop...they are very curious animals ...especially when you use fish like myself....I what I have been doing is taking these stainless square grate type things I found and connecting them together ..I will put a picture of them up soon..I have them hid in the woods ...but what I do is get some horseshoe nails and get something like a square post for a rail fence and make a square or rectangle around my loose soil ...I keep it a few inches above the soil where they can't quite get down to dig a hole..I connect the squares together and run them right up to the stock ..not right aginst it but close to it...I leave the squares tied together with something I can loosen and slide out as the plants grow...I guess you can do the same thing with chicken wire...I just like to leave it closer to the ground incase someone might see some chicken wire or w.e you use sticking up a few feet in the air from a makeshift fence..I just seem to think that would stick out more in my situation.. I'll try to get a picture up someday of how I do it...now if someone knows how to completely get rid of bears I'd like to know...besides death...if they smell food they are coming to check
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Thanks for the info!
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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That's a good idea ...I have done both...I usually shave off really fine longer shavings so they will dissolve after a rain to really get the smell out and then I carve larger chunks so they stay longer to prolong the smell
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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WhatDoYouWantFromLife said:
I use ammonia and coyote urine. I pack old film containers or aspirin bottles with cotton balls then fill about half way. I hang them on the fencing with pipe cleaners. It works on my veggie garden should work for you.
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Recharge the urine after a rain. Cold wipes it out and it needs recharge. You can use straight urine if you can afford it and leave the ammonia out. Also coyote urine.

http://www.predatorpee.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=BU

For those wondering where to get animal piss. A must for organic gardeners. Cougar piss keeps the deer away.
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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I always leave a a few live traps out.
But I never put bait in them unless they have ignored all the things iv put out to keep the away....the little fuckers come in just because of the smells we leave to check shit out...putting bait out really brings them in...and they always don't go for the bait and dig your shit up anyhow...I make a barrier around my shit sometimes and look for the best place an animal would come through them put the trap in the path and cover it up with pine limbs or something so they just walk right in otw to destroy our shit..makes me feel good to outsmart an animal...sad I know
 
thumper60

thumper60

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I've still got visible scars on both arms from playing with him, & then he'd get mad or scared & really inflict damage.
Honestly, not an animal to be taken lightly.

If Coons got as big as our bears (1400 lbs), the bears would be extinct.
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u got that right something I learned is never corner them unless your armed
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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Coons are wicked...I have been on a lot of coon hunts and a full grown con can whip up on a 80 lb dog or two like nothing. ..depends o how much fight is I the dog but those things aren't an animal to dick around with...and if you ever seen them in the daylight. ..beat feet
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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GoRealUhGro said:
Coons are wicked...I have been on a lot of coon hunts and a full grown con can whip up on a 80 lb dog or two like nothing. ..depends o how much fight is I the dog but those things aren't an animal to dick around with...and if you ever seen them in the daylight. ..beat feet
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Pack of dogs have a big old boar coon treed. That big old fella drops down on top of one of those hounds and all hell will break loose. People think they are so cute with their little feet and tiny masks. They can open you up like a Ziploc if they are pissed.
 
GoRealUhGro

GoRealUhGro

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Your damn right...pick one up In a live trap ...I bet your view will change pretty quick when it's trying eat your fingers off.....I have seen two dogs die from fighting with coons...iv trapped 50 of em and I still do t like handling them in a cage
 
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