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Raccoon trapping
- Thread starter bueller
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Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Not a coon, but didn't want to start a different predator thread currently. Probably will post up a late season photo when I thaw everything out to flesh, this coyote just got pitched away from the trap location. He had mange starting in. He had weak fur from the back of his head to the middle of his back. I have trapped 3 coyotes, 1 bobcat, 3 coons and a literal dump truck full of possums! I think I am up to 9 possums now on my farm. Not sure why the possum explosion this year, maybe related to pack rats, them SOBs are everywhere this year.
356
5 year old buck +
Congratulations! I'd love to see that repeated at our place many times over. Keep up the great work on predator patrol.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
For th last few years, every coyote I got had a problem with it's fur right on top of the shoulders. It looked like it was rubbed off and started to grow back again. Very weird. And it made the pelts essentially worthless.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
You might need to target them a little earlier in the season. Generally that is the first place many of them start to show fur weakness. From running through brush, ducking under fences, etc.. The females also start to show missing fur on their rear flanks this time of year from breeding. Mange also typically shows up in the belly area and the back of the neck like this one.
A decent tom bobcat this morning and my possum tally keeps racking up....... LOL!
That is a decent cat. You gonna sell it?
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Depends on what the furbuyer offers. Probably just tan it and use the hide myself for a project.
Last year, late May, I was already experiencing problems with primarily coons eating developing peaches out of the peach trees. The first few days of June, I trapped ten coons and shot three or four more around a feeder. I had a dozen traps out. After the initial catches, I cut that back to four traps within about 50 yards of the fruit trees. I caught two more coons over the next two weeks and pulled the traps.
There are two cameras in the fifty fruit tree area and a camera on a corn feeder fifty yards away. It was over a month before I saw another coon track in the area. It was three months before I got a picture of a coon. Four months before a coon hit the feeder. Seven months later, I would say the coons are back to pre trapping numbers.
There are two cameras in the fifty fruit tree area and a camera on a corn feeder fifty yards away. It was over a month before I saw another coon track in the area. It was three months before I got a picture of a coon. Four months before a coon hit the feeder. Seven months later, I would say the coons are back to pre trapping numbers.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
This was a first for me. 
Set a coyote trap where I could see it from my dining room window. Damn thing had mange worse than the last one I caught here at my place. May never catch a healthy one here.
Set a coyote trap where I could see it from my dining room window. Damn thing had mange worse than the last one I caught here at my place. May never catch a healthy one here.
fishin coyote
5 year old buck +
Bet he looked happier after that picture.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
Several years ago I shot one in the middle of the day that had mange so bad it was bald. It also had cuts on the back of its haunches and a severe heartworm infection.
If you feel like it, slice into that mangy critter and cut the heart out. The ones I've shot look like a big wad of noodles comes spilling out of the heart.
If you feel like it, slice into that mangy critter and cut the heart out. The ones I've shot look like a big wad of noodles comes spilling out of the heart.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
I have necropsied a number of coyote stomachs before just to see what they had been eating. I never thought about that, but it makes sense that if domesticated dogs need to take medication to control heartworm that wild canines would be infected most of the time.
