B&B Happy Goats....journal

[rachels.haven]

Aw, rooting for you and your racoon conquest!

 

[Bruce]

Do i darefor joy yet ?

That is the hard part, with no body you'll never know for sure if she moved on permanently or temporarily. Hopefully the former.

 

[CntryBoy777]

One thing is for sure....there will be more....ya may have Won the "battle", but not the "war".....ya will have a lull for a bit and then another will move into the "territory"......also, I have seen and dropped several during daylight hours......

 

[B&B Happy goats]

That is the hard part, with no body you'll never know for sure if she moved on permanently or temporarily. Hopefully the former.

Bruce, she and her younins should be dead by now...just have to put both cameras out tonight and see what is crawling around in the dark......

 

[B&B Happy goats]

The skull has been identified as a young racoon skull...

QUESTION. ....do you think a electric fence would keep racoons out of the chicken yard....?
We want to really shock them hard......like hard enought to take their masks off !

 

[CntryBoy777]

The difficult thing about coons is they are so versatile in the ways they gain access....they climb, dig, and will jump from one tree to another....similar to a squirrel.....I don't have any experience with electric fencing of any kind, so not any help on that.....

 

[Bruce]

You can certainly use electric fence to keep coons out, though as @CntryBoy777 said, they'll come in from above on the trees if possible.

 

[Bruce]

I don't think a motion sensor light would bother them one bit, but it would alert you to activity at night.

Low hot wire has to be pretty low for a coon, and you have to mow or herbicide the fence line to keep the grass from arcing on the hot wire. And of course that fence has to be inside the property line enough that you can do the maintenance and the wire isn't on someone else's property. But a wire at the top should give them quite a jolt as long as they are also touching the fence AND it is grounded.

 

[greybeard]

I don't think a motion sensor light would bother them one bit, but it would alert you to activity at night.

Not many use MD lights here in this part of the world anymore..even on low sensitivity, the flying insects set them off too often. and once the light comes on once, more insects are attracted and fly over, and a cycle begins..on/off--on/off-on/off.... seems like just enough bugs stick around each time to trigger it next time.

 

[Rammy]

The same ones from Amazon?