Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

[Sally PB]

Anything going on recently?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Anything going on recently?

Nope. And that's just the way I love it

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Actually, one of the turkeys has bumblefoot it's being treated none of the turkey eggs that have been set for the last month successfully hatched and the incubator because it stopped turning ruined the last batch of chickens I was trying to hatch oh and it looks like we have a trash panda stealing eggs otherwise things going great could be a lot worse

 

[Sally PB]

Can you shoot or trap the trash panda?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

In the dark? I haven't hit a goat yet.

and yes, trash panda has defeated two traps so far.

 

[Sally PB]

For trapping a raccoon, I have used the following for bait:
Marshmallows
Dog food
Canned fish of some kind
Melon

I've had some success with all of them. I've had plenty of failures, too. The melon caught me a wood chuck twice, and a possum once.

I have caught as few as zero and as many as four critters in a week. I don't know what makes for more success... location of the trap? Bait? Luck? Critter inexperience in the world?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I;ve tried cat food, dog food, and an actual chicken so far. Oh, and sardines or sprats - some salted fish in a tin.

 

[Sally PB]

I've read and been told that raccoon love, freaking LOVE, marshmallows. I think I've caught one with them; I didn't have any on hand when I caught the rest of them. I might get a bag, next time I'm at the store. They aren't a good bait out in the rain, however.

I wish my trap were just a bit bigger. I put the dish of bait just past the trigger. I keep it as far away from the sides/end as I can. I've found un-sprung traps with the bait dish pulled to the side of the trap. The dang raccoon was able to reach in and snag the dish, pull it over, and grab the bait out of the dish. If the trap were a bit bigger, the bait would be out of reach.

I also put a cinder block (aka, CMU) on top of the trap to weigh it down. I've found them sprung, rolled over, both full and empty.

 

[Molpet]

I use mini marshmallows in the dog proof traps, corn, sunflower seeds. In the box traps I use pull tab can cat food cracked slightly open. I tie the pull tab to a hay twine and tie it off so they can't carry it out. Bad eggs in the box trap works too. Half hatched are the best

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've read and been told that raccoon love, freaking LOVE, marshmallows

They do. Almost as much as my dad does. Those were picked over live birds roosting not far away for each time I got a coon in the paw traps