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Post by Phill on Jul 21, 2011 8:01:55 GMT -5
Is it just me or is the raccoon population absolutely in love with the sweet corn this year? I have already shot 16 this yearwhile irrigating at night, but I am still losing a lot of ears. Any ideas? I don't think oil and matches will work.
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Post by glowplug on Jul 21, 2011 8:57:30 GMT -5
Plan A ---- Caution the DNR frowns on this. Get some Golden Marlin flybait, place in shallow pan, pour cheap cola on it. Coons will go about 50 ft. and die. Essentially this poisons the nerves. Downside, besides maybe being illegal in your state?, is that it is non-selective so whatever gets in there is dead. I wouldn't risk my farm dog doing this.
Plan B - bait box traps with stale marshmellows. Take two marshmellows, thread them on a wire. I've been surrounding the marshmellow bait with plastic mesh, like onion bag mesh, so the coons struggle to get at the bait. They're more likely to trip the trap that way.
Plan C. - heard that playing a portable radio in the sweet corn patch deters the coons? Probably should tune to some dope smoking, maggot infested, pothead rap music station for the worst noise?
Glowplug
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Post by cornandbeef on Jul 21, 2011 10:55:12 GMT -5
I use an electric fence one strand is about 4 inches off the ground. The next one about 8 to 10 inches above the ground. Always works here.  |
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Post by Gambi80 on Jul 21, 2011 14:46:06 GMT -5
Surround your field with job applications...should keep the coons away.
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Post by cornandbeef on Jul 21, 2011 16:38:49 GMT -5
LMAO Gambi. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jd9600guru on Jul 21, 2011 17:52:28 GMT -5
Surround your field with job applications...should keep the coons away. ROTFLMFAOPMP HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
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Post by lafarmer345 on Jul 21, 2011 20:20:44 GMT -5
Monkey Chow.
Quit laughing.
It is a biscuit type feed for monkeys, but it will coons will eat it. It will constipate him, and he will eat and not be able to crap. He will die from being full of shit.
Folks, I am not a dummy, but I am not smart enough to make this stuff up!!!
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Post by milkmann on Jul 21, 2011 21:38:03 GMT -5
I use an electric fence one strand is about 4 inches off the ground. The next one about 8 to 10 inches above the ground. Always works here. Electric fence is the only thing I have found to work. I only run one wire about 6 inches high. "Here" it seems many of them will fill up on corn before having fly bait and soda pop for desert. Then every dead one needs 6 pallbearers.  |
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Post by ses on Jul 22, 2011 10:16:42 GMT -5
Monkey Chow. Quit laughing. It is a biscuit type feed for monkeys, but it will coons will eat it. It will constipate him, and he will eat and not be able to crap. He will die from being full of shit. Folks, I am not a dummy, but I am not smart enough to make this stuff up!!! What a cruel MoFo! I hope one of those Monkey Biskit bound coons finds an Exlax then crawls up on your tractor seat! |
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Post by lafarmer345 on Jul 22, 2011 10:38:28 GMT -5
Ses, there is no cruel death for a corn stealing coon. Don't judge me.
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