Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Still dealing with raccoons around the chicken coop. All the chickens are safe but its only because I am dealing with the problem instead of "hoping it goes away"
All I am using as bait is chicken feed, that's what they were after to begin with. So I set the trap, make sure there is chicken feed in the trap, then check the trap every morning. What started as 6 raccoons is now down to the last couple left but raccoons can travel over 50 miles and they roam within that range based on needs. I suspect these raccoons are likely the same ones in last 3-5 years during the cancer and cancer recovery years that are destroying my garden. They know there is usually food here but I never got the garden out due to all the rain this year so they are looking for other food sources. In a previous video, I showed signs they were trying to get into the chicken coop where they will gladly kill chickens, eat eggs, and also any chicken feed they find. They simply won't leave until all food sources are exhausted, so you have to deal with the problem.
Once I have a raccoon trapped, I move the trap away from the chicken coop/run and dispatch the raccoon. If you took it somewhere and turned it lose, it will just come back (unless you took it somewhere outside of its 50 mile range and well, I ain't got time for all that.
Some people might be alarmed at the muscle spasms, but if you are a hunter, you know that is just normal. Any living thing (animals or humans) will have involuntary muscle spasms once the brain activity is taken away. It might last for a few seconds to several minutes and is due to electrical impulses in the muscles without a brain signal.
Someone on FB asked me if I have ever eaten raccoon and the answer is yes. I have had them prepared a few different ways (along with opossum and groundhogs - while on this topic, groundhogs actually taste pretty good but opossum and raccoons not so much to me). However, I live on a lake and raccoons will taste like whatever their primary food source is, which is probably dead fish here and they have a really strong fishy taste I don't care for. I don't eat the raccoons or opossums that I dispatch (but do eat the groundhogs), not saying I would never eat them but I would have to be pretty dang hungry to eat them by choice and since I have a choice and freezers and pantries full of food, I don't.
Still dealing with raccoons around the chicken coop. All the chickens are safe but its only because I am dealing with the problem instead of "hoping it goes away"
All I am using as bait is chicken feed, that's what they were after to begin with. So I set the trap, make sure there is chicken feed in the trap, then check the trap every morning. What started as 6 raccoons is now down to the last couple left but raccoons can travel over 50 miles and they roam within that range based on needs. I suspect these raccoons are likely the same ones in last 3-5 years during the cancer and cancer recovery years that are destroying my garden. They know there is usually food here but I never got the garden out due to all the rain this year so they are looking for other food sources. In a previous video, I showed signs they were trying to get into the chicken coop where they will gladly kill chickens, eat eggs, and also any chicken feed they find. They simply won't leave until all food sources are exhausted, so you have to deal with the problem.
Once I have a raccoon trapped, I move the trap away from the chicken coop/run and dispatch the raccoon. If you took it somewhere and turned it lose, it will just come back (unless you took it somewhere outside of its 50 mile range and well, I ain't got time for all that.
Some people might be alarmed at the muscle spasms, but if you are a hunter, you know that is just normal. Any living thing (animals or humans) will have involuntary muscle spasms once the brain activity is taken away. It might last for a few seconds to several minutes and is due to electrical impulses in the muscles without a brain signal.
Someone on FB asked me if I have ever eaten raccoon and the answer is yes. I have had them prepared a few different ways (along with opossum and groundhogs - while on this topic, groundhogs actually taste pretty good but opossum and raccoons not so much to me). However, I live on a lake and raccoons will taste like whatever their primary food source is, which is probably dead fish here and they have a really strong fishy taste I don't care for. I don't eat the raccoons or opossums that I dispatch (but do eat the groundhogs), not saying I would never eat them but I would have to be pretty dang hungry to eat them by choice and since I have a choice and freezers and pantries full of food, I don't.
