Homesteading Chicken Coop Build, Chickens, Pond, Garden & Projects

Fruitloops. No kidding.

 

They do raid garbage cans after all.

Fruit loops are a step up.
Not nutritionally, but tastewise.

 

Seriously.

We had a professional trapper come to get rid of the coons in the attic.
He said he only uses Fruitloops.

…. now the down side was, he discovered he was dealing w/an
experienced female. Every night, the trap on the roof was clean
and not tripped. He said she reached in through the wire and
picks it out, one piece at a time.

We.....and they were lucky, because of all the activity w/the traps,
she took her kits and moved on.
No harm, no foul.

 

Just about anything will work for raccoons, but a lot of chicken people will smear Welch's Concord grape jelly on the trip pan. The raccoons can't make off with the bait without tripping the trap. A piece of meat placed under the trip pan (and trap) stake down the trap or it will get turned over and the bait stolen. Using meat can result in catching skunks as well as raccoons (you have been warned). Ask this question on backyard chickens.

 

As far as chicken thieves go, this is how you snare a python.

 

So once online, who's running the pool for when you or your wife, forget and get zapped?

 

With or without the zap?

 

The last year I lived in Alaska, I put an electric fence around
my garden to keep the moose out.
Well......after I got it installed and fired up....
my curiosity finally got to me....
I just had to see if was really there or just voodoo….
I just wacked my finger real fast down over the wire.....
it numbed my arm up to my elbow for about an hour.

YMMV

 

Yup my dumb Lil brother peed on 1 it got him pretty good other brother told him too..
I pushed him off but he got bit.. Poor kid

 

Electric fence next door no piddling allowed.