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Gypsy's Rambles, Wanders, Wonders and Blunders
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frustratedearthmother
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Love it! Gotta make the girls a priority!
Bruce
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Might have to make an effort to camo the trap in branches and such. Sounds like this one is going to be a PITA for some time but you'll get it.
B&B Happy goats
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Go get youself a already cooked rotisserie chicken and eat it for dinner, strip most of the meat off it, then take the entire carcass and zip tie it inside the trap...you will have a coon in the morning...it has never failed me yet. Also makes for a easy dinner with leftovers. ..and a racoon for the next nights dinner
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GypsyG
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If the peanut butter and marshmallows I baited it with tonight don't work I'll give that a try... I repositioned the trap, covered it with limbs and leaves, and made two walls out of brush funneling into the trap.
I feel more at ease since reinforcing the coop, and I had planned on getting to bed at a reasonable hour tonight, but that was just not to be... So much for plans. A house the next street over caught on fire and their car exploded in the garage, so sirens and red and blues. I counted eight fire trucks out there and several cop suvs... I didn't see any ambulances, so that's a good sign. I hope they were not home or they got out safely.
All of the kits in Brownie and Posey's litters are doing great. I guess Zelda is just fat and needs to go on a diet. I swear she can gain weight on air. Brownie has a new addition to her litter. One of my friends bred her white flemish doe to my big blue buck Barry. She only had three kits, two died and the doe just wasn't acting right with the third, so now the kit is happily being fostered by Brownie and is warm and wiggly with a fat belly.
B&B Happy goats
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Must be busy rabbit time, lol i got a new delivery of nine yesterday, her first was seven...she is such a good mom and clean ....
Please try the chicken carcus...it works like a charm, and i had it next to my sliding glass door because they were so brazen they would come to the glass and torment the dogs inside the house.....when you get them , if your not going to kill them ....take them more than ten miles away because they travel a ten mile radius to hunt and live....good luck woman
Please try the chicken carcus...it works like a charm, and i had it next to my sliding glass door because they were so brazen they would come to the glass and torment the dogs inside the house.....when you get them , if your not going to kill them ....take them more than ten miles away because they travel a ten mile radius to hunt and live....good luck woman
Bruce
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Baymule
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Nothing like a good foster momma to keep the babies fat and full.
If you catch the coon, do not release it, it is unfair to the coon, unfair to the coons in the new territory and unfair to anyone who may live in that territory. I think you know what you have to do.
If you catch the coon, do not release it, it is unfair to the coon, unfair to the coons in the new territory and unfair to anyone who may live in that territory. I think you know what you have to do.
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GypsyG
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When I was a teenager I worked on a huge exotic animal ranch. The ranch was located in a podunk town and the local teenagers had nothing to do out there besides get drunk and run their coon dogs.
The raccoons quickly figured out that the ranch was a hunting free safe zone and we were quickly overrun. They were so thick that we had started seeing them during the day! They learned how to turn the grain auger on and we'd come in to tons of grain on the ground. They learned to open door knobs and handles...
They learned that we stored bags of CalfManna in our lab room. They got in one night and destroyed the lab; broke three microscopes and did all kinds of destruction. My boss then put up a coon bounty for $10 each... And we could keep the skin! I'd sit out in my lawn chair with a spotlight on a tripod pointed at the auger and a .22... Id flip on the light and pick them off like flys. I earned over $200 in raccoon bounty money in just a few weeks!
Another guy who worked at the ranch was a true backwoods Ozark mountain hillbilly. He taught me how to skin and dress them, he helped me tan a few hides, and he taught me several good ways to cook them. My favorite way was to use a crock pot or pressure cooker and then shred them to make what Hillbilly called "hillbilly BBQ pork sandwiches".
B&B Happy goats
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Go git er done GypsyG , make yourself a coonskin hat, with the tail intact...like Daniel Boon had , lol
