You should have seen me early last night. I have a big picture window in my office, the chickens were eating and all of a sudden I looked up and a sick coon was eating the food. I told Nancy to come and look. I told her that the coon was sick, you never see a healthy coon in the afternoon, they love to get out and eat at night. About ten minutes later she said, look there are two more coons. They have chased my rooster and eating all of there food. I told her to get my 22 long rifle and I would go out the front door and get them. I tried to sneak up on them, I shot the older one in the head and chased the other two into the woods. One went up a oak tree and got away and the other one, who knows. I then took the dead coon around the block to see if anyone wanted to eat him. An old black man, very nice and about 80 years old said, he may be rabbit, so no one got him. I left him in the woods for the buzzards could have a meal. Three of my small hens are missing, something ate them? Maybe a dog or a coon or even a red tail hawk, who knows. I feed the tree rats and fish this morning and also took care of my goldfish pond. I love animals but went they eat and destroy my shit, I will kill them and let the neighbors have a meal. Hot as hell here today. Been cooking and eating more than usual. Got some more green peanuts and cooked them yesterday. See ya'll later, Cat
Aw, sorry about the chickens. Life is really a jungle in the country, ain't it?
ReplyDeleteI used to have a pet red rooster named Quiche.He slept on my horse and loved to go for car rides.
ReplyDeleteMaybe your neighbors are tired of the coons and other wild animals you shoot, and they're eating your chickens. :p
ReplyDeleteChickens are natures lunch it seems. I never saw more predators than when I raised chickens. From big ass snakes to chicken hawks. But you can't beat home grown chicken and eggs. And shootin stray vermin is just plain fun
ReplyDeleteThe "never see a coon in the afternoon that's not sick" thing is an old wives tale. While coons prefer to be nocturnal for safety it's not all that unusual to see them in the earlier morning or later afternoon, especially when there's a decent meal involved. A chicken is a decent meal. Hell, I've seen some raiding dog food and birdfeeders at four in the afternoon.
ReplyDeletePeople down here will not eat a coon in the summer months because of sickness to many coons.
ReplyDeleteThose little bastards are SMART too. I saw one in Texas I swear to God could have reached up and hugged me it was so big. It keeps getting in the workshop and eating the birdseed. Never saw it in the day though..only at night.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right CAT..a neighbor called me yesterday and said she had an 'injured' racoon in her yard and needed my help catching it... plus she couldn't get her little dog inside or away from the racoon, and her six year old was going crazy thinking it was a pet. I told her what you said. She changed her mind about helping the animal! I told her to call the county if it returns...not that the county would do anything up here.
ReplyDeleteI emailed an old classmate/friend who is a wildlife specialist in Mississippi. She says raccoons that come out in daytime are usually hungry, searching for food for little ones, or their dens were destroyed somehow...rarely are they rabid. She said they should be left alone unless they are behaving strangely. Unless you're Catfish, then you should shoot them and feed them to your neighbors. :)
ReplyDeleteWe don't have coons here but plenty of other "weasels", they need to be shot or trapped.It is amazing how critters learn.They never took any of my chickens (I shot and trapped) but devasted my two neighbors that declined to do anything.This lesson does not help for birds of prey though.
ReplyDeleteI've a pair of coons that I just might have to give a one way trip too. They're fast becoming a nuisance and are into everything. They knocked over my glass patio table, it's a wonder it didn't break when it fell over and off the back deck. I don't feed the critters in the summertime, only when winter brings on the hardtimes.
ReplyDeleteDamn coons are nothing but useless vermin; they aren't native to my area, but idiots brought them in as pets and now we have the mangy things running around raising hell and getting into everything. My parents had to shoot them all the time; they were constantly trying to eat my mom's cat, and they wiped out a hutch full of rabbits at one of their neighbor's house.I've heard they're good eating if fixed proper, but I've never had them myself.
ReplyDeleteIn the south, people bake them with potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots just like a big roast in the oven. Coon is very dark meat and doesn't taste too bad. I use to eat them as a youngman, but not now. I told people last year how to cook them. Cat
ReplyDeleteDaddy, you just crack me up! I can just hear your voice tell this story.
ReplyDeletefeed the coons to the gaters.
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