OT, Where Do They Go?

Bryce Frazier · Feb 19, 2014

Hi all, I just went do the let the chickens out, and I discovered a trail of rather large muddy raccoon tracks that go from under the chicken coop, to the graden shed IN TO THE STRAW BALE STACK, then back out, then out of the graden shed, then there are big muddy swipe marks on the sliding glass door of the green house. So, what I want to know, is where do they go during the day? Bryce

Dick2 · Feb 19, 2014

The ones around our farm usually slept on top of the sieves of our old combines that sat outside when they weren't being used - until we blocked them out so they couldn't get inside.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 19, 2014

It's not uncommon for us to find some in the big round bale stacks when we are feeding in the winter time. Usually enough space for them to get in somewhere between the bales.

Dave H (MI) · Feb 19, 2014

Places I have found coons in the daytime.

1) Curled up in the fork of a tree close to the trunk, high up.

2) Inside the tree, usually from a hole left by a rotted branch falling.

3) Under a piece of plywood laying in an old shed with a dirt floor.

4) In the eaves of a pole barn

5) In the eaves of the garage

6) Inside stacked square bales

Ditto with possums. Pretty much anywhere they are comfortable and feel safe. A very smart, successful, opportunistic animal that can do a lot of damage if not controlled.

Mike M · Feb 19, 2014

Flybait and coke or a live trap then you can get rid of them.

Bob Bancroft · Feb 19, 2014

A couple of years ago in the spring when I found a coon track on my big truck mirror- that's correct- IH 8100 truck, mirrors right up there like a semi truck, I got concerned that they would get up on top and rip through the roll tarp for the corn smell.
I set up a live trap next to the truck, baited with various recommended baits. Never got a thing.
Last year, it was late spring when their tracks started showing up around the grain bins. I set up the live trap baited with some shelled corn in a tuna fish can. Caught nine! They were relocated to the woods where they entered eternal rest.
We are right on the end of a pretty wild gully. I'm sure they came up out of there.

alg · Feb 19, 2014

We had them in a cooling tower at work.

JayinNY · Feb 19, 2014

Hahahaha I like that "relocated to the woods and entered eternal rest" lol

Steve@Advance · Feb 19, 2014

"Where Do They Go?"

Under the bed in my camper!

Was in there one day looking for something, about half dark inside, lifted up the bed, almost touched him before I realized he was in there!

Down went the mattress, out I came! OK, YOU CAN HAVE IT!!!

They chewed everything they could find, striped all the insulation off the water heater, chewed all the duct work to shreds, found the toilet paper, made a nice little nest...

Anonymous-0 · Feb 19, 2014

They like to get up high, above our eye level, and crap on the hay or straw. .22 will stop that, if applied correctly!

JMS/.MN · Feb 19, 2014

They go in the empty calf barn, so when better half forgets to shut off garden water, then goes out late at night with a flashlight....the wide pair of beady eyes shine, along with a bunch of narrow beady eyes......and scare the living daylights out of her for this first-time experience!

fixerupper · Feb 19, 2014

When I've moved big bales out of stacks in the winter the coons will come jumping out. One time, at our local threshing show site, one of the board members was up in a boom truck cutting off a big hollow tree limb. When the limb dropped a coon flew out of what was left of the limb still on the tree right in front of him. The coon dropped twenty feet to the ground and took off. Are you reading this BigJT? Jim

notjustair · Feb 19, 2014

They go into a combine. Incidentally, they will also fit through the straw chopper of said combine if you engage the drive without having a looksee inside first. They are in much smaller pieces as they exit.

They are also in the rafters above the standby generator. You know, the rafters a foot above your head. Their arms must be just a hair shorter than a foot (as I learned one day in the dark).

They also like to position themselves in the crotch of a cedar tree. The dogs seem to be able to grab them before they hit the ground. I've hardly heard the gunshot by the time they are helping the coon up off the ground. They are considerate that way.

T in NE · Feb 20, 2014

They'll go into a stack of tires, too.
Ever been after a tire near the bottom of a stack of spares and have the stack start growling at you?
The bottom two spares weren't spares no more once I was done.

Jeff B. · Feb 20, 2014

A couple years ago,right at the crack of dawn, I watched a big coon out my kitchen window. He climbed up my woodpile, onto the shed roof, and from there up a adjoining tree into an old abandoned magpie nest and went to sleep. I left for work, and when I came home, as it got dark I watched him wake up, groom himself a bit and climb down and lumber off down the creek. Never saw him again, but I know they're frequently around.

jennifer408 · Feb 20, 2014

we only get visited by them every couple of years, after we have let our guards down. but im going to fix that. im going to surprise DH with a new blue tick puppy

NNP · Feb 21, 2014

usually up on the seat of my tree stands.
fold it up, they will fold it back down...

OT, Where Do They Go?

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