Oh yeah! I've seen some of them! My husband had called a trapper he knew to catch whatever was getting our chickens. He looked the fence over, found some hair, said it was raccoons.
The guy came to the door about 5 in the morning, first light, and I thought he had a bear at first, it was that big, and growling like one! I'd never seen a coon that big! Had no idea they got that big! And he got about 4 of them that size as I recall, one a night. Took them with him, I think he was a fur trapper.
Long time ago. My parents never had any wild animals around like this. I remember taking them for a ride one Sunday afternoon, on a dirt road up in the hills, very pretty, and there was a wild turkey running down the road in front of us. My mother got ALL excited, she had never seen one.
My husband used to laugh, saying that she thought we lived "on the edge", and wasn't too sure which side of it. Well, it definitely has become living on the wild side!
Laughing!
Diane S.
----- Original Message -----From: CathrynThereseSent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:37 PMSubject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] housing issue
Diane, The last raccoons we caught were big enough to vote. I put fencing panels in my windows each evening in addition to the fencing over the outside.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
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