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COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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third gen. IH

07-21-2005 20:25:30

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Can anyone tell me the best way to keep coon and deer out of my sweet corn?

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john d

07-22-2005 18:35:47

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

Electric fence will work if the charger is really strong, the grass is wet with dew, and you get the wire where they have to crawl under or climb over. A big mean dog will do a good job until too many coons show up and he gets tired. A couple of previous posters mentioned using a radio. I've done that many times over the last 35 years, and with very good success - but only when I had more than one radio, and had them tuned to different stations. Put one on a news/talk format, one on a really nasty rock station, and another on country music. Turn each up to the point that you can hear all three anywhere in the patch. It's been my experience that if the batteries go dead in the middle of the night and the coons come in, you won't keep them out the next night!

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51Pony

07-22-2005 16:57:43

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

Coons, skunks and sometimes deer hate a fencer attached to a wire about 4" off the ground.

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Rickstir

07-22-2005 13:38:14

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

Here is what works for us.

Dingo the Corn Dog

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Dave H (MI)

07-22-2005 08:50:43

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

We live in an area near a large park where they only recently started thinning the deer. I have always thinned the coons for them. They wander out of the park where they feed (day or night) on the trash cans or from handouts and think they can help themselves to chickens, garden....you name it. Deer, coyote, fox are only a little bit more wiley.

The radio on a talk station all night works good for short term. Electric fence is darn near foolproof for deer and coons. Dogs loose on YOUR property inside YOUR fence are a great deterrent.
Hair clippings, bottles of panther pi$$, etc are a waste of time and money. You should probably always plant enough that you can lose a little of it to nature. Please don't dump your unwanteds on other peoples property if you trap. Suck it in and do the right thing.

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Rappin DJ

07-22-2005 08:16:07

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

What kind of music do yer coons most like on the radio while they dine? And, fer you electric fence guys, is 120 volts enough? And, ...it's illegal to relocate a coon... you got to be kidding me right?

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

07-22-2005 14:19:44

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to Rappin DJ, 07-22-2005 08:16:07

No kidding. It's against the law to relocate a racoon unless you kill it. We live about forty miles from the U.S. border. The Ministry of Natural Resources of Ontario wanted to keep U.S. rabies out, so over two years they innoculated every racoon they could find in a 50 mile band across the province.

Retired conservation officers and trappers did most of the live-trapping which went on for two summers. They tagged the innoculated racoons and compiled some interesting statistics in the process. In our twenty-acre woodlot, for example, the MNR guy tagged 16 racoons. (I have killed two since then, and neither had a tag.)

The theory is that the racoons are territorial and a population of innoculated animals is the best deterrent to the spread of the disease.

The problem is they are notorious hitch-hikers in trucks and R.V's. That's why there are so many of the pests in cities.

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Fred Martin

07-22-2005 07:39:19

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

I figure this is a good place to put this post....was down at my neighbor"s house over the fourth of July weekend. They told of the coons getting in their chicken feed. While I was there another neighbor came and got three coons to train his coon dogs with. When I asked how he caught them he said he had a dumpster down by the chicken house that someone had thrown bread in...the next morning he had three coons in it. They couldn"t get out. He also said theres ten more in that cage behind you....and I got up and looked at them...so, that was a good method for them...and no damage to the critter. Fred OH

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Mike M

07-22-2005 07:22:31

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

If you have a radio leave it play all night.

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GAC

07-22-2005 06:03:37

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

I had a neighbour that used electric fence. He put it about 6" off the ground. He said it worked.

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caseyc

07-22-2005 05:51:18

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

i tie my coon hounds up around the patch. i keep them just out of reach of the corn so they don't flatten it. even if a coon does get by them they will let me know so i can get out there!

casey in SD

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Coloken

07-22-2005 05:35:02

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me too in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

Dang, they got into mine Thur. night. AND I LIVE IN TOWM. At least 2 blocks to open space. They had to come down the alley with 4 diferent dogs (fenced in) barking at them. Like all ways, corn was just a week early. How do they know?

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Jim in NC

07-22-2005 04:01:08

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

I have used a live trap cage baited with cheap fish-flavored cat food to catch the critters and then usually relocate them underground since rabies is a problem here. The electric fence will help too. I began trapping this year about a month before corn was ready. I caught 2 coons and have been fortunate to have not lost any corn to them this year. Deer tracks are all in my corn patches, but they have not bothered it so far. I was at a local Tractor Supply last week, and they had a combo pack of trapping cages(small and large) for less money than I paid for mine years ago.

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

07-22-2005 05:20:06

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to Jim in NC, 07-22-2005 04:01:08

Live trap, golf cart ride and .22 solution works well on docks. We'll see this year how it does in a corn patch. In Ontario it's illegal to relocate a racoon.

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onefarmer

07-22-2005 08:27:21

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, , 07-22-2005 05:20:06

I think you missed where he relocated them to. It's the best place for them.

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

07-22-2005 14:05:54

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to onefarmer, 07-22-2005 08:27:21

Nope, didn't miss it. Admired the subtlety, actually.

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Onefarmer

07-22-2005 18:51:19

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, , 07-22-2005 14:05:54

Was good enough I started using it!

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Dean Barker

07-21-2005 21:49:52

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

My 100 lb black lab rottweiler dog keeps all the critters out of our sweet corn.

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Glen in TX

07-21-2005 21:25:48

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

I've done the same thing putting up an electric fence with a hot wire down low 4" or so and then another also about 24-28" high to keep out stray cattle and other critters. My garden is small enough that a solar fence charger works well for this and it has a switch on it so I can turn it off when hoeing out fence or picking along the edges.

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MN Scott

07-21-2005 20:47:17

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to third gen. IH, 07-21-2005 20:25:30

The only way to keep the coons out is to put an electric fence around the corn. You use one wire about 4 inches from the ground. Use a good strong electric fencer and keep the weeds off it. We have been using an electric fence for as long as I can remember and have never lost an ear to the coons. As for the deer, I"ve never had trouble with them so maybe someone else has an idea on them.

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Jerry Cent. Mi.

07-22-2005 04:31:55

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to MN Scott, 07-21-2005 20:47:17

I leave a radio in my garden set on a station that plays all night. It works most of the time. Oh: You have to turn the radio on.

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Tom Dooley

07-22-2005 10:04:22

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Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to Jerry Cent. Mi., 07-22-2005 04:31:55

Corn fed coon roasted with a genrous amount of sage dressing inside the cavity,along with potatoes and carrots cooked on the side is a good solution also.Top it off with a large slice of apple pie with a scoop of ice cream on top.After all we're supposed to "enjoy " God's creatures !!Tom

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