I looked up "a good way to poison raccoons on a farm" because they were getting my chickens pretty good and the traps just weren't getting all of them. I found a USDA article that actually had a great poison trap info for what I needed. The funny thing was that after they gave all the info they said "but you'd have to be a truly evil person to poison an animal and leave it to suffer all night"... and some other shit. I'm not sure they are aware that raccoons don't kill the chicken and then eat them... they just start eating them alive. They also aren't aware that their poison+coke set out in a pan doesn't leave them to suffer all night. There wasn't a coon more than 20ft trom the pan.
When I lived in Rockinsaw (Arkansas). The coons and possums kept wiping out the wifes chickens.
No matter how I fixed their runs, total wire enclosure.
I got mad, and started live trapping them, haul them down the counry road. Pop them with the Ruger .22 and set them on a log or fence post for the waiting vultures to have lunch.
One day my old neighbor Verlin drove in and says, yah know I been noticing a lot of dead coons and possums laying on logs, propped up by rocks and on fence posts. Darndest thing I ever seen.
I said yah I noticed that too.
I said it is so common now, I was thinking of changing the name of the road. To Tired Coon Road.
They are just laying about everywhere.
Old boy smacked his gums a couple of times spit and went on down to the mail box.
He wasn't out of the yard and I was on my knees laughing like a fool.