06/09/2026
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HELP AND WANT TO COMMENT SOMETHING RUDE, JUST SAVE YOUR TIME FROM TYPING IT, AND SAVE MY TIME FROM READING IT AND MOVE ON
I’m new to chickens and we recently just moved ours outside. We have a raccoon around our property, and we knew it was going to become a problem before we even got our chickens. It’s always on our cameras and tries to get in the trash. Well last night, I heard noise and caught it in the act of trying to get our babies. I ran it off. But my concern is how to dispatch it. We have close neighbors, including these terrible crackheads that want to live in the woods right next to our house, behind our coop area. The raccoon spawns from there and runs back there and Im not sure if shooting it is viable because I don’t want to accidentally shoot anyone or damage their homeless camp. (The people are real close maybe 20 feet give or take. I’ve been locking my chickens up for the night and leaving my Belgian Malinois in the run but it’s not really a longterm solution. I saw someone wrote that relocating it would just make it a problem for someone else. What do I do here?