Looking for Pest service

[[Kev308]]

I have a raccoon trapped inside my chicken coop. I’m looking for a pest service to come out and get this guy out of here as well as a dead chicken. When I opened the door this morning I think it was asleep in the nesting box, or it got pecked to death by the chickens. I’m pretty sure it was breathing.

 

[[Kev308]]

I’m in Mount Airy.

 

[beetles]

I am guessing this isn't a .22LR and fireplace tongs job.

 

[[Kev308]]

I am guessing this isn't a .22LR and fireplace tongs job.

It could have been, but I closed it up before it woke up and attacked my face. Now I’m at work.

 

[Sundazes]

Critter Cops.

 

[DeadInside]

From the DNR website list of Wildlife Control Cooperators:
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LNAME FNAME WPHONE City Species Barcklow Justin 410-982-5050 PIKESVILLE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Bateman Michael 240-876-0885 ADAMSTOWN mammals, excluding bats Bell Jeffrey 240-688-6584 MOUNT AIRY mammals, excluding bats and deer Brandi Brandy 410-515-1818 ABINGDON Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Brandi Christopher 410-515-1818 ABINGDON Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Brown Gregory 301-667-7862 CLEAR SPRING mammals, excluding bats Brown Timothy 301-779-5800 BRENTWOOD Birds,mammals, excluding bats,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, including bats Bryant Socrates 202-725-7563 FORT WASHINGTON Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Calderone Edwin 443-293-2010 WESTMINSTER Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Carder Jason 240-674-9053 IJAMSVILLE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Clair Amanda 443-454-4541 ROCKVILLE Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, including bats Cool David 301-418-4889 EMMITSBURG Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, including bats Deem Michael 301-501-1416 OAKLAND Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Duda Emil 240-816-1363 SHARPSBURG Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Eppley Joshua 301-525-1438 UNION BRIDGE Birds,mammals, excluding bats,reptiles and amphibians Firey Curtis 301-992-6090 CLEAR SPRING Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Fraley Norman 443-249-3615 STEVENSVILLE mammals, excluding bats Frey Clayton 301-991-8446 SMITHSBURG Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Gammon John 443-591-4967 PASADENA Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, including bats Garcia Alejandro 940447-7101 HAGERSTOWN mammals, excluding bats Gladmon Stephen 410-751-7545 WESTMINSTER Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Glenn Rodney 301-465-0196 SHARPSBURG Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, excluding bats Graham David 410--515-1818 ABINGDON Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Hodges Kristopher 443-386-3963 KINGSVILLE Birds,mammals, including bats Hornbarger William 240-345-5445 GREENCASTLE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Hussakowski Tony 301-528-2550 GERMANTOWN mammals, including bats Jarrard Jason 443-851-7061 BALTIMORE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Johnson Walter 301-349-2413 POOLESVILLE Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, excluding bats Jones Malo 301-653-2481 FORT WASHINGTON reptiles and amphibians Keels Korey 443-804-1412 ESSEX Birds,mammals, including bats Kendrick Joseph 443-603-6925 ABINGDON Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Kline Meran 301-416-0554 SMITHSBURG Beavers Kramer Richard 301-821-0323 BROOKEVILLE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Loayza Arturo 301-528-2550 GERMANTOWN mammals, including bats Loayza Cesar 301-528-2550 GERMANTOWN mammals, including bats Loayza Jimy 301-528-2550 GERMANTOWN mammals, including bats Loayza Jonathan 301-528-2550 WOODBINE mammals, including bats McMillan Lawrence 240-708-0999 GERMANTOWN mammals, excluding bats Miller Charles 410-266-5400 ANNAPOLIS Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Mumma Robert 301-991-1266 CLEAR SPRING mammals, excluding bats Naill Casey 410-984-8589 WESTMINSTER Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Nixon Carlton 443-505-3194 ESSEX Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, including bats Osmun Michael 240-498-3448 DERWOOD Reptiles Patterson Jeremy 410-493-4373 WESTMINSTER mammals, including bats,Birds,reptiles and amphibians Rinehart Randall 410-259-0819 NEW WINDSOR mammals, including bats,mammals, excluding bats Rosenberger Justin 571-455-9970 GAITHERSBURG Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Ryan Timothy 301-748-7136 FREDERICK Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Sarro Josh 410-412-6020 GLEN BURNIE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Schmelzer Keith 443-462-6645 BALTIMORE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Shadel Richard 301-668-2214 ONO Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Shields Patrick 301-268-1300 LAVALE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Simenowitz Samuel 443-813-6159 BALTIMORE Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians Truax Lewis 240-707-7708 HANCOCK mammals, excluding bats,reptiles and amphibians Tucker Daniel 301-257-6258 FREDERICK mammals, excluding bats,Furbearers Welch Bryan 301-331-5475 SHARPSBURG Birds,mammals, excluding bats,reptiles and amphibians Werner Max 240-674-4394 THURMONT Birds,reptiles and amphibians,mammals, excluding bats Wiest David 301-979-2929 UPPER MARLBORO Birds,mammals, including bats,reptiles and amphibians

 

[[Kev308]]

Critter Cops.

Thanks for the suggestion. I gave Jeff a call and have him on standby as a back up. Apparently I didn’t move quick enough and my wife called someone else. Smh

Also thank you @DeadInside for that list! Wow!

 

[[Kev308]]

So last night I got home from work after dark, ate dinner and got around to locking up the chickens around 8:30 PM. I go outside and pull one of the chickens, who always escapes, out of the tree and stuff her into the coop and lock it up. 9/10 I usually peek my head in to do a head count before closing up. Last night was just odd that I didn't.

I go out in the morning and get the feed and water situated and then open the door. A bunch of chickens come out like usual, but I hadn't collected eggs in a couple days and decided to get them before I left for work. I open up the door and things looked disarrayed and I saw a headless chicken on the floor. WTF!?....Then inches from my face there is a racoon sleeping in the nesting box. HOLY F!

I locked him in there and posted this online when I got to work. I set things up to have sundazes recommendation to come out and relocate the pest. Well, I didn't move fast enough and my wife called animal control who said they would come out for free.

They walked the racoon 30 ft off my property and let it go.
I bought a trap and hopefully I can fix this problem myself.
I think I got lucky and the racoon feasted on eggs instead of the rest of the chickens.

 

[Sundazes]

You can’t relocate it unfortunately, you have to dispatch it. That is what f you can catch it.

 

[DeadInside]

I bought a trap and hopefully I can fix this problem myself.

If you trap you should contact USDA Wildlife Services to obtain a (free) permit. It’s not too much of a PITA the worst part is getting through on the phone (they are often inundated with calls). Just describe the problem to them (raccoons persistently raiding your chicken coop) and they will typically issue you a “permit number” over the phone and you are set. See pasted info below;

. It may even become necessary to remove Nuisance Wildlife from your property. To find out about safe and legal ways to deal with these problem animals or to locate individuals or companies who are licensed by the Wildlife & Heritage Service to handle wildlife complaints, please call USDA Wildlife Services 1-877-463-6497 from Maryland or 410-349-8130from outside of Maryland, visit http://wildlifehelp.org or refer to linked list below.

Also note (as you probably know) raccoons are a RVS (rabies vector species) and must be euthanized and can not be ”relocated”. What Animal Control did was technically okay since they didn’t move the raccoon out of its “home range”. Good luck with it.

 

[teratos]

You can’t relocate it unfortunately, you have to dispatch it. That is what f you can catch it.

I would eat it.

OP, if you’re close to Bel Air, I’ll come get my dinner.