Ron's not a chicken man, is he?
Not the whole chicken, just the breasts and legs.
It's OUTSIDE and no mistake. It isn't just one racoon (or whatever)
you are dealing with. While it might be satisfying to whip out your
hog-leg 44's with "Say yer prayers, ya ring tailed bandit!", in
reality it isn't very practical.
You have to resolve yourself to just discouraging them. Racoons are
creatures of habit and prescribed circuits of endeavor. If they get
zapped a few times, they will change that circuit leaving your hen
house out of it.
This time of year, you lose a few chickens. We have an enormous red
tailed hawk picking off the far wanderers and straglers. I can draw
a bead on him, but the vote of the clan was to leave him be. We (we
and the hawk) are simply going to have to learn to be polite and
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