I have 5 feeders in texas and the coons were eating me out of house and home and I installed the square varmint cages around the spinner and problem solved.

Put some kind of dissolvable rat poison in a bowl, and add kool-aid. The raccoons will love it, but the deer won't touch it.

Why wont the deer touch it? I thought they liked sweet stuff too?

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Just set the coon traps, and Mom is in town and says she says she's going to shoot them in the morning!! And I know she won't be able to!!! Lol 200 cash in my pocket!!, have cages, they either rip them down, or 3-4 hang on them so one can speen the feeder!! I got a new idea for them tho!!! Will have my camera's on video next week cause it's going to be funny!!!

they say fly bait and sardines will end them pretty quick.....personally don't know though;)

3in PVC pipe on the feeder legs. Hang with a small chain so it spins a little

I don't know why. A guy my dad works with did this and it worked. Only bad thing was he waited a few days to go back and check, and by the time he got there the 6 dead coons stunk to high heaven!

Go to cal. Parish mosquito control and ask for a bucket of rat poison. It's free. It comes in cake style. Cut a two to three inch hole out the top. Break poison cake into small pieces. Coons can grab poison out the top but deer can't get to it. Just secure bucket to a board or something so it don't tip over. Coons run off and die far away from stand. Problem solved.