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Just wondering how long the gestation time is on coon.

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62-65 days

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Ok, thank you Sir. You wouldn't kow haw many litters they raise in a year too would you?

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Yep, only 1 litter a year. Gestation is the same as a dog, 58-65 days.

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Ok, thanks guys I ordered a book on them but haven't got it yet. We had them as pets when I was a kid and dad had hounds to hunt them with off and on but I never really studied them much.

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Yep, only 1 litter a year. Gestation is the same as a dog, 58-65 days.

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I suspected they might have 2 a year if they were in good health. Just like a dog, if they recoop from the litter fast they come in faster. I know since our farmers started all these feeder crops our coon are getting bigger and staying in a lot better health. You allso see kittens real early and again in late summer to early fall.

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I was always told they will have only one litter a year.. But with that said, was also told that they will keep recycling into heat untell they are bred or untell they catch from being bred. That is why I always figured I seen some kittens in early kill season that wasn't much bigger than a muskrat. Figured she got denned up somewhere and didn't get bred tell the weather warmed and had a late litter. Don't know, just what I have been told over the years.

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I was always told they will have only one litter a year.. But with that said, was also told that they will keep recycling into heat untell they are bred or untell they catch from being bred. That is why I always figured I seen some kittens in early kill season that wasn't much bigger than a muskrat. Figured she got denned up somewhere and didn't get bred tell the weather warmed and had a late litter. Don't know, just what I have been told over the years.

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I think were you live would have to do with some of it. South is longer warm weather season wich is easier on them. If there system is not under the strain of harsh weather and they have a good food source I think it would make a big differance. I don't know this just guesing.

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how long does a sow carry her kittens?
well DUH it depends how far she is going. LOL

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how long does a sow carry her kittens?
well DUH it depends how far she is going. LOL

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Raccoons breed mainly in February and March, but matings may occur from December through June. The gestation period is about 63 days. Most litters are born in April or May, but some late-breeding females may not give birth until June, July, or August.

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10 years ago I killed two sows in the same area the same night and both where about to have kittens and it was mid September. I’ve treed some in December that looked like they were just weaned.

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Coons are only receptive for breeding once a year, but if they are not bred, they will continue to come back in heat every 28-30 days until they are bred.

So if you have a larger population of coons, there is a good chance a sow may not get bred the first time around. Same as deer. That is why you see such a difference in the size of kitten coon throughout the spring and summer.

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Coons are only receptive for breeding once a year, but if they are not bred, they will continue to come back in heat every 28-30 days until they are bred.

So if you have a larger population of coons, there is a good chance a sow may not get bred the first time around. Same as deer. That is why you see such a difference in the size of kitten coon throughout the spring and summer.

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where did you get your information??
the first part of your post ,i'd say a horse book,,

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how manny litters a year they can have but i do know most litters are fathered by more than one bore horny little suckers

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some coon that lack body conditioning during the breeding season will abort and breed back later in the spring..also if litters get killed for one reason or another the sows will breed back again the same yr. around here in the spring of the yr, farmers will empty there barns of old hay to make room for a new crop. in the process some litters found get killed.. and the sows will breed back, and you'll see some small kits in oct that only weigh 5-6 lbs.

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We killed a sow christmas eve that still had milk. A few days later my in-laws found five kittens poking around their house for scraps.

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http://www.wildliferescueleague.org/pdf/raccoon.pdf

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Wild Bill, I am just repeating what people who have devoted their life to studying taught us at a very well known Wildlife and Fisheries program, and what we observed in the field doing internships and mammal studies.

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i agree with you 100 percent here on my farm where we feed ower coon they will be bigger heather litters when they have all the feed they can eat espciley where we feed good dog food becalws that it is higher in proten than corn.the first time i took my girlfreand coon hunting we had been togeather then for 3 years and i took her on a night witch was 18 degrees cold night and my dog cold trailed for 35 minutes and treed and my freands dog went on and treed in a big deen witch the hole in the tree was wore verry slick and i garntee you his dog had a coon but like i said it was a den the coon my dog had treed we shoot it out to him and i swear it was onley mabey 2 pounds and as fat as it could be and this was in janurey in dead of winter and she told me that we had killed a babby i was amazed to see that and 2 this day i have never sean that again and never befor the coon was so littel it looked like it was robed out of a deen tree in the summer and in that area they onley had acorns to eat,and it had just been loged out and verry thick so i thought the coon was running like a gang of kittens in the summer and i am 49 years old and have hunted all my life and that night i will rember till the day i die and yes i brought it out and showed it to a lot of people.no i dont think it will ever happen again it must have just been a fluck of nather,that was just one crazey night and it was just one of them things you would have had to see to belive it happen,david boggs..ps i cant spell or type a lick and know that but i think most can make out wat i just typed and we also put goat pelets worrmer in the feed twice a year and that helps them have more and heather kittens as well belive it or not it is true and ower coon here bread in jan.and feb,some times they start late dec.just deponds on the weather and they are rutting right now

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