Varmit contest

Steve-Yep-we've got badgers out here! Mostly catch them in the snares on the fenceline...just a major 'pain'!!

Tundra Ridge Whitetails said:

Ive cut my feed cost in half in the last two months. Started "culling" the tree rats and chippys. well over 100 in two months. Where do they keep coming from?

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Didn't you hear? They started growing on the trees!

We've got a huge issue with foxes out here... bunch of em in our buck pen, but them lil buggers are smart. They see you coming from half a mile away and book it so shooting them is out unless you're a good shot... destroy their den and they dig it back out. We finally gave up and sealed off our breeding pen good...first time a fox gets in there, we're going on a killing spree...but the boss says he looked out in the buck pen the other day and the fox was just walking along with the bucks and they weren't even curious...they both totally ignored each other.



Those foxes are pain to catch though...I hope they stay out of the breeding pen so I don't have to get creative...haha

The fox is easy to shoot with a caller. They don't seem to circle down wind either. At night with a caller they will step on your boots. I broke up the fox problem here last year. Get you a Foxpro Spitfire and enjoy mowing them down.

Robert - Was it a opossum ? I have gotten 17 ****, 3 opossum ,5 groundhogs, 4 chipmunks and a coyote so far this year. Over the years 13 dogs, 4 of them made it to the Dog pound and the other 9 I am not sure where they are at now????? SSS ! I am heading out now to get a groundhog that has been going in the pens in the evening.

Robert Bittinger said:

up date, i sat out a boul of marlin bate three or four nites ago an could`t find nothing dead untill to day.the boul was licked clean.to my supprize well, not to my supprize cause this stuff works really well.behind a board i found a rat like looking animal.i didn`t know anything like that was ever around here.i don`t know if it is a martin or a mink or what it is,all i know it was dead and very wormey,yek.robert

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This it? That's an opossum as suggested above...sounds like it to me based on your description.



I think I read they actually make good pets when raised from around birth...awful ugly creatures in the wild though...lol

Blackshire,

There are several companies that will come in and vacuum the buggers out of their holes. I know they do it with prairie dogs, I assume the same can be done with the GH. Happy Sucking!

Any rednecks out there need some squirrel tails for their antennas ?? Lol

Very funny Mitch. In the fall I used to see drake Mallard hens on the antennae too. That was before political correctness kicked into high gear. A couple of weeks ago I put some wood around a frame gate. It allowed something to squeeze through from one direction, but not the other. In the early morning I found a woodchuck in there and when I approached it tried to get through that spot and couldn't. When it went to the other end of the pen I stepped through the main entrance and grapped a pitchfork hanging in a tree. I removed the said varmint and haven't seen any additional digging on fences and gates.



The same thing happened in the next pen last year. I walked into a pen and found this pest three feet off the ground in a covered feeder eating to its hearts' content. A few years one got away when it climbed six feet of chain-link fence and squeezed through the field fence squares on the top. They are ultimate survivalists and I have seen them have six to eight young in one litter. They are not to be under-estimated. Especially when you have a nice garden in a small pen in the middle of your deer farm. I will post a picture of the garden in a few weeks where you will see deer on the other side of the fence licking their lips.

10 **** and 9 tree-rats....all out of one half acre pen. They sure can eat alot of feed. I started feeding in the morning and trapping at night so now, it seems, I am finally getting things under control.

I just read this post on a hunting site and thought I'd add this to this thread. "How do I kill a raccoon?"...answer from a Louisiana hunter; "you need a 2' 2x4, fully charged car battery, 4-5" insulated appliance cord ( both ends stripped), clean BBQ grate, large fish hook and a 3" nail. Drive the nail 1" in to the 2x4 what will be 18" from the ground. Set the 2x4 6-8" firmly in the ground (A corner of a wood buliding will work in the place of the 2x4). Next Place a piece of meat securely on the hook and attach to the very top of the 2x4 or about 18" off of the ground. This is bait only and needs to be hanging a couple inches from top of post and the same side as the nail. Position the BBQ grate on the ground on the nail side of the post. Next raise the grate slightly above the nail so that when the raccoon grasps the top of the grate to reach for the meat it's weight will cause the grate to slide downward causing it to make contact with the nail which has the positive connected cable tightly wrapped around it. The negative terminal should be grounded by a suitable grounding rod..now you are ready to transport the dead **** and the BBQ grate back to the BBQ, only needing to skin, dress, and season." I'll admit, I added my own twist at the very end!

Who knew skunks liked to sleep under brush hogs? I started up the tractor Saturday and spit one out and two more got away, one injured. Incidentally, they don't like to be shredded but I also learned they can go through a 3x3" square on a deer fence! Big ones, too...

8 coyotes and to many ***** to count. Coyotes are really coming in to the fawn distress calls around here. My family has declared war on them. The family has probably killed twenty yotes in the last month. They are getting hard to find!

I found a new way to get ***** and possums that works great. Dig a hole 4 feet deep no a 45 degree angle and place a 8 - 10 inch stove pipe in the hole. Put shrimp or crawfish heads in the pipe. They will go down the pipe to get to the feed but can not climb out. I have put four of these in the woods and have something in at least two every morning.

You can try making a cubby set OUTSIDE the pen and put a pie plate in it. Just put a few TBSP. of Golden Malrin with rootbeer in the plate. The next morning you can find multiple ***** very close to the cubby. They don't make it far and you just want to make sure you hide the plate well so you don't get any unwanted targets with this. It is more humane than a trap.

Are you sure it's not a small fisher???We have lot's of them in this neck of the wood's!!!

That sounds like a juvenile female fisher to me. The males are much darker and larger. If you catch it be careful. They are 100 % muscle and if they weighed 75 lbs. the human race would have been extinct many years ago.

Shot 3 **** out of the tree right above the feed bunk one night at dusk. Caught 2 **** together in the livetrap...must have walked in side by side. 18 **** so far...it's getting hard to keep track, I'm running out of fingers and toes.

It sounds like a mink. Try using liver as bait. Trap it in a live-trap and relocate it several miles away in a creek or stream. That is where they belong.

My final count for the year....28 *****, 10 squirrels, and 2 rabbits. Caught them all in a livetrap and relocated them to a better place for us all! It made a huge difference on the feed consumption.