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Post by budd on Dec 14, 2018 23:00:59 GMT -5
My son is home from college for a few weeks, we are going to get out a short line so hopefully we can get some pictures to share.
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Post by span870 on Dec 15, 2018 6:34:03 GMT -5
So I'm up to 63 mice and one rat out of the barn. Guess you can say I'm getting to be a pretty big deal in the trapping world. Anyone needs any trapping tips I'm always more than willing to help. I figure 30 more and I'll have a good start on a glove. Fleshing the skulls is a you know what on them little suckers.
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Post by butlerj on Dec 15, 2018 7:14:58 GMT -5
I've caught some rats, use to store sweet feed in 55 gallon plastic drum out in the barn I'd get it down to half full, push it over next to the counter top, rats would jump in but couldn't get out. Shoot em with a BB gun.
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Post by esshup on Dec 15, 2018 11:24:26 GMT -5
So I'm up to 63 mice and one rat out of the barn. Guess you can say I'm getting to be a pretty big deal in the trapping world. Anyone needs any trapping tips I'm always more than willing to help. I figure 30 more and I'll have a good start on a glove. Fleshing the skulls is a you know what on them little suckers. What are you using for bait on the snap traps (if that is what you are using)?
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Post by span870 on Dec 15, 2018 15:23:27 GMT -5
So I'm up to 63 mice and one rat out of the barn. Guess you can say I'm getting to be a pretty big deal in the trapping world. Anyone needs any trapping tips I'm always more than willing to help. I figure 30 more and I'll have a good start on a glove. Fleshing the skulls is a you know what on them little suckers. What are you using for bait on the snap traps (if that is what you are using)? Snaring and dirthole sets mainly. Honestly best is generic Velveeta. Sticks well and they have to fight to get it off. Tried peanut butter but the little jerks just licked it off.
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Post by span870 on Dec 15, 2018 15:26:49 GMT -5
I've caught some rats, use to store sweet feed in 55 gallon plastic drum out in the barn I'd get it down to half full, push it over next to the counter top, rats would jump in but couldn't get out. Shoot em with a BB gun. Do this every time the chicken feed gets low. Best was 21 mice at once. Just grabbed a hammer and starting swinging. First 19 were gravy since ya just swung the hammer. The last two took forever. Seen 19 of their buddies die, they were running for their lives. On a side note, chickens love mice. Throw one out in the middle of 50 chickens, it gets a bit brutal. They run but don't get far.
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Post by esshup on Dec 15, 2018 21:27:50 GMT -5
What are you using for bait on the snap traps (if that is what you are using)? Snaring and dirthole sets mainly. Honestly best is generic Velveeta. Sticks well and they have to fight to get it off. Tried peanut butter but the little jerks just licked it off. Thanks! I've been using the Victor snap traps that have the metal trigger that is rolled in a circle at the end, I push a Q-Tip swab in it, and break it off. Using peanut butter, the Q-Tip soaks up the peanut oil and they can't resist if all the peanut butter is gone.
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Post by welder on Dec 16, 2018 19:37:37 GMT -5
Snaring and dirthole sets mainly. Honestly best is generic Velveeta. Sticks well and they have to fight to get it off. Tried peanut butter but the little jerks just licked it off. Thanks! I've been using the Victor snap traps that have the metal trigger that is rolled in a circle at the end, I push a Q-Tip swab in it, and break it off. Using peanut butter, the Q-Tip soaks up the peanut oil and they can't resist if all the peanut butter is gone. I have had good luck with super gluing a piece of dog food to the trigger.
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Post by budd on Dec 21, 2018 17:08:17 GMT -5
Spent the day setting traps with Brian. We went back and checked a few rat house's and picked up six. Got a number of otter sets put in as well. Not many rats this year, otter numbers are high and Im guessing they are working on what rats we have. Found a few stretches around the lake where otter were destroying the rat houses.
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Post by esshup on Dec 22, 2018 17:03:29 GMT -5
That's a new one on me, I didn't think Otters were muskrat predators.
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 22, 2018 21:27:36 GMT -5
That's a new one on me, I didn't think Otters were muskrat predators. Mink take a toll on rats also.
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Post by budd on Dec 22, 2018 23:16:34 GMT -5
That's a new one on me, I didn't think Otters were muskrat predators. I think otter are tough on waterfowl nesting and young beaver as well...no proof, just what I’ve observed over the years. We found where the otter destroyed the muskrat house’s leaving blood spots on the ice with fresh otter skids leading away. Today we seen a otter laying on the ice where he came through a push-up.
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Post by varmint101 on Dec 23, 2018 13:01:47 GMT -5
Makes sense. Same thing with a fox and a coyote, or coyote and wolf, or black bear and a grizzly. Smaller animals competing for the same food source aren’t going to have it easy!
Finally put some traps out with my kids yesterday. Should’ve done it a long time ago, but I usually get wrapped up with deer hunting.
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Post by budd on Dec 23, 2018 16:10:43 GMT -5
Couple otter so far today, pics to come.
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Post by ms660 on Dec 23, 2018 18:27:30 GMT -5
What I mean is that if you deplete the number of coyotes in one area they will increase their number of pups and replace those that are lost adn also other coyotes from other areas will move into the empty area. And after a while the coyotes get smarter. If trapping could wipe out the coyoter population (Entire USA not just a small tract of land) they would be no coyotes left just as therea are no wild wolves left in states like IN. Trappers and hunters wiped out the wolves but they failed to wipe out the coyotes. Instead the coyotes population blossomed. So I'm talking about the big picures for coyotes in the entire USA. I base this on articles that i've read about this coyote situation. Remember most coyotes were located west of the Mississippi River. Now we have coyotes roaming around New York City and many of the Eastern States. It didn't take long for the yotes to take over either. I think the last years my dad and I trapped we just started to get into trapping yotes but it wasn't easy and at the time red and grey fox were pretty abundant. Think that was around 1986 when we really didn't do much trapping. So in about 30 years the yotes have taken over what the fox had. A wise man once said "There will be coyotes to gnaw the bones of the last man on earth"
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Post by ms660 on Dec 23, 2018 18:32:46 GMT -5
I've caught some rats, use to store sweet feed in 55 gallon plastic drum out in the barn I'd get it down to half full, push it over next to the counter top, rats would jump in but couldn't get out. Shoot em with a BB gun. Do this every time the chicken feed gets low. Best was 21 mice at once. Just grabbed a hammer and starting swinging. First 19 were gravy since ya just swung the hammer. The last two took forever. Seen 19 of their buddies die, they were running for their lives. On a side note, chickens love mice. Throw one out in the middle of 50 chickens, it gets a bit brutal. They run but don't get far. My best bait for snap traps for mice is to hot glue or super glue a peanut to the trigger. You can reset the trap many times without having to rebait them and they can't steal your bait without getting caught.
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Post by budd on Dec 23, 2018 21:46:33 GMT -5
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Post by esshup on Dec 24, 2018 0:10:59 GMT -5
Nice looking Otters!!
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Post by featherduster on Dec 24, 2018 5:21:15 GMT -5
What's a top lot Otter hide worth?
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Post by budd on Dec 24, 2018 10:02:41 GMT -5
What's a top lot Otter hide worth? $25....LOL. One of these otter will be going to Scrub-Buster to make into a arrow quiver.
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