Skunks, Moles and Pocket Gophers

[Sheepwheat]

Faint skunk scent is actually kind of pleasant to some. Including me and my family. But when you get the full shot it is pretty well indescribable, it is so intense is curls your toes. You kind of have to smell a scent to understand. Scents that are as unique as skunk scent is not easy to describe unless you experience it.

Yard skunks here get shot, they are hard on poultry. If a dog gets sprayed we have a recipe for de scenting it, so it isn’t that big a deal. Skunks do far more good than bad in nature, so outside the yard, we leave them be. The amount of insect pests, mice, rats, etc., they eat is astounding.

Which is why I kind of found the original post kind of amusing. Lol I think they’re a really cool little critter, and nice looking too. Unless they’re in the yard!

[TASFarms]

ammonium phosphide Pills. Drop one or two in the hole with a splash of water, cover and check the next day.

[Hopalong]

Father used to trap skunks for their skins, used to get seven dollars a skin, pretty good money in the thirties.
Used to put skins on stretchers in the chicken house for hens to pick fat off.
Had to not overdo it because of tainted eggs from skunk scent.
Hens used to stop laying in winter when pelts were prime.

[Horse]

If you have any marijuana smokers just stand down wind,thats what skunk smells like but way stronger it makes your eyes and nose sting , hard to wash off when you get sprayed. My uncle also t****d skunks in the 30s no one else was trapping them so he got good money,but he got very lonely by spring as no one wanted to get close to him.
There is a fellow traping them in sask uses conabear traps that quick kill and they dont smell if you are careful not to cut sent glands,and then draws sent from them and makes a lure for trapping other animals like martin,fisher,lynx.

[parsley]

We had skunks under the horse barn, poured ammonia down the tunnels, skunks gone, but we have a terrible infestation of moles and pocket gophers. How do you get rid of these tunnelling vermin?

I have a few good mole traps. One year, moles invaded the lawns. Aggressive. So my cat and I sat on the ATV and stalked the fresh dirt mounds. Set traps all day long, at intervals. I trapped 67 of them. In a week. The cat ate every one of them. Never had moles on the lawns since.

Also taught him to “sic” squirrels, so he would sit on the ATV seat, ready to spring, tail slightly twitching, & would suddenly lunge off the seat, then a short chase,
and come back with a squirrel. He ate them too.

I see some fresh hills in a field, I must tackle this summer,

Be very fastidious in your trap-setting. Careful. And precise. Pars

[6V53]

I use this for rodent control

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It takes them a couple weeks to train you not to flinch when they want to sit on your knee.

[sumdumguy]

How many ferrets in a litter?

[Sheepwheat]

How many ferrets in a litter?

That thing a weasel or a ferret? I see a black tip and it sure looks white to me?

[6V53]

That thing a weasel or a ferret? I see a black tip and it sure looks white to me?

Its a Weasel 1/4 the size of a Ferret.

[Sheepwheat]

Its a Weasel 1/4 the size of a Ferret.

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My boy traps weasels in winter. I forbid him from trapping near home! Brave little fellow that one.