Skunks, Moles and Pocket Gophers

[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

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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?

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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.

[LEP]

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.

Back when I was in high school I shot a skunk in the barn. It didn't release any scent, so I skinned it. I left it hanging on the stretcher that I made in the shop for yrs. It was a great conversation piece. Mostly people couldn't believe I would skin one.

[Sheepwheat]

Back when I was in high school I shot a skunk in the barn. It didn't release any scent, so I skinned it. I left it hanging on the stretcher that I made in the shop for yrs. It was a great conversation piece. Mostly people couldn't believe I would skin one.

First thing I trapped n my life was a gigantic skunk. In a leg hold for coyotes. Shot it in the chest, never sprayed somehow. I got up the nerve and skinned it. Somehow I missed the scent glands and got it done scent free. Was a beautiful pelt. I should have had it tanned! Haven’t got the nerve to skin one since, but I also rarely have success avoiding discharge when shot, and I’ve shot a pile of skunks.

[Flatlander]

Think it’s called varmitgetter but it one line from your tanks injects a mix of propane and oxygen in the hole, another line has an igniter like your bbq, then remove the wand that has injected the mix. Cover hole with sand bag, press button on ignition switch and destroy the contents of the hole as well as collapse the burrow.

[burnt]

Back when I was in high school I shot a skunk in the barn. It didn't release any scent, so I skinned it. I left it hanging on the stretcher that I made in the shop for yrs. It was a great conversation piece. Mostly people couldn't believe I would skin one.

As I was unable to live-trap a persistent stripped visitor living in our barn, I eventually ended up shooting it outside the door.

I wasn't so lucky as LEP. Bad location.

Through weeks of rain, sun and winds, the stink stayed in the ground where he fell. I finally ended up taking two loader buckets of soil away and replacing it with fresh dirt. Problem solved.

Respect the strip!