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thendrix 
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Posted: 07 Nov 2023 at 5:12pm |
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Any of you fellas ever dealt with armadillos? Got them at the farm and they're doing a fair job of tearing up my grass. I've shot 3 but I have to catch them up there to be able to do that. Is there something I can put out to run them off or is it a buy some night vision and go wait? Think there's a opossum or two mixed in also
Edited by thendrix - 07 Nov 2023 at 5:13pm
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 07 Nov 2023 at 5:40pm |
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Tearing up your grass is the least of the problems. They burrow under buildings, in the pasture and hay fields,etc and cause lots of damage. I am overrun with them at the farm. Gassing them in using a hose running from an exhaust pipe into the burrow is supposed to kill them. I need to rig up a hose and try it. Propane shot down in the hole and ignited should do it too, but I don't want to risk blowing up the barn or burning it down. I'll leave that to Ole Shameless.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2023 at 6:54pm |
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22 mag.
Focus on the areas they’re tearing up. They’ll come back to it at night.
Set a 2:00am alarm and get up and watch.
Do you have a dog?
Big dogs seem to keep them away.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 07 Nov 2023 at 11:50pm |
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NH2 down the holes will gits them FAST!
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DiyDave
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 4:17am |
possum on the half shell...
Probably looking for grubs, kill the grubs and the dillas go away.
With apologies to king George...
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thendrix
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 5:55am |
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Definitely a good supply of grubs around here. Guess we'll start there. Thanks everybody
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 6:55am |
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Permethrin mixed with crop oil. mixed at 3oz per 10-gallon water. takes about 3 months to work. Sprayed for tick infestation is how I discovered. During fall CRP mowing found here a diller, there a Diller, everywhere a dead diller. Had one that was rooting that just fell over dead.
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DMiller
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 7:43am |
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Have our share of the burrowing pests. As see them in pasture load up the 243. They leave by carrion air vulture flights. Usually on a dead one in a day.
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thendrix
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 7:49am |
Air vulture flight 
Edited by thendrix - 08 Nov 2023 at 7:49am
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Darwin W. Kurtz
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 3:16pm |
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our large dog Buddy has killed several
Good Buddy!
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thendrix
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 9:28pm |
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And the plot thickens...
I drive around the farm about every night just to check. As I turned the corner at the back of #1 and looked through some open fan shutters I saw a water nipple had come loose and flooded about a 10 x 10 section of the house. Went and got a shovel and a bucket. I parked the truck with the brights on so I could see when I came out with the buckets and when I came out with the first one, there stood Mr Dillo between me and the truck where my pistol stays. He scampered off down the hill and I dumped 7 or 8 buckets of soupy wet chicken sh!t down the hill right where he went. I hope I flooded his living room. I'm going to bed now
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Clay
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Posted: 08 Nov 2023 at 10:55pm |
Blame the lack of control of our southern border. The illegals brought their pets with them
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Posted: 09 Nov 2023 at 2:19pm |
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We had woodchuck problems when growing pumpkins. Easiest was CO down the dens and cover the exits.
Hawks and coyotes where I'm at now keep them in check. Plus I keep watch and don't let them get a beachhead started.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2023 at 7:12pm |
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Have them at my farm also . Friend went over with his son and killed 16 . Said they were everywhere . Went back next day ,both armed and got another 10 . Stacking them up and now hunting coyotes . Got three of those before dark .
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