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Post by Kyle on Mar 23, 2007 17:51:05 GMT -6
I'm off to a good start for this years ADC trapping around town for the little old ladies. ;D I got a call the other night from a lady that lives at the edge of town. She said the woodchucks are back again. I got 8 chucks, 2 possums and a coon from her place last year. I left the traps there for about two weeks and didn't catch anything so I thought they were gone for good. Do woodchucks disperse like beavers? Anyways, I got off to a good start. Set two traps yesterday at two fresh holes, and got a big male woodchuck today. Off to a good start this year... gophers, moles, and chucks.. Kyle
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Post by trappnman on Mar 24, 2007 9:11:48 GMT -6
we hardly have any woodchucks around any more. About the only time you see them anymore is in the rock cuts.
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Post by wcollinge2000 on Mar 24, 2007 10:19:25 GMT -6
yes wood chucks do move around . where I work we have to catch them as they dig and under cut the concrete and brick. they are constantly comming around it may take them some time to come but they do for most of the summer we have to trap them as they keep moving in. we may get 15 to 20 every summer.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 24, 2007 11:22:58 GMT -6
around houses? I haven't seen a woodchuck on one of my farms for many years. last one was that old dairy farm that used to be on 58 going out of Red wing- he had em in the machine sheds.
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Post by Kyle on Mar 24, 2007 12:34:27 GMT -6
This is an old brick building in a yard. The river is about 100 yards away, and a crick comes into the river about 100 yards from there. And I have chased woodchucks into big holes along that crick. They must just run all the river and crick or something. Hopefully they just keep filtering into the holes.
Nothing this morning. But I expect a few more in a week or so.
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Post by wcollinge2000 on Apr 5, 2007 19:56:12 GMT -6
were I work is a big brick bldg right on the river next to a bluff. in redwing ADM. there always digging under the bricks and cement undercutting it making it crack or cave in. We use live catch only but since there kind of shy you can corral them into there burrow and force them into the cage. By blocking it in so they have to go in the trap to find food. unless of course they have more than one burrow. then its just a matter of time before one ends up in the trap. Ya know steve I guess I havn't seen any or atleast don't remember if I have for a while except at work. seems like they come in three and more at a time. Its a big grain facility. make linseed oil.They must like the grain.
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