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A couple of years ago when we had a couple of nights of below zero temps, including one night where it hit -14, I hoped for a dillo die-off. It did not happen.

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Looks like it breaks Wednesday. 10 straight days of well above freezing.

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I had high hopes of the dillos getting cut down too. After all they are not suppose to be able to adapt to the cold. but I was up at my Daughters this weekend in Hermann Mo this past weekend. She tells me her neighbor killed one in her Yard about a week and a half ago.

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I saw several dead ones after that first extended cold snap, guessin this will kill some more. I think this snow on the ground for a week or more is what really hurts them. It cert*inly wont kill them all, but I bet it will help.

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I saw several dead ones after that first extended cold snap, guessin this will kill some more. I think this snow on the ground for a week or more is what really hurts them. It cert*inly wont kill them all, but I bet it will help.

I'm hoping you're right. I hate those things.

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I suppose it depends on who you read, but I've read a couple of articles that say a prolonged cold winter is hard on them. Some say they can only survive the cold for so long.

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I suppose it depends on who you read, but I've read a couple of articles that say a prolonged cold winter is hard on them. Some say they can only survive the cold for so long.

I bet you could say that about a lot of critters. And birds too. I would think this winter has been hard on quail for sure. I feed the birds at my home and it is amazing how much food they have been going through this winter.

Two winters ago, after we had a bad ice storm, guy down by us on the Meramec found three dead dillos under his canoe that was upside down and leaning against his porch.

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I heard that also and the conservation commission swears by it. But it looks to me like they have somehow done some adapting.

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