Fox pic

[netboy]

5 hours ago, Terrierman said:

I've got an armadillo that's been tearing up the yard for months.  Want to trade your fox for my dillo?

We have trapped 8 dillos so far this year. I set a live trap in the area they have been rooting with no bait and line up a couple of 2x4's to make a funnel into the entrance. Stupid things find their way unto it.

[tjm]

1 hour ago, netboy said:

We have trapped 8 dillos so far this year. I set a live trap in the area they have been rooting with no bait and line up a couple of 2x4's to make a funnel to the entrance. Stupid things find their way unto it.

That's a good way, they seem pretty easy to funnel; and if you can fit a wood bottom to the cage/box trap they will scent the wood and other armadillos will enter it with less suspicion.  I'd trap them if their fur was worth more.

[netboy]

37 minutes ago, tjm said:

That's a good way, they seem pretty easy to funnel; and if you can fit a wood bottom to the cage/box trap they will scent the wood and other armadillos will enter it with less suspicion.  I'd trap them if their fur was worth more.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

[snagged in outlet 3]

6 hours ago, tjm said:

It's where most red fox live these days to avoid the coyotes.

I have coyotes too.  I posted a picture of one last year I think that was nearly bald from mange.    I live about a mile up the hill from the Missouri River bottoms.  

[Quillback]

Dillo road kill was really bad this year where I walk.  Trail runs alongside a busy road and when it was dry and hot they must have been out foraging as noted above.  Nothing beats a dillo that's been dead for two days when it is 95 out for real stink.  

[BilletHead]

6 hours ago, tjm said:

Is there a fur buyer near you? The last one near me  died a few years ago and no new ones. I can recall when I had a choice of 15-30 buyers within easy driving distance.

On armadillos, there must be a couple dozen within 300 yards of the house and during  the drought they were foraging nearly all day long. 

            Well, I like you know when there were many fur buyers all over. We had one that traveled from Joplin and went all over buying. He would buy one day a week in Schell City. I had a neighbor that bought from him also. Well between my trapper neighbor, Myself and my cousin plus the dog coon hunters he began to go to the neighbor's house weekly one evening. That became a hoot! Fur night. We would all gather in the basement near the wood burning stove telling stories until the buyer came and went. Special times with special friends. Out of that group I am last man standing. The fur buyers name was Gene Pearcy. You might have bought one time or another from him. So, my first fur sale was to a Bland from the town of Blackjack on the sac river and he bought at the sale barn Saturday morning in Nevada. My first gray fox. Sold some other fur to him after that. Then to Gene Pearcy and last to Bud Keller in Collins. Bud was a neat man. Just drove over to his fur house in Collins. Going in there were guys working for him scraping the meat and fat off of raccoons and opossums. The floor glistened with animal fat.  Fur drying hanging on stretchers from the rafters while on tables bundled together were dried furs of all kinds. I sold him two bobcats for 90 and 100 bucks. This was also about the time when we could start trapping for otter and catches still were rare, but they brought top prices also. Not long after that the market plummeted. 

    Nobody local buying that I know of.  A few years ago there was an Amish or old order Mennonite guy buying near Olympia not too far from me. He would buy whole unskinned furbearers and do the skinning. I heard he went under because he couldn't sell what he had at all. Market was that bad. 

[BilletHead]

4 hours ago, tjm said:

That's a good way, they seem pretty easy to funnel; and if you can fit a wood bottom to the cage/box trap they will scent the wood and other armadillos will enter it with less suspicion.  I'd trap them if their fur was worth more.

 

3 hours ago, netboy said:

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

      To both of you that is a fact. There are guys that sell and sell plans for wooden traps specifically for armadillo. Yes scented with armadillo poop and whatever. You can actually buy that stuff and scent your own trap. Many you tube videos on that. 

[Terrierman]

6 hours ago, netboy said:

We have trapped 8 dillos so far this year. I set a live trap in the area they have been rooting with no bait and line up a couple of 2x4's to make a funnel into the entrance. Stupid things find their way unto it.

I'll try that. Thanks for the idea.

[Terrierman]

Does this look about right?  Freshest diggings that I saw.  I'll add some wood to the bottom next.

 

[ness]

On 12/7/2024 at 3:29 PM, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I have coyotes too.  I posted a picture of one last year I think that was nearly bald from mange.    I live about a mile up the hill from the Missouri River bottoms.  

I'm about a mile south of the Kansas River. There's a little belt of forested land in the bottoms and up the slope, then all subdivisions with some smallish wooded areas scattered in around here. We had a mangy/gimpy coyote hanging around a couple years ago. He was under my neighbor's deck and behind our fence. I was glad when he disappeared. 

I miss the foxes.