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Spring work done. Now to the GROUNDHOGS!

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Planting, hay, spraying, and grain hauling done. Now I am ready to move on to the groundhogs. What really upsets me is how large of an area of soybeans they have eaten. I replanted the area once. Yesterday I found the beginnings of a hole in my new machine shed with a gravel floor. They seem to always want to dig in my old shop. Lastly, I see a new hole by the basement door on the house. So, I know about the conibear trap and how to use that. But what are some other relatively successful deterrents or methods of extermination? Thanks for your ideas.
 
The problem you have is why any more when I go out to cut/rake/bale hay I have a gun on my side. A few days ago if I had, had that gun I would have had one less ground hog. I carry a 22mag 6 shot single action revolver
 
I have an old generator with a single cylinder gas motor. I attached a hose to the exhaust and gas gophers. Seams to work fairly well. I don't have any new gopher mounds. I pull it around with a hand truck. Stan
 
I got a couple grown Australian shepherds a couple years ago and they seem to taken care of the groundhogs and about any thing else that shows up around the farmstead. I saw a forum discussion on groundhogs a while back and they recommended using bubble gum to get rid of them.
A friend of mine just lights a fusee and tosses in the hole.
 
Black mouth cur dog, once he is aware of the ground hog, he wil hunt it incessantly. Mine also eats the groundhog, saving me on dog food.
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Nabbed a mouse here and didn't want to give up his trophy.
 
Since coyotes arrived here there are very few in the fields but still get some under the buildings. These old traps work well but IDK if they are made any longer.
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You must not have coyotes around,about the only good thing about coyotes moving into my area has been that they have about cleaned out the ground hogs,skunks and feral cats.
 
(quoted from post at 19:24:49 06/29/22) Pour old drain oil down the hole.
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Please elaborate on how that works. I would think that the oil would just soak down through the soil and into the ground water way before it got to where the ground hogs spend their time.
 

Stumbled acrossed this breed after we lost an old lab. Best squirrel dog we've ever had! Good mannerisms as well.
 
Dot has taken care of 6 for me so far around the barns..2 mature, 4 young.

When we go down there, she checks all the holes, sneaking up on them. I know when she's spotted one, she starts stalking.

She thought chickens were a problem, couple jolts with the collar stopped that.

She does still hunt chicken.... McChicken sandwiches
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I helped my grandfather burn a lot of them out. Five gallons of water down the hole to wet everything down, followed by one gallon of gasoline and a lit match. Worked every time. Obviously we didn't do it close to buildings.

USE THIS METHOD AT YOUR OWN RISK............ but that's how we did it fifty years ago. Very effective, and even if they aren't in the hole when you do it, they won't return to the hole because of the soot and gas smell.
 
Give them cheap bubble gum at entrance to burrow, at least around the buildings. It is safe except for the ground hogs that eat it.
 
Me and my sister used to fill the sprayer tank and go flood them out back when I was a teenager.
Time consuming, but if their in there , they normally came out.
Ya need to really put the water to the holes fast and be ready when they came out.
Funny what we did for entertainment back in the day.....lol
 


I got one with lead this AM. It came out from under the breezeway not 15 minutes after my wife left. I had tried the Have a Hart baited with peanut butter for a week without a nibble. I tried bubble gum. They just pushed it out with the pebbles even though I had opened the wrap. I can't use holding traps due to neighbor's cats. The woodchucks can't resist my fresh white clover though.
 
I can't use the rifle at our rental place in Pontiac. I use a live trap baited with an apple split in half. It might take a couple of days, but sooner or later they take the bait.
 
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