12 groundhog holes !

olgentdc · Nov 5, 2023

How is the best way to eradicate them ?I have been taking live animal traps out there with the FEL and tractor. set them up next to a active hole , using peanut butter and bread , Caught a raccoon , i week , next day got a female , and then a durnskunk ... but in last 2 weeks it turned cold here and nothing ,,.

rustred · Nov 5, 2023

Take a 20 lb propane bottle and tiger torch out there and give them some propane down the hole. Its heavier than air and should put them to sleep.

RedGreenGuy · Nov 5, 2023

Pour 5 gal hog manure down the hole

37 chief · Nov 5, 2023

There is something called a Rodeador. It puts propane down the hole then lights it. You can see the thing on internet. Stan

the tractor vet · Nov 5, 2023

They won't let ya play with what really works anymore dynemite . half stick down the hole pack some dirt in and POOOOFFFF all gone hole and tunnels filled in .

old · Nov 5, 2023

Pour some gas in each hole and then carefully light each of them up. Good chance you will only need to do so in a couple since the others will light up.

john in la · Nov 6, 2023

While I am not one to advocate a slow death by starvation.

Ground hogs are starting to hibernate this time of the year. Reason you have not seen any since it turned cold. The way they survive the winter is with a very low heart rate and living off body fat. A big reason trying to suffocate them by filling in the hole or putting things like gasoline or propane down the hole have limited success this time of the year.

What you need to do is give it a few weeks to let the cold set in and then find a way to wake it up. It will be to weak to forage for food and the increased heart rate of being awake will cause it to burn excessive fat. It will not survive the winter as it will starve to death.

How you wake it up is on you but I would try flooding the hole with a water hose stuck down below the frost line.

4520BW · Nov 6, 2023

back in my younger days i open the gate on the honey wagon into a hole and a few min later hog $hit was running out of a hillside into the road!

showcrop · Nov 6, 2023

(quoted from post at 20:38:12 11/05/23) There is something called a Rodeador. It puts propane down the hole then lights it. You can see the thing on internet. Stan

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BarnyardEngineering · Nov 6, 2023

(quoted from post at 21:59:17 11/05/23) Pour some gas in each hole and then carefully light each of them up. Good chance you will only need to do so in a couple since the others will light up.

With my luck the on-fire woodchuck will come flying out of the hole and run straight to the nearest building...

glennster · Nov 6, 2023

220 connibear trap over the hole. if you have other critters around , put a small fence around the hole to keep cats and dogs away from the trap.

teddy52food · Nov 6, 2023

It may be too late as they are going into hybernation but putting lye in their holes will get rid of them. They get it on their feet which causes burning & when they lick it they will head for water never to come back to those holes again. Works good for skunks too.

mrslesq · Nov 6, 2023

When they are active put a few pieces of cheap bubble gun around the holes every few days until they stop eating it. I don't even take the paper off anymore.

560Dennis · Nov 6, 2023

I put pinwheels at the opening of the holes . They are curious,like to watch them spin up on hind legs making an excellent picture in the redfield tv screen

Leroy · Nov 6, 2023

We just used the exaust pipe of the 2N Ford and a piece of flexable pipe long enought to put into the hole and fill with dirt around the pipe and start tractor and let idle for a half hour, no harm to animels you want.

DanielW · Nov 6, 2023

That's what I do as well. Got sick of waiting for them to pop their head out to shoot, so now I just put an exhaust pipe down there and find something else to work on for half an hour. Even if they have a second escape hole, the fumes are denser than air and will settle down in there and knock them out. The older/less efficient the engine, the better. Ford 2N or Fordson Major work well for me. A modern car/truck exhaust with all its fancy emission control paraphernalia doesn't produce the unburned hydrocarbons or NOx loveliness you want to really knock them out.

MARK ROBKE · Nov 6, 2023

3/4's of these methods won't work for me because they tried to live in my hay barn-under all the round bales. Ruined the floor. My best success was with conibear traps. The problem with traps is black headed vultures dragging trap and carcass away to never never land, even when tied down.

GeneMO · Nov 6, 2023

Pour about a half gallon of gasoline down each hole. by the time you make the circuit, enough time will have elapsed. Stand back and throw a match in one hole. You should get a big "WOOOOOOF" and flames shoot up about 5' out of each hole. It works. Carry a stick or shovel. Every once in a while a "gassed" groundhog will make a break for it. Nice to have a border Collie handy.

Gene

PS if you dont get em all, it is still fun and beats watching commercials on TV! :lol:

showcrop · Nov 7, 2023

(quoted from post at 17:52:51 11/06/23) Pour about a half gallon of gasoline down each hole. by the time you make the circuit, enough time will have elapsed. Stand back and throw a match in one hole. You should get a big "WOOOOOOF" and flames shoot up about 5' out of each hole. It works. Carry a stick or shovel. Every once in a while a "gassed" groundhog will make a break for it. Nice to have a border Collie handy.

Gene

PS if you dont get em all, it is still fun and beats watching commercials on TV! :lol:

The only problem with this method is that gasoline is a thin liquid and flows down through the floor of the hole pretty much as well as down the hole. chances are it will quickly soak, away probably within 16 inches of your gas can.

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