Ground hog

ILLEFTY · Jun 12, 2009

Going to town this morning to get parts when something ran across the road in front of me. It looked familar, but I drove a couple miles before I realized it was a young ground hog. It's been a while. Not near the population like 40 years ago

keh · Jun 12, 2009

Want some fire ants to go with them?

KEH

buickanddeere · Jun 12, 2009

Seen young ones out on the 21 of May. They run around the power plant property and live under the buildings.
Coyotes have thinned out the rabbits and everything else that used to be plentiful.

DoubleR · Jun 12, 2009

They have are not as plentiful around my place either thanks to my two connibear 220's.

OliverGuy · Jun 12, 2009

I agree, I never had too much luck until I borrowed a few connibears. I would only ever get raccoons in a live trap.

2x4 · Jun 12, 2009

in mid tenn. coyotes have cleaned groundhogs out of the country. Only place you see'em now (mostly runover) is in town where the dogs protect'em. Dogs seldom trackle'em but coyotes have no second thoughts.

Bus Driver · Jun 12, 2009

Here they burrow under buildings, their hole is not accessible to set the Conibear 220. So I use the Conibear with the bucket setup. Problem is that I have found no bait that works with the groundhog. Raccoons will go for almost any bait. I tried peanut butter, marshmallow, vanilla wafer, peanuts in shell (squirrels or chipmunks slipped by the trigger and got those), watermelon slices. I am out of ideas. But I did hit one with my truck last week- did it on purpose.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 12, 2009

got 45 of the buggers last year just put a conibear or a havahart in front of the hole and they walk right in no bait needed, they sure make a mess in the hay fields. Hit as many as you can.

MarkB_MI · Jun 12, 2009

We have a family of them living a little too close to my wife's garden. She's been pestering me to thin them out with the .22-250, but these guys know better than to show themselves when we step outside the house.

buickanddeere · Jun 12, 2009

Apples work well.

kyplowboy · Jun 12, 2009

Most of the ground hogs around here any more that you see on the road will run you off in the ditch with them new ford one tons they drive.

Oh, you were talk'n about the other kind.

20 years ago when I was a kid you could go out and kill 4 or 5 any time you wanted to but coyotes got thick I went for years with out seeing one. Guess them song dogs are good for something. The last few years I have started seeing a few around, nothing like they used to be but a few. There is one I see here at work in the bean field across the road, guess all the coyotes around here have got'n too fat eat'n chickens to care about ground hogs.

Dave

dieselpup · Jun 12, 2009

apple slices or lettuce in the back of the havahart. That will get"em

mmidlam · Jun 12, 2009

I have had good luck using a 1 1/2 foot tall plywood wall with conibears. Run the plywood around equipment, porches or make a straight run where ground hogs run. Leave a foot wide space for them to walk though and set the conibear there.

Paul from MI · Jun 13, 2009

Reduced the population by 3 so far this spring. 12ga. seems to slow 'em down but you have to be patient and get close to them. Got a live trap and tried dog food for bait. So far all I got was a possum and one very mad neighbor cat. Darn things burrow under buildings and make a real mess.
Paul

Dean Barker · Jun 14, 2009

Unwrap a bag of Double-Bubble bubble gum and scatter it around the hole. They eat it, it plugs them up, and no more ground hog. Got this tip from this forum a couple of years ago. It really works.

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