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| How do you get rid of groundhogs for good. They are just getting a start on my cattle barn and want to stop before it gets out of hand. Trap, shoot or something else? Any good recipes? |
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swMN | Bubblegum, just throw a bunch out, they eat it , can't burp or pass it , they bloat up so bad they can't vget back in their hole. |
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North End I-15 | NH3 down the hole works wonders on all ground burrowing rodents .
I have a 200 Gallon Pig tank rigged up to do the job.
They will not re-inhabit the burrows for a year or more.
Caution using as it will kill the applicator in the right conditions . :<( |
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s.e. Pa | Conibear 220.
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nw NC | I would think that propane gas in the hole would do the job without the dangers of a little inhalation of it, as one would get from inhaling even a little NH3 ( anhydrous ammonia). Just don't be smoking or have a flame source nearby ! |
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Western-Central Lower Michigan | WJKEIGER - 6/23/2016 04:16
I would think that propane gas in the hole would do the job without the dangers of a little inhalation of it, as one would get from inhaling even a little NH3 ( anhydrous ammonia). Just don't be smoking or have a flame source nearby !
This works, just gas em, and cover the holes up. Its heavier than air and they suffocate. |
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Chaffee, Western New York | After the hole is empty, great stuff foam on a long hose to fill as much of the void. I've had luck by adding quick lime to the dirt at the entrance. Hydrated lime less so. They can smell a hole somehow and even years later a young one will show up and try to reopen it.
Next pole building I will see about adding cement board and wire lath below the splash board. |
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Altona Illlinois | The giant destroyer made by Atlas Corp. sold at our Farm King. It is a stick of sodium nitrate sulfur & charcoal which you light & put in the hole the smoke kills anything that breaths so use some care. |
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Ohio | This is really good advice . Once they get the odor in the ground you will be fighting them forever . I wish we could purchase glass shards to fill the hole with . I hate ground hogs , can you tell ?!! |
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High Springs, Florida | One of my uncles had an old worn out Farmall cultivating tractor, that he used to drive out to the ground hog holes, then stick a piece of flex exhaust tubing from the stack of the tractor to the entrance hole, and let it idle for about 15 minutes. |
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SCMN | jimjr - 6/22/2016 23:12 Bubblegum, just throw a bunch out, they eat it , can't burp or pass it , they bloat up so bad they can't vget back in their hole.
Does that really work? What brand to the prefer?
I'm currently dealing with the result of an idiot neighbor with an overgrown yard and a literal herd of woodchucks. It's nothing to drive past his yard and see 5-6 of them out in the yard. I live 1/2 mile away. Last weekend I drove in the yard and saw one run into my barn. Open the barn door and he's already got two holes under the concrete. Got him that night in a leg hold trap and fed him some lead for breakfast. I stopped in and talked to the neighbor and he's not going to do anything about the problem even though they are digging his place out from under him. He did give me permission to shoot them but the damn things are so skittish they run at the sight of my pickup. I wish I had time to just sit on a chair around dusk and snipe them. Can't poison them cause I might kill one of the 4 dozen inbred cats that call this place home. Maybe I should go the the animal rescue shelter and get a couple of the meanest dogs I can find and drop them off? Bubble gum would be easier. |
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Too close to Raleigh, NC | A friend of mine that runs summer cows in WV has an old MF35 we have used for that purpose. Ground exhaust makes it easier to hook up the metal dryer duct to. It was the first tractor on the farm and with the steering wore out it was not the best choice for pulling a mower but it did work well for gassing 'hogs. Seems like every time we would hook it up to the hole that we could find the smoke would eventually vent out of the escape hole that we hadn't found. He had a steep hillside behind one of his barns that he kept the weeds knocked down on but fenced off so the cows couldn't get onto it that must look like swiss cheese inside as many holes as it had dug in it over the years. |
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swMN | I've used hubba bubba or bubble yum, dad got some wrigleys bubblegum in the big square chunks, that worked too. Just throw out the chunks, don't even unwrap the pieces. |
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| I have filled the hole with gas and lit it. Usually does not kill them but it will run them out so you can shoot them. Obliviously not a wise choice near buildings though. I had a friend lost a shed full of hay when the flaming groundhog ran into his shed before he could shoot it. |
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