What a Fox

[BeanMan]

Not what you expected? We run box traps every day of the week to attempt to control Raccoons. Sometimes we catch interesting critters. Today's catch was this fox, which I released. Last year we caught a coyote pup which was not released live.

We also had a baby coon this morning, it was not released.

 

[elkantlers]

Fox's are just as bad a coons if your trying to protect birds. What are you trapping them for?

 

[BeanMan]

We trap for raccoons because they get into the corn variety trials that we conduct. Even with sweet corn buffers planted on the edges they will find 'sweeter' grain varieties and wipe out all 4 reps in our experiments. It is hard to fix that with statistics.

 

[Longbow6360]

I grew up on a mink/alfalfa/dairy/potato/corn farm and I know what you mean about racoons tearing down the corn.


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[eldorado]

Nice coat on that fox. Should have put him down and kept the pelt.

Eldorado

 

[LESGO54]

good deal, i kill all coons i catch also

 

[BeanMan]

Eldorado,

It's been pushing 100 for a month. I'll wait for January to take a pelt.

 

[HunterHarry]

I get the grays in my garbage about once a week, either them or coons.

 

[Tikka]

Hey BeanMan what ya use for bait if ya don't mind me askin?

 

[BeanMan]

I just got back from changing water at the farm. I caught another fox, or maybe the same one. What is weird is that I've been trapping on this farm for 23 years now and yesterday was the first fox, today the second.

Tikka,

We mostly use the $.37 generic cat food from City market. Oily tuna works well too. I save our choice dinner scraps and use them as well. Racoons seem to really like BBQ pork ribs with the meat gnawed off.