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bukhntr
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# Posted: 23 Dec 2014 04:57pm
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Every couple of years I have trouble with a lone beaver making its way into our pond. Has been a young lone male and they have decimated our young oaks around the cabin and a few large ones too. I tried all resources to first trap and relocate but have had to kill them in the end. Seems it will be an ongoing problem. We live a couple of hours away so just have been lucky to catch the one so far. We have to monitor traps every 24hr in Kansas so most of the time we are not there more than one over night. I'm thinking of wrapping whats left I want to save with hardware cloth wire mesh. any other ideas??
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 23 Dec 2014 06:22pm
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I have seen metal, like that old single wall stove pipe with the seam, snap it over. I see that used ot keep squirrels from gettign cones from a seed tree also. Might be spendy. Oaks and acorns are great for hunting. Seems everything likes acorns. 
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FishHog
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# Posted: 23 Dec 2014 06:39pm
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wrap in chicken wire, but be sure to go high enough to address the wintertime if you get snow. I lost a tree to that issue my first year at my cottage, but since then all is good.
although I thin the beavers out every chance I get to keep them under control.
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razmichael
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# Posted: 23 Dec 2014 07:03pm
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Quoting: FishHog to go high enough to address the wintertime
Made the same mistake - thought I was high enough but did not consider the 3 ft of snow on the ground. The oversized rats took down a number of trees high up above the wire.
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jbos333
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# Posted: 23 Dec 2014 08:45pm
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Is there a local who traps for a hobby?
I have trapped 12 or so myself one season when I let them get out of control....
But there is a guy who likes to trap for something to do and a little pocket change who traps at my place now. So far he got an 85 lb. female but there's still more in there.....
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old243
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# Posted: 24 Dec 2014 09:20am
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If you got the female beaver you should be able to catch the kitts at the same location. use a bit of the castor from the female , they will come to her scent. I assume you are using a diving set and a conibear. put the castor in a tree beyond the trap. Trapping and shooting are the most effective.
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crchaumont52
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# Posted: 27 Jan 2015 12:26am
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What a happy problem all of you are having!
All those crazy little creatures trying to teach that planting water is a very good idea. We just don't get it.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 27 Jan 2015 08:58am
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Quoting: crchaumont52 What a happy problem all of you are having! All those crazy little creatures trying to teach that planting water is a very good idea. We just don't get it.
Its always nice to support it on other peoples property at their expense. 
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bukhntr
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2015 11:52pm
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Well got the beaver out last weekend, it was another lone male but much larger than the other. It went close to 30Lb. I have the wire to wrap the trees. That's next. We have a feeder creek the pond dumps into. It feeds the main tributary that's about 1/4 mile away. It seems we get a single beaver move into the pond about every other year so I guess I should be glad its not full families
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Littlecooner
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2015 06:20am
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They are usually out a daylight and dusk, so the best control is the 12 gage or a centerfire rifle with a shot to the head. One beaver can damage a lot of trees in a short time. good luck, if you only get a loner every year or so, looking for a new place to raise a family, take the time to spent time meditating by the pond near dark and as it come daylight when you are there, and keep the rifle handy on these meditation times. It will greatly improve your outlook on life.
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Jim in NB
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2015 06:26am
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I hope you are not wasted the beaver. In the early 80s at a treeplanting camp in northern Ontario was introduced to beaver (tenderloin and legs) cut up and fried with onions and mushrooms - it was a great great meal!
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old243
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# Posted: 10 Apr 2015 01:22pm
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A big active beaver colony( family ) , consists of an adult male and female . They mate for life. The female will have a litter of kits in spring. Likely three to five depending on the age of the female. The yearlings also remain in the colony, as well, by this time they will be 15 to 20 pounds. In the second spring they become sexually mature and leave or are chased out of the colony. These are the ones that you find in odd places in the early spring . As they go searching for a mate, and establish a new colony. Quite an interesting animal. As long as they are not being a nuisance. I have trapped, for a lot of years, although not as much lately. old243
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