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  • From: Sam White <cedarrockcsa AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] groundhog crisis
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:28:55 -0700 (PDT)

Do you have alfalfa in your fields? Once are alfalfa
was done in our pasture fields, most of the ground
hogs went away. It seems their reproductive rates
diminished??

The others were met by our boxer/blue tick farm dog.
I think that shooting is really the most viable
option. A .223 or .243 caliber would be great for
this. I believe poisoning an animal is just too
cruel(but effective).

Sam
Western Md

--- Leigh Hauter <lhh AT hughes.net> wrote:

> my far field is having a major groundhog attack.
> Last night
> he/she/it wiped out over a hundred squash plants
> (apparently squash
> tastes better, to a groundhog, than the pac choi
> that was growing
> right next to it).
>
> What successes have you had in keeping groundhogs
> out of your fields
>
> any variations on the possibilities that I can think
> of:
>
> shooting (groundhogs are pretty wily critters)
> trapping (same as above)
> poisoning (I really hate to use poisons, but what
> works?)
> fencing out (what sort of fence works?)
> other deterrence ??
>
> That sound generator that was discussed earlier.
> Are people still
> haven't success with it?
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