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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] stiff squirrels
  • Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:36:43 -0500

At 08:09 PM 9/26/2006, Alan wrote:
Seeing as how the plaster is mixed half and half with oily peanut
butter I'm going to agree with Lucky Pittman that it probably doesn't
really set up in their guts. It would be an easy experiment to try.
Take one of the finished plaster/peanut butter balls and mix it with
the requisite amount of water. I'm pretty sure it won't actually set
up.

Alan,
I think I did that a year or so ago - dropped a couple of the 'bonbons' in a pan of water - and nothing seemed to happen.
POP is Calcium sulfate hemihydrate, a derivative of gypsum - I'm not a chemist, and it's been 25 years since my college chemistry courses, so I don't know what sort of reaction it would carry out with gastric acids, pancreatic secretions and bile, etc.
Perhaps placing a few in a hydrochloric acid solution approximating gastric pH would give a more realistic approximation?

When I've used the PB/POP bonbons in the past, I only saw one dead squirrel - and I didn't perform a postmortem exam on it - but pilfering of seednut beds and potted seedlings ceased almost immediately.

Lucky




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