Subject: [Homestead] Trapping critters, was Shotgun size for homestead
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:53:06 -0700
The only reason I am considering a live
trapping/snare method is because there are eagles around here, and the
last thing I need is to kill a chipped eagle by accident.
I concur. I was given some steel jaw traps to use by my old
"hillbilly dirt-farmer friend," Farrell Berry when first I went to
live at Heartwood. I was battling night-feeding coons, possums,
weasels and other chicken lovers and having trapped in Wisconsin I
thought to give it a try. Farrell had his traps tied together in
pairs with wire and set them perhaps eighteen inches apart. He taught
that an animal in one trap may extricate itself but with two traps
tied together the animal would soon become immobilized. So I set the
traps. A week or so later I was dismayed to find I had caught a Great
Horned Owl. A rabbit had gotten caught in one of the traps, the owl
had come down for midnight dinner, then, while dealing with the
rabbit, had stepped onto the second trap pan.
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