Go-fer
Scribbled by Art on February 21, 2010 11:41 pm
I have something in common with Bill Murray – no, its not grey hair… its pesky gophers. We seem to have a bumper crop of ‘em in the fields this year.
I didn’t have much luck with the water hose down the hole trick in the past few months, plus its hard to do far out in the fields. But the gophers are now causing problems for the horses due to the large/deep holes. So, the tools I have at hand are:
and:
The pups show great enthusiasm about getting the gophers:
They are more like inefficient badgers in terms of the dirt flingin’ around (but far friendlier than your average badgers).
For now, I’m sticking with the traps since they are starting to be successful. I need to get some help from a neighbor to get some gopher poison pellets (the type that won’t be harmful to the horses, cats, birds, etc).
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