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Busy Beaver Lumber · July 15, 2015, 09:23:21 PM

Have never had problems with chipmunks before, but this year they are all over the place and being very destructive to the wife's flowers and making a terrible mess with the mulch

Got a few have a heart traps and have caught 27 of them in the past 3 weeks thanks to their love of crunchy peanut butter. I then take them for and nice car ride to a protected wetland a few miles down the road and release them, so I know they are not the same ones being caught over and over.

Anyone else having problems with Chipmunks this year?

POSTON WIDEHEAD · July 15, 2015, 09:51:23 PM

Are you dumping them close to Jeff's house? :D :D :D
Wasn't he having problems too?

Peter Drouin · July 15, 2015, 09:56:27 PM

Problem chipmunks. :D :D :D :D :D

Jeff · July 15, 2015, 10:16:13 PM

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,84263.0.html

Chuck White · July 16, 2015, 06:44:30 AM

We had problems with them since Spring, and then we got serious with them and through a process called 410, we haven't seen one in around 3 weeks!

GAB · July 16, 2015, 08:17:48 AM

Quote from: Chuck White on July 16, 2015, 06:44:30 AM
We had problems with them since Spring, and then we got serious with them and through a process called 410, we haven't seen one in around 3 weeks!

I think Jeff's solution works 24-7 is thriftier, less noisy, & less messy.
But what ever works for you as it is your problem.
Gerald

r.man · July 16, 2015, 08:33:54 AM

I find this thread very interesting as we had a severe chipmunk problem last year. This year I have only had two or three sightings of the little tree rats. All sorts of people were rat trapping them last year but I haven't heard a single complaint this summer. Same with mice, last summer the traps were selling out constantly in the local store and I was keeping multiples set all the time. I don't have one set this year.

sprucebunny · July 16, 2015, 04:44:44 PM

In 15 years living in this house, I've had major mouse problems and solved that and major flying squirrel problems and fixed that.
The red squirrels were very aggressive several years and a porkypine ate the hemlock top right off the second floor porch.

The only rodent that hasn't had it's moment of fame and loathing is chipmunks :D
Of all the animals mentioned, they are the only things I haven't shot at ;D

clww · July 16, 2015, 04:51:58 PM

That community blanket idea in my head keeps getting bigger.

goose63 · July 16, 2015, 05:21:30 PM

I have gopher's I sit in the shade with the 308 when I see dirt come out of the hole the gopher come's out of the hole and the cat's eat good

21incher · July 16, 2015, 08:51:27 PM

I have a weasel this year that seems to be handling my chipmunk and baby rabbit problems lately.

beenthere · July 16, 2015, 08:56:29 PM

Now that you mention a weasel, I've been trying to think what it may have been that took out a skunk here a couple days ago. Found the long fur/hair from a skunk but no other remains.
Nothing but a slight skunky odor, but smell and hair was certainly that of a skunk.
Maybe a coyote??
Maybe a weasel??

r.man · July 16, 2015, 10:24:26 PM

Spruce, you didn't mention skunks. If anyone has a skunk problem I can describe an easily built wooden trap that allows you to safely trap, carry and release a skunk into another location without the risk of spraying.

Goose do you get large numbers of gophers on your property?

WmFritz · July 17, 2015, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: clww on July 16, 2015, 04:51:58 PM
That community blanket idea in my head keeps getting bigger.

... maybe the pelts could be sewed into shirts for Busy Beaver Lumber to embroider? ;D

I've got a family of foxes hanging around the house this year. They are welcome to me for my critter control, especially my munk problem. Unfortunately for one kit, last week my pregnant poodle got a hold of it and I couldn't call her off quick enough.

In fact, the poodle has a better score on munks then I do with my bucket trap.

sprucebunny · July 17, 2015, 06:52:29 AM

r.man, no skunks.

I think I have a weasel, also. I see them once or twice a year. Boy, do those things move fast

I leave an old frozen chicken leg out for them occaisionally in the winter.
But then when I think about it... why do I still have a few chipmunks and zero red squirrels ?

goose63 · July 17, 2015, 07:32:07 AM

r.man those pesty pocket gophers are all over the place

r.man · July 17, 2015, 11:38:54 AM

I knew a dairy farmer who controlled the ground hog population with some kind of a rifle with a 308 brass and a 22 lead. Had a muzzle velocity close to a meteorites entry speed and a 15 power scope. Read a story a few years ago in the Farmshow magazine about gophers and traps. I had no idea their numbers were so high in fields. www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=20242

goose63 · July 17, 2015, 01:02:32 PM

r.man when I was 13 or 14 I got $1.00 a gopher bought 15 a day man 500 a day I would of been in tall cotton

beenthere · July 17, 2015, 02:06:06 PM

r.man
Believe they are called "wildcat" and according to Wikipedia, many combinations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_cartridge

Magicman · July 17, 2015, 02:50:43 PM

Quote from: r.man on July 17, 2015, 11:38:54 AM......with some kind of a rifle with a 308 brass and a 22 lead.

Remington Accelerators

sandhills · July 17, 2015, 04:03:52 PM

We have them terrible, especially in established alfalfa fields, only problem with them is the mounds they leave plug the windrower all the time, it's the badgers that go after them that leave the big holes and do the damage. Dad caught something like 72 of them in traps (I think he was using 12) one year in about 2 days after we had mowed the hay, he didn't even get 100' into the field :-\, apparently they like sand. Funny story, met a guy at a lake we camp at and he asked me what was making all the mounds in his yard, I said pocket gophers, turned out he was an ag college professor, thought maybe he'd of known that one :

, I did tell him how to get rid of them.

r.man · July 17, 2015, 04:47:49 PM

I did a bit of research on line and there are lots of drags etc designed specifically to knock down the mounds in the spring before the hay gets very high. Most of the mounds are created in the spring so knocking them down in early summer cuts down on machinery problems during harvesting.

gfadvm · July 17, 2015, 09:23:03 PM

My place was covered with gopher mounds when I bought it 20 years ago and in less than 30 days, I had eliminated all the gophers. I think the tool to deposit gopher bait below ground is called a Gopher Stopper. The poison is all underground and I have never seen a dead gopher (I was worried about poisoning my JRT). It is surprising how few gophers it takes to create a huge mess.

When new gophers move in from the neighbors, they will use the existing tunnels and be poisoned from the previously deposited bait.