beavers

mike/holly jones · Nov 10, 2015

got beavers blocking my 16" culvert, they work both ends. i have trapped 4 so far, installed chicken wire on both ends and they still block it. the water is cold and no fun to unplug it, it"s 24 ft in length.
any ideas ??...mike

Traditional Farmer · Nov 10, 2015

Keep trapping(LOL)

Mike M · Nov 10, 2015

Guy here at work has them at his house. They even plugged his culverts with really big rocks ! He had someone come and trap several. That may slow them down for awhile.

RLA · Nov 10, 2015

Short of getting the government involved on changing the water flow?

God didn't create a better creature for stopping water flow, they are
truly amazing to watch, hard working & great engineers.

As noted, Keep Trapping....

TimV · Nov 10, 2015

They certainly can be pesky critters, but if you've got room, one proven method is to enlarge the mouth of the culvert. Basically, you go out in a trapezoid shape from the culvert with something like T-posts and chicken wire like this: o/ (pardon my ASCII "art") 20 feet or more and block the top end of the trapezoid as well. Beavers are drawn to the sound of running water, and by making them dam up a larger and larger area that gets further and further away from the sound of the water, they will often give up, or at least be unable to block it up.

TimV · Nov 10, 2015

Sorry the "art" didn't go through--here's a site showing the same basic idea
Beaver fence

glennster · Nov 10, 2015

we have em bad by us, i have damson the creeks at both farms. i have a guy trapping this year, i was doing it before. he just got a 65 lb er yesterday. biggest that came out was a 90 lb beaver about 4 years ago. dang critter was near 5 ft long with the tail. constant trapping is the only way to keep them in check. they build bank dens by me, then the creek bank collapses when we get high water, muskrats do that too. murrays lures dot com has nice trapping supplies. i use the 330 body grip traps and also snares.

JRSutton · Nov 10, 2015

Consider yourself lucky that you can trap them! Around here, they're "protected".

If they flood a road the state can move in and do something about it - but if they flood your property, you've got to get used to owning a pond.

My wife's aunt bought her 20 acre dream horse property to retire to. Moved in, bought her horses. A few years later the beavers moved in.

She now has an 18 acre mosquito pond, and 2 acres of pasture. She made the mistake of asking if she could do anything about them - so now they check on the beavers to make sure she's not disturbing them in any way.

Russ from MN · Nov 10, 2015

S, S, S,! We have them pretty bad up by some of our property, the county hires a trapper and then replaced the culvert. I bet it costs a $1000 to dig one culvert out and replace it with a new one! Destructive rodents! The hides aren't worth much now so very few will trap unless they get a bounty too.

Greg1959 · Nov 10, 2015

Russ from MN- We charge $50 for each trap we set and $65 for each beaver we catch. Plus, you can keep the beaver if you want to skin it.

coshoo · Nov 10, 2015

Lay 4" or 6" black plastic pipe in the bottom of the culvert- put enough pieces together to go 10 feet or so beyond the culvert on each end. They can dam it up as much as they want, but the water will still escape through the plastic pipe. Am told that they will give up eventually, if they can't impound the water like they want to.

Bob Harvey · Nov 10, 2015

" Hard working and great engineers" - That's why they are a Canadian symbol !

Mark - IN. · Nov 10, 2015

Don't try and pet one.

Mark
Theyre not cuddly

w1ebb · Nov 10, 2015

Just curious, what state is the aunt in and who are "they?" The beavers altered the landscape. I could understand if it were wetland, but it sounds like the aunt's land has been pasture for a good while.

rusty6 · Nov 10, 2015

They are a huge pest here and the municipality pays $30 bounty per tail although I have heard higher in other areas. I got two this year but I spent a lot of hours on stake out and there are just not enough hours in the day. With the excess water we have here we sure don't need those pests slowing down the drainage.

JD Farmer · Nov 10, 2015

I have them bad all around me. I keep my creek bottom cleaned up so they have no habitat to live in. Take away there food supply and clean up your waterways, no beavers!

Bkpigs · Nov 10, 2015

Watched a video on Netflix about a Canadian guy studying them on the government lands and figured out that putting fence posts about 20 or 30 feet from the culvert kept them from plugging the culvert. They are attracted to the sound of moving water. They then build their dam by the posts instead of building it in the culvert.

Janicholson · Nov 10, 2015

One idea is to put a plastic tube On the bottom of the area being dammed. the tube flows water from the high side to the low side with no sound of running water. Cheap at any rate. Jim

casenut1 · Nov 10, 2015

They also make good eating when processed right. Slow cooked and barbecued. Kind of like a good roast beef.

Greg1959 · Nov 10, 2015

Dang things!!!

GordoSD · Nov 10, 2015

The tote on my 1/2 mile long creek, 80 acres this year so far. 6 raccoons. three feral cats, two possums, two skunks,one mink, 2 yotes, 0ne badger. 17 critters that are not hunting here now. My English setter can pretty much cover all of it in and hour. But he is an amateur hunter. Only hunts 25 days a year as the critters are out there 24/7/365.

GVSII · Nov 11, 2015

Love those english setters!

used red MN · Nov 11, 2015

He just wants to borrow your log splitter! Lol!

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