OT Gophers

gitrib · Jan 15, 2010

Got a lot of gopher mound showing in the field. We have a little hand unit for applying pellet. Have a Grand son who has a collage degree in Range and Land Management who says "do not use them". They will kill the gophers but if a dog digs them up and eats them it will kill the dog.

What do you think?

Maybe we should keep the dogs in the kennel and let the cayotes dig them up. Two kills for one.
gitrib

IaGary · Jan 15, 2010

Will a dog eat a gopher?

Not mine.

My wife put some pellets out for gophers and I told her she is wasting her time.

Don't tell her I said this but she did a lot of good.

Gary

JMOR · Jan 15, 2010

I have used strichnine treated maze into their holes/underground trails for 15 years & often see dogs digging, but never seen one sick or dead from the stuff. I only put a tablespoon or less in each mound & used a nail bar to punch into the trails.

keh · Jan 15, 2010

You guys need some fire ants to go with those gophers. In fact, I bet the ants would drive the gophers away.

The fire ants have been keeping their heads down during this recent cold weather. Got up to 60 today though. Sure felt good.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2010

No lose no gain. If u loose a dog and the gopher
so what.

Ultradog MN · Jan 15, 2010

You need the Rodenator.
I'm sure I first saw this from a link on Tractor Talk. But it's worth another glimpse.
Video

Anonymous-0 · Jan 15, 2010

My dad and uncle would set 1/4 stick of dynomite by the hole . Wait till gopher stuck out ,then set it off with shot from .22 . Crud but effective . lol

GordoSD · Jan 15, 2010

Don't think you have gophers. They don't leave mounds. In fact it's sometimes hard to find their hole when they run across the yard and dive in it.

Gordo

nhboyd · Jan 15, 2010

Haven't tried it ,but heard 3 parts dry plaster of paris 1 part oat meal. Will plug them up. Won't kill dogs.

Case e · Jan 15, 2010

I always had the best luck with setting traps for pocket gophers. get yourself some "0" victor traps, dig down and find the "fork" in the tunnel, recess the trap and stake down GOOD cover hole with small piece of board so there is no daylight in the hole and make sure to check early in the morning. pull out trap and be ready for one pi$$ed animal.

BCnT · Jan 15, 2010

i got both...gophers still here but cats are whittlin em down....boiling hot water works on fire ants for rite now mound treatment and i use Amdro for cleanup.

JMOR · Jan 15, 2010

(quoted from post at 20:39:11 01/15/10) Don't think you have gophers. They don't leave mounds. In fact it's sometimes hard to find their hole when they run across the yard and dive in it.

Gordo

AYBE they don't in SD or just as you said, 'you don't have gophers!"
They do leave mounds in Texas sandy loam.....thousands of dollars in cab windows attest to the mounds loaded with stones hit with a Khun mower.
Traps are not the answer when dealing with hundreds of acres, either.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...amp;resnum=7&ct=image&ved=0CBUQ9QEwBg

GeneMO · Jan 15, 2010

.22 magnum or zinc phosphide treated cracked corn.

Gene

KIP in MX · Jan 15, 2010

You"re thinking of ground squirrels. Gophers have mounds and never venture far from the hole. At least in New Mexico.

MirageFlatter · Jan 16, 2010

Well what we call pocket gophers in Nebraska sure leave mounds, big ones. Will bounce you right out of a tractor seat if you don't do anything to keep them knocked down, and are hell on haying machinery. We use a machine called the Elston Gopher Getter, goes in the ground and builds an artificial burrow, and has a box like a planter box for poison bait, oats or milo, drops a tablespoon full of bait every couple of feet in the burrow. Works pretty well, but like anything else, you just gotta keep after em. When we flood irrigate hay fields, water runs into the gopher holes, and will bring the soaking wet boogers up out of the ground, they don't like running water. We have a Chocolate Lab that loves to go along irrigating hay fields so he can catch gophers and kill them, but he walks right away from them once they're dead. I've never seen him eat one, and they can be tuff for him to kill. Little boogers are blind as a bat, but have long, sharp teeth in front, right below their nose. It can be pretty comical to watch when one latches onto the dogs lip. :shock: The only vermin in our country that leave bigger mounds in the fields are badgers, and their's are a lot fewer, and farther between.

DJM75 · Jan 16, 2010

I have a german shepard that digs gophers and moles out he gets quite a few but then there is those larger holes when he gets done.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 16, 2010

set fire to your house to kill the white ants,no lose no gain.

Billy Shafer · Jan 16, 2010

Well between the Gophers and the wild pigs in Leon county. I think about the only chance we have is to bring back Napalm. If yo don't trip over a Gopher mound. You fall into a ditch dug by the pigs.

JMOR · Jan 16, 2010

(quoted from post at 11:51:57 01/16/10) Well between the Gophers and the wild pigs in Leon county. I think about the only chance we have is to bring back Napalm. If yo don't trip over a Gopher mound. You fall into a ditch dug by the pigs.

ight up close to hay rings where cows hang out, Thursday, 12 sows & 40 piglets! In the hay fields, they ruin them! They are coming up closer all the time, soon I'll have to watch the porch!

colekicker · Jan 16, 2010

Where are you located? I know that there are folks with the Jack Russell Terrier Club of America that would jump on the chance to go clean some settes out and hunt their dogs.

scot in pa · Jan 17, 2010

I'd like to go hog hunting someday.

My friend and I are going to put a 2 or 3 inch valve on a water tank, put it on a trailer, so we can flood them out to shoot them.

We have some spare time to kill.

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