jigs said:
I have a beaver damming up the county ditch, and forcing water out into my alfalfa field. county won't clean it because they just build back over night...waste of tax payers money. Landlord WANTS the beaver on his property. I wouldn't care as long as they move 200 yards up stream into the pasture, but not where they are now..
if I had 50 gallon of liquid furidant that would "fall off" someones truck, that would solve everything, except for the EPA trouble it woulfd start.
one guy said 50 gallons of diesle fuel....
any other ideas??
The advice on controlling beavers is good if they have yet to arrive - but will not work for beaver that are already in situ - unless your neighbour will let you use some heavy equipment - which sounds doubtful.
And, who pays for all of this new equipment and the backhoe or highhoe to install? You, the neighbour or the county? Any suggestion of doing it by hand would indicate that person has never tried to tear apart an object that is holding tons and tons and tons of water.
A beaver dam is incredibly strong and the house is almost impossible to break into without some real hard work.
It all sounds nice on paper and reads nice to those who have never tried to install this equipment in an already "in situ" dam - but it does one thing rather poorly - and that means it does not and can not remove or solve the problem at hand.
I made a few bucks when I was a kid ........ So ......
How many beavers?
New dam?
Two beaver turn into seven or eight real fast.
If it is new it will be a breeding pair -
trouble coming real fast.
If it is an older dam, count on as many as 8- 12 or more in some cases. The most I have ever trapped out of one dam is about 20 - there were three distinct houses.
Every night at about one hour after sundown go and rip out a spot about one foot to 18 inches wide and one foot deep. Different spot on the dam each time.
Drive a T-bar fence post into the dam and attach one conibear (look it up) trap to the post with a light dog chain and a couple of caribiners. Or just tie the trap to a big stick that is well set in the dam. Set the trap and stand it in the channel you ripped out.
It is quiet and effective - instant kill - and if you do it right you will be a great poacher.
Be quiet and tell no one.
You will get one every night until they are all gone.
Pull the trap at midnight and the hole will be fixed by daylight. The water level will come back up and you can start over again the next night.
The drop in the water level brings them on the run. Love them or hate them, the beaver is a first class worker and engineer.
Start the procedure all over - keep going until the rats are all dead.
If you cannot get onto the property find out where their trails are and set the traps there - they are creatures of habit and will return on those trails and water runs.
Never relocate - kill those rats - they will come back - and if they are dead and the dam plus the house stays up, another pair will move in - real fast like.
The dam must come down.
This winter - when the neighbour is not home - cut a hole in the house - hope it is not in the creek bank or this does not work - and it is a surprizingly tough job - pour about 5 gallons of diesel and gas into the hole - the beaver leave the home in about 15 seconds - down their escape hatches of which there are several - the liquid is contained in the house and around the top of the house - it will burn nicely to the water level - stand back a bit and light it up - the house will burn for a couple of days - but they will be forced to move out - they generally move on.
I might add the last solution will not win you friendship with your neighbour - so if there is snow and ice - you figure out where the tracks should come and go - do not lead them to your home.
Finally, shooting will never get them all - so it only makes you feel better. Plus, the empty area just means more beaver will come to live there.
They are far, far from being a rare animal - in fact they are so numerous as to be a true pest.
If no one will solve your troubles - solve them yourself. You will do what you have to do.
Otherwise there will be another dam - up or downstrean within two years from now as the breeders do what they do best - create more beavers.
If I lived close by I could do it for you. Easy as pie.
Walk soft and be quiet - kill them all. Soon.
BC
