That’s exactly the truck I was thinking about last week. Be a good replacement for my Sierra for trapping. I can’t put a newer truck through the stuff that I do. Was thinking 80s-90s Toyota. Good clearance, light, good fuel mileage, run forever, can work on it myself………just hard to find one that’s not rusted out……lol. The US is the best chance to find one 1/2 decent for cheap. Getting them across the line nowadays isn’t so cheap & easy as it used to be.
Some kind of metacestodes (tapeworm larvae), of the kind that infect the intermediate host and then multiply by budding. I gave it to a parasitologist and he said such disco millet stuff in rodents is generally a southerly thing, but it has been spreading northwards probably because climate has been becoming warmer in the past few decades. Similar to how dermacentor ticks are advancing north and killing moose in your state.
I haven't seen such muskrats before. Muskrats usually spread Echinococcosis which is an even worse disease and more dangerous to humans. Up to 15% of all muskrats have Echinococcus cysts in their lungs and livers. This is why you should never feed muskrat meat to dogs, dogs that ingest the larvae become dangerous spreaders and their poop becomes bioweapon against humans and livestock. It's a very nasty infection that can develop quietly for a long time and decimate your quality of life, and not always treatable.
I agree with those saying it was a fox. I’ve lost lots of chickens to foxes. They grab them and run off. There might be a few feathers where they grab them and maybe a few more to point you in the general direction that he ran off with it, but that’s about it.
With a raptor kill, there is generally a large amount of feathers at the kill site.
You’re welcome isnarewolves. AV-we love the boat. Was exactly what we wanted. All of my research and previous experiences kept telling me Hewescraft. Will get it out and fishing in the next couple of days. Can’t wait. Thanks for your input on this thread.
I keep oil from males and females separately, this way the female oil doesn't separate much and male oil is liquid to begin with.
Interesting.
I've never noticed this, but I'm gonna check this out.
maybe it's different with your species but in European beaver, females produce paste-like gray oil and males produce yellowish liquid oil. Even the sac wall structure is different. It's an easy way to define the sex of the beaver in the field, by how wobbly the area below the pelvic ring is. Castors are the same in both sexes.
Yes Lenons Weasel Lure will work. Lenon's Bobcat Super All Call would be much better for Grey Fox. Once went to visit Asa and he caught a grey fox and bobcat right next to each other behind the old lure shed in Gulliver.
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