Re: trapping armidillos
[Re: coontrapper98]
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07/29/13 02:24 PM
07/29/13 02:24 PM
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Gainesville, Alachua, Florida,...
Robb Russell
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trapper
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Gainesville, Alachua, Florida,...
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I find keeping a rag, towel, piece of chamois or a thin piece of plywood (luan) either directly on the floor of a cage or under the cage will give you all the attraction you will ever need. Just keep re-using the same scented materials over and over.I use captured armadillos to treat and retreat "sweeten" my boards and, rags or chamois. Good funneling techniques should get you your first armadillo to get the whole attracting scent thing working for you in the future. Dedicated armadillo cages when you can afford them is my best recommendation. I did several podcast that should shed some light on the trapping of armadillos, and addressing the bait question with many other WCO's. Podcasts with Warrior, Kirk Dekalb, Gene Beck, Jeff Norris and others on trapping armadillos include: http://www.blubrry.com/wildlifecontrol/612923/how-to-trap-armadillos/http://www.blubrry.com/wildlifecontrol/1541686/kirk-dekalb-on-armadillo-trapping/Video using early audio with me and Andy Williams 2008 and info from the Univ of Florida web site. http://www.anytimewildlifecontrol.com/video/robb-russell-s-live-trapping-the-armadillo
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Re: trapping armidillos
[Re: coontrapper98]
#3915573
07/29/13 05:45 PM
07/29/13 05:45 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Georgia
warrior
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trapper
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Georgia
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The podcasts will cover all you need to know on diller trapping. I think I said everything I know on the topic in the ones I have participated in. Over the years I have tried and experimented with most every known and unknown substance or bait purported to work. The list is to long to cover them all but includes the likes of black cherries, bananas from green to rotten, persimmons, fresh to rotten fruit of all kinds, nightcrawlers, red wigglers, meal worms, wax worms all the above in various combinations and stages of taint, anise, cherry oil, black walnut oil and extract, acorn oil, apple oil, sweet corn extract, castor, vanilla extract plus many I can not recall. Drift fencing, walking my yards and reading the sign have been far more educational than wasted efforts on baits this was what allowed me to start catching dillers. But for years I was shooting myself in the foot because when I caught a diller I would remove the diller and the trap it was in and replaced it with a new trap. But when I got so busy that I had to leave the trap on site and just transfer the diller to transport cages that I started seeing an interesting fact, the same trap on a multiple trap set up would do all the catching. It was nothing more or less than the natural funk of the armadillo inside that trap that was acting as the lure. To prove this I even moved the funked up trap to a different area in my set and it still out caught my other unfunked traps. Then I started transferring the first diller caught to other unfunked traps and let it stay in them for a day before resetting the traps and my catch went up even more. So I say today the hardest diller to catch is your first one but once that is done get to seasoning your cages and materials (Robb's suggestion is completely valid) and you're in the diller trapping business.
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