Here is a video that I found think some might like to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhDwZCWxdE

Interesting. Still doesn't change the way I handle them in a trap.

Very interesting. Based on the ticks I've been picking off - they need to step it up a little.

Danny- how much did that guy weigh? Great Photo!

Nasty things

eagle eye I don't know. been dead a long while. biggest one I ever saw though. base of its tail was as big around as the big end of a mag light. my wife would hold it on her lap of an evening and feed it grapes. really liked those hairless baby mice pet shops sell to feed snakes also.

Same for me, I still trap them and sell there pelts. Just found it interesting and think some on here would like to see also.

my skid steer identifies as a possum right now,ran a stick through the door in the back and into the radiator causing green stuff to ooze out the back end.

What brand of skid loader do you have, PCR2?

new holland ls 190

Nice, I wish our family had one that big. I run a L170. New Holland.

i have to have one big enough to load pallets of lanscaping stone on semi's.my record is 5150 pounds and bein a little crazy that number is hard to forget.

This one was packing meals for a week it looked like it had over 200 ticks on it. What they often leave out is the fact that they carry a virus that can kill a horse.



They flat out stink they can clear a room even when tiny I raised 4 out of 8 a few years ago and they stink.

The video said they were here at the same time as dinosaurs, I bet they ate them all just like they do ticks!

I love it when some animal rights wacko wildlife expert tells me all the ticks they eat.
I simply tell them they are scavengers that eat vulcanized rubber and asphalt cause they would weigh 500 pounds if they ate all the ticks around here.

They got to think about that one for a minute or two!

wife would bathe hers. I don't think they all carry epm law dog. not good when a horse gets it. grandson lost a horse to it a few years ago. not pretty. chickens are a lot better at cleaning up ticks. never ate a possum they might be good too but really like eating chicken. think if tick control was a goal I would just have chickens in the yard.

Here you go, Finster. There is nothing new on opossums on trapper man.

The whole “they eat up to 5000 ticks a year based on studies” is false, here’s the lowdown on the “several studies”

One study where 100 tick were artificially planted on a SINGLE opossum
The opossum ate or GROOMED off 96 of the ticks

THE END

So from this information we get the myth that
Opossums eat up to 5000 ticks per year
Every artIcle I’ve read leads back to this SINGLE STUDY OF A SINGLE OPOSSUM

Not even the buzzards will eat them.. . ONLY the bugs