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Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
#7031370
10/29/20 10:38 AM
10/29/20 10:38 AM
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Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 112 Republic of CO
Cootswatter
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OP
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Posts: 112
Republic of CO
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I hate em, I hate em, I hate em!
Nothing like getting to a great looking location on the edge of some ag, laying out your equipment and then kneeling right in a patch of Goat Heads. It can flat out ruin your day.
My question is do Coyotes shy away from them. I see tracks and scat near them, but they must hate them also. They are everywhere in this country.
"I've come to chew bubble gum and to kick ars, and I'm all out of bubble gum." - Rowdy Roddy Piper - They Live
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7031376
10/29/20 10:50 AM
10/29/20 10:50 AM
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Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 481 Nebraska
BraskaYoter
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Nebraska
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I actually just tested this same idea!! I set a DH in our farm ground I used a patch of goatheads as the backing on the DH, raked the front clean of burs. Had zero action at that set and caught yotes in both sets on either side of it ( 100 yds away ). Is it just that set???? Is it the goatheads????? But its not productive. If I can help it I do not make sets in a patch of sandburs mostly because I dont want a coyote full of them, goat heads dont stick in fur as bad as regular sandburs though, they just suck to step on or kneel on.
Failure leads to learning, learning leads to improvement.
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7031402
10/29/20 11:18 AM
10/29/20 11:18 AM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960 Northern Nevada
Bob
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Northern Nevada
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Goat heads are the work of Satan himself. I’ve never paid much attention to how coyotes react to them though, interesting topic. I can certainly see why they would avoid them
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7032049
10/29/20 10:44 PM
10/29/20 10:44 PM
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Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 112 Republic of CO
Cootswatter
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OP
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Posts: 112
Republic of CO
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Here in Colorado my High School job was at a lumber yard. We also stocked schedule 40 and 80 pvc for plumbing. If we got a bunk from out in eastern Colorado. OUCH!!! They embed in the pipe and as you are stocking the pipe up in the appropriate rack you would slide the pipe very quickly through your hand.
I trap a ton of pivot roads and corners, and I'm going to do a comparison on sand burrs vs no and see if it means a bit of difference. I got a nice farm because the Guinea Fowl that farmer bought to eat the burrs started getting eaten by a bobcat.
"I've come to chew bubble gum and to kick ars, and I'm all out of bubble gum." - Rowdy Roddy Piper - They Live
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7033383
10/31/20 08:50 AM
10/31/20 08:50 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,371 sw Kansas
Creek
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sw Kansas
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Whats really bad is when a couple unknown sandd burrs fall off of you onto the carpet at home any your wife finds them with her foot.
Jack Heinson
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7036846
11/03/20 02:38 PM
11/03/20 02:38 PM
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Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 1,063 N E Nebraska
sotired
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We called them sandburs and Texas sandburs for the goatheads. If you figure how to avoid them let me know. With the drought they are everywhere here.
"Education, transportation, and communication, that's what ruined the world."
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7036881
11/03/20 03:09 PM
11/03/20 03:09 PM
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Joined: Jan 2020
Posts: 719 Oklahoma
We-Sa
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We’ve got those stinkin’ things here too but mostly the central and western 2/3rds of the state. It wasn’t worth having a bicycle when I was a kid if you didn’t have a paved driveway and road.
“I don't know, Chief, if he's very smart or very dumb.” Capt. Quint
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7039415
11/05/20 06:31 PM
11/05/20 06:31 PM
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Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 214 Idaho
Salthunter
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Too funny Out scouting for geese today, following two coyote tracks in the dust,.. Then some funky track in the dust, a coyote must have stepped on one and they circled away.
My vet removes lots of them from dogs
Work hard play hard
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Re: Western NE and Western KS Sand Burrs Goat Heads
[Re: Cootswatter]
#7058606
11/22/20 08:30 AM
11/22/20 08:30 AM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,346 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Not fun to kneel on when making sets either. The things after they poke in tend to cause infection too. Like locust tree thorns do same thing here. Any kid with bicycle growing up leaned to hate them early on in life for sure. Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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