stomach contents
#7077214
12/06/20 10:13 PM
12/06/20 10:13 PM
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Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 1,870 Pennsylvania
patrapperbuster
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Pennsylvania
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Has anyone looked at stomach contents of any trapped animals? Would be interesting to hear. I know fisher are supposed to be big porcupine eaters but in PA seem to like squirrels. What can ya tell us?
Till that day.....
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Re: stomach contents
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#7077539
12/07/20 01:25 AM
12/07/20 01:25 AM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960 Northern Nevada
Bob
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Never have. Generally can tell what my targets are eating before I’ve even caught them by the contents of their scat
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: stomach contents
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#7077540
12/07/20 01:27 AM
12/07/20 01:27 AM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960 Northern Nevada
Bob
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Northern Nevada
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Mostly only mink. A very high % of them have frog parts in there. Never hear of using frogs for bait but I don't know why not. Interesting. Maybe it’s just difficult to catch enough frogs to make any amount of bait?
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: stomach contents
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#7077665
12/07/20 07:49 AM
12/07/20 07:49 AM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,357 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Bobcat...was mostly rabbit even ears still intact must have ate the ears whole. Mink...I found frogs parts too. Some fish scales. Haven't tried anything else though. Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: stomach contents
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#7077690
12/07/20 08:23 AM
12/07/20 08:23 AM
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Posts: 6,224 Kansas
Pawnee
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I always look and see what the birds I’m hunting are eating. Especially if I’m in new territory. I haven’t done it with any trapped animal, and probably won’t. Not sure why but it doesn’t sound real appealing! I have done hundreds and hundreds of necropsy on cattle. I always look at all 4 stomachs and spot check intestines when doing one. Just don’t see myself digging around in possum! lol
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: stomach contents
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#7077745
12/07/20 09:10 AM
12/07/20 09:10 AM
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Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 992 Ohio, USA
Ave
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In red fox, I usually find lots of rabbit hair and mice, once I found a fox squirrel in one. In coyotes I usually find rabbit and deer hair.
Ave don't go where the beaver don't flow
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Re: stomach contents
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#7077852
12/07/20 10:37 AM
12/07/20 10:37 AM
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patrapperbuster
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Yes. Mink diet here in PA during trapping season is mainly frogs, fish, & mice
Till that day.....
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Re: stomach contents
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#7078239
12/07/20 04:49 PM
12/07/20 04:49 PM
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Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 2,536 NW Illinois
Kevin Stake
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My son watched a mink yesterday with a frog in its mouth while deer hunting. I thought frogs would be hibernating by now?
It is more blessed to give than to receive
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Re: stomach contents
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#7078442
12/07/20 07:17 PM
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Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 1,018 MI
Co�s
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MI
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My son watched a mink yesterday with a frog in its mouth while deer hunting. I thought frogs would be hibernating by now? I’ve seen quite a few times where mink will dig into swamp seeps in the dead of winter. I’ve always assumed they were hunting for hibernating frogs.
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