Re: ND Beaver house
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I once trapped a R.O.W ditch. Not a single tree in sight. One corn/weed dam. I could only set the agriculture side of the ditch. I figured the beaver were long gone.....I was wrong and they were in good shape! Another time I trapped 5 beaver out a section of creek in the spring that, if you walked 30 yards upstream or downstream, was dry as a bone. These beaver I caught were the most well-furred ones I had caught all year
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Re: ND Beaver house
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Another three today. Big one is a male From the house looking north From the house looking south Bank run just south of the house with H stand and trap Dam One of todays small beaver. What their teeth look like. This is the male I caught today.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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Lee, The caster was shells and in 100% flat. What color were those Wy beaver? What color are KS beaver. It seems like I saw some beaver from WY that were pale too. But I don't remember for sure. It was over 40 years ago.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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We get a real wide range of colors here. But most are not a good color. We do have some very dark beaver in some areas. Even blacks. But what I saw of that I caught dark browns, black and reds out of the same house. These all had silver bellies and light brown backs. I like the silver bellies as much as any color. I remember when they paid extra for pales. Mine seemed to always be what they don't want.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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For me it's mostly reds and I've caught a few darks but I wouldn't call them blacks, these are Red river beaver.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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The blacks I caught, came out of the Turtle Mountains on the Reservation. There were not a lot of them but some 95+ % black. grumley701 do you get any red rims. That was the first ND beaver I caught, and I was in shock.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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I haven't Mark but that isn't saying much, my beaver killing is adc work only so limited..
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Re: ND Beaver house
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I haven't Mark but that isn't saying much, my beaver killing is adc work only so limited.. That is what this is too, sort of. The neighbor ask I would go catch them, while he was buy ammo from me at a gun show. I was weak and said yes. I always got along good with him, he has always let me fur trap and hunt. So I would just as soon get along with him. If I get into some red rims I will post a picture.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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good neighbors are priceless..
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Re: ND Beaver house
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Lee, I wonder if it was the water. I never saw it in MT or AK. Beaver in AK were under ice a lot longer than they are here. North50 I would not think the blacks were 10% on the US side in the Turtle Mountains. I would guess under 5%. Turtle Mountain beaver.
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Re: ND Beaver house
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Northof50 There is more bulrush than cattail and that is about all there is. So would you still call this a bachelor beaver? That is number seven and I figure one male left. I always called a single old male a bachelor.
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