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How many skunks? #7460643
01/14/22 12:48 PM
01/14/22 12:48 PM
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Midlands South Carolina
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SGT. C Offline OP
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Have you removed from one spot. Just hung up with customer telling me i have caught 2 more for total of 8 from under his workshop. Beat my old record of 7. This time of year they have been all adults. The 7 were mom and 6 babies.
I guess got to them in time just before they disperse for mating season. Just odd for my area so many would hole up together.
Has anyone ran into a scenario likes this before? Sarge


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Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460671
01/14/22 01:35 PM
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Albany, NY
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16 from under 1 house.

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460675
01/14/22 01:40 PM
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Kansas
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42 last November and December out a spot that was just over a acre sick


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Re: How many skunks? [Re: Pawnee] #7460691
01/14/22 02:05 PM
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Fingerlakes New York
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Originally Posted by Pawnee
42 last November and December out a spot that was just over a acre sick

shocked


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Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460700
01/14/22 02:14 PM
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Davenport, Iowa
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I trapped a neighbors feed shed one year. 20 skunks, 19 coons, and 1 woodchuck with 2 box traps in one month. That ADC job was a moneymaker.

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460713
01/14/22 02:31 PM
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central arkansas
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20 skunks from under one farmhouse and 19 from another house.


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Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460793
01/14/22 04:16 PM
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New York border
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I did a condo complex where there was a cat feeder with about 20lbs of cat food dumped on an area of the parking lot. Cleaned up all the food , set 6 cage traps at twilight using the cat food as bait. Caught 6 skunks just after dark. Removed them and set 6 more caught them by morning. Caught 18 more over the next 3 nights.
Got paid per skunk. Had free bait ( cat food)

Cat feeders make ya some money.... grin


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Re: How many skunks? [Re: bobsheedy] #7460797
01/14/22 04:20 PM
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Winona MN
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How do you put them to sleep?

Re: How many skunks? [Re: Birdman382] #7460839
01/14/22 05:19 PM
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West Central MN
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Originally Posted by Birdman382
How do you put them to sleep?

Discussions on dispatch are by PM's only.


Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460847
01/14/22 05:38 PM
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Albany, NY
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I better up my game.

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460858
01/14/22 05:53 PM
01/14/22 05:53 PM
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Central, SD
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12 was not uncommon some years out of the same cage trap a few places produce up to 30 skunks the first time you work it. I get calls from one guy that gets 15-18 a summer at his place next to a GFP plot of land. Up to 13 at one place now had another one today so there might be more there.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

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Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460876
01/14/22 06:26 PM
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Midlands South Carolina
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Looks like 8 is low. The owner is happy. He will be happy once he can use his shop. He may not be happy with the bill. Sarge


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Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460903
01/14/22 07:12 PM
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NWWA/AZ
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16 from a city house, but it was breeding season


Slightly used Shoes 4 sale……………
Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460941
01/14/22 07:51 PM
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Killingly, CT
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17 from a city house. 16 males, one hot female.

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460955
01/14/22 08:06 PM
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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Back about 16 years ago, I caught 8 skunks 1 year and 14 the next out of my mom's less than 3 acre yard. During the same 2 years, I caught 27 and 32 opossums, 42 and 58 coons out of the yard. I caught 1 red fox and 1 nearly albino groundhog too. I had 7 box traps set much of both seasons.

My mom and at least 3 of her neighbors fed a huge amount of feral cats and the wildlife was happy to join in. I caught the largest and best furred critters I ever caught trapping there.

Keith

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7460976
01/14/22 08:32 PM
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Warmed up this week for a few days the skunks were moving some. They have better stripes on them this year some beige tint to many but not the yellow or orange tints we get in the wet years.

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Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7461119
01/14/22 10:56 PM
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SO. central Kansas
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Late season last year i caught 14 in one spot. What I found interesting was only 1 of them was a female.

We'll see what that den hole produces this year.

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7461167
01/14/22 11:31 PM
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Last summer I removed 19 from a farm. 6 of those were youngins. I caught and skinned another 21 from that same farm throughout trapping season. I’ve only caught one so far this season.

Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7461178
01/14/22 11:45 PM
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A year ago I did a skunk job, 12 skunk's later I was done.


Let me sugar coat this
Re: How many skunks? [Re: SGT. C] #7461311
01/15/22 06:30 AM
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Got 22 from one place.

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