Not all phones, my cheap Trac phone won't post photos on this site. Had quite a few people try but no go

Posting pics for Providence Farm




PF - I was only able to post 2 out of the 3 pics you sent me. 3rd pic it says the file is too big and I cannot resize it.

Well I'm tec challenged. I will try again later. Heading in for a meeting with the pastor. But I should have some time to try to figure it out when deer hunting with my 12 year old this evening.

Cool. I was able to resize and crop the 3rd photo for Providence Farm

Definitely a neat looking squirrel. Maybe a color phase gray?

I finally got the pics, btw, now that they're not needed LOL

Very odd for sure

I'd have it mounted

Think I'd keep that one too

Another vote for a mount. Congratulations to the boy!

Even with the bald spot on the tail? I had my daughter's first squirrel mounted. I cut burrow with a hole in it off an oak to have it mounted on. The guy mounted it so the hole was facing down but trees grow up not down.
I put it on the wall. It's still there at my other house my inlaws live in now. It's got large parched of fur that fell out. I guess the guy did a poor job on some part of mounting it. She was 7 and is 30 now so it's been a while but my deer mounts that are older don't have nay problems but they were done by a different guy.

What's the consensus? Color faze or hybrid? I was thinking hybrid due to the slightly larger size and more chocolate color belly and the 100% gray back part tail. But it a complete guess and in no squirrel or genetic expert.

I would think a taxidermist could just cut out that bad spot of tail and shorten it a bit?

Congrats to the boy.

Once-in-a-lifetime thing , I'd mount it.

pictures man we need pic.

fox squirrel for my vote ( with the red belly)
the different tail colours come in when there has been a bruise or mite infection and the hair roots are effected. /new hair grows back but usually white

It's neat but for the cost of mounting it you could take a day off work and take the kids hunting again. I'm to cheap for taxidermy.

That squirrel come from Dr Merows grafting lab.

They crossbreed here regularly.

I'm sure what you're describing is a crossbreed. It sounds like what we get here when they cross.

I agree with having it mounted. That has the right size to be a fox squirrel, but the color is wrong. The tail is the color of a grey squirrel. Bizarre, that's for sure.

Dont hold your breathe for any wildlife department to agree with you. Even in fox squirrel nation, there is a refusal to accept that a fox squirrel and a gray squirrel will mate. Very cool to sew though, we have them here and are nice to see. To me they are the best of both worlds, gray squirrel can defend itself more, while the bigger size and color of the fox squirrel lends itself to better eating. Anybody a big time squirrel hunter here?

Its one of my true loves, but man it sure is hard sometimes!

I can tell you with certainty there is no “crossbreeding” here with our greys and fox squirrels. They act like mortal enemies here. And if that’s a fox squirrel, he’s tiny. I don’t see much of a difference in body size with the pics. Our fox squirrels here are quite large. They’ll keep deer and greys off a feeder in a heartbeat. I’ve watched three greys go after a fox squirrel and the fox squirrel whooped two and the third wanted nothing to do with it. We may have different names for squirrels than y’all do. I know I’ve seen some crazy looking squirrels in Washington and Idaho.