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Old 07/21/07, 12:11 AM
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well a pressure cooker and a few onions and potatoes would make feeding the groundhogs more like....

livestock...

lol

I hear they are pretty tasty.

seems a waste to just shoot them or gass then in the boro.

if you have to shoot em, at least eat them.
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Old 07/21/07, 05:35 AM
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EGG YOLK SPRAY-
Mix 1 egg yolk with 1 gallon of water strain into sprayer. Spray all the plants you wish the ground hog to leave alone. Respray every few days or after rain. They will enter the gareden but not eat the plants. Easy enough to try, it really works.
It will also stop deer and rabbits.
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Old 07/21/07, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by steff bugielski
EGG YOLK SPRAY-
Mix 1 egg yolk with 1 gallon of water strain into sprayer. Spray all the plants you wish the ground hog to leave alone. Respray every few days or after rain. They will enter the gareden but not eat the plants. Easy enough to try, it really works.
It will also stop deer and rabbits.
Never heard that one. I'll have to give it a try.

Rabbits R us around here......
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Old 07/21/07, 11:11 PM
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We trapped 12 so far this year and used the gas sticks in one burrow. They kept leveling my sweet potato vines, beans, beets, plus more. I used woodchuck bait smeared on broccoli. Found all the burrows and placed the trap right at the entrance. The burrows are usually close to where they are feeding. Just scare one off and see where it goes, then set your trap. How you dispose of them is your business, but I don't hate anyone enough around here to infest them with those devil rats.
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Old 07/22/07, 01:02 AM
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my dog chased one up a tree, I dint know they could climb that good.
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Old 07/22/07, 01:10 AM
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6 and counting for this year. i feed the foxes, lol. i dump them on an old stone row and they magically disappear. in my best year (or worst i guess), i killed 15. they were all within one acre.
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