Wire Nut
Senior Member
Found this yesterday duck hunting. Never seen a beaver make a ball
Hey, at least they came back and cleaned up the stumps!I had beavers eat my okra patch one year.It was near my pond,and I tossed the overgrown pods in the pond.They liked it so much they ate every single plant and then came back and dug up the stumps and ate them,too.The electric fence didn't faze them.
My late father-in-law had a big huge patch of collard greens beside a little creek. A beaver came up the creek and completely wiped him out in about a week.I had beavers eat my okra patch one year.It was near my pond,and I tossed the overgrown pods in the pond.They liked it so much they ate every single plant and then came back and dug up the stumps and ate them,too.The electric fence didn't faze them.
A guy I know shot a big one with a bowfishing arrow on a string once. He said he soon learned that it wasn't a good idea at all.Was stomping along in waders early Spring working a beaver job. Took a long cut through some planted pines hoping to find an antler shed. Walked right up on a beaver curled up asleep. Almost stepped on him! Thought about reaching down and touching him but didn't want to risk him getting away. Just pulled out me pistol and sent him to the happy hunting ground.
Trapped 'em eating out of corn patches, soybean fields, turnip patches, peanut fields, and cutting cotton stalks for their dam. Beaver and otter my two favorite fur bearers!
If wolverines lived in the south and were as common as coyotes are now,we'd be in a heap of trouble.I remember reading one time that a beaver is one of the few animals in the world to have killed a wolverine. When the wolverine tackled it, they rolled off into the water and the beaver beaver bit it, held on, and went to the bottom of the pond till the wolverine drowned.