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Armadillo irradication advice

Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
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  • boogerbooger Member Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If that guy ain't gonna shoot, he's wasting time. Nothing else works. I've shot armadillos that already had .22 scars healed up, (not CB .22 scars either), gotta "upsize" the caliber. .410 buckshot is an urban option.

    Them ducks is wary.
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  • TexasVetTexasVet Member Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why would anybody want to hurt an innocent Armadillo?

    I've got one in the yard, call it my "Armadiller Rototiller" !
    It tears hell out of my flower beds sometimes, but never the yard.


    Seriously, they are beneficial, eat grubworms, etc. All that guy has to do is spray diazanon under his workshed which will kill the grubs before they turn into Junebugs, and the "diller" will leave.

    I did hear once that they carried Bubonic Plague, but that could just be a rumor.
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  • tccoxtccox Member Posts: 7,379 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Texvet. they carry leprosy, not the plague. Not a rumor. Tom

    Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who dont.
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  • boogerbooger Member Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    TexasVet, welcome to the boards my friend but I think you're off base on this one. He lives under this guys shed, it's home not a food source. That's how they are. If you have an armadillo he is certainly eating in the rest of your yard too, although you may not have noticed? How much diazanon per acre, per application do you think would be required for an acre? How often applied? The figure would be astronomical with no result.

    Expensive flower bulbs, expensive mainly in time invested landscaping, aren't worth a damn if flung six feet out in the yard.

    It's not Bubonic Plague, it's Leprosy that occasionally (o.k. rarely) can be found on their belly.

    Now we have our own sillines brewing here Wild Turkey, hehehe.

    Them ducks is wary.

    Edited by - booger on 07/11/2002 01:19:43
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I had an old collie dog once that thought one of his main missions in life was to rid the world of armadillos. My dad loved him, because the armadillos rooted up the garden. Poor old dog wore his teeth down to the gum chewing on the pesky critters.

    Sometimes he would get one down a hole late at night. He never could get one out of a hole, but he would not leave it either. Nothing to do but get a light and a gun and go find Nick and his quarry. Drag dog out of hole. Look in hole with light. Big armadillo, minus tail, is digging for all he is worth. One .357 magnum round stops the digging. Drag the now thrashing, blood-spraying varmint out of hole for dog to play with. Dog is pleased.

    He was a heck of a dog, and just as keen to kill Cottonmouths.

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  • TexasVetTexasVet Member Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well,

    I thought someone told me the plauge --- oh, well.

    My diller doesn't rip up plant bulbs, seems to contain itself to an area of my flower bed that could use tilling anyway. (I have sprayed the rest of the bed and my yard with diazanon, did it myself and cost me about $10.00 for 1/2 acre coverage).

    Neighbor keeps dry catfood on his patio, and said there were 3 baby amardillos eating cat chow right beside his cat yesterday morning.

    We try to be animal friendly here, (except for snakes) have 2 purple martin houses which are full. I built a grid out of chicken wire, suspended it on short fiberglas poles, and wired it to a fence charger that's on a timer. Have fried 8 rat snakes so far that have tried to get in the bird houses.

    The armadillo probably doesn't cross the grid!
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Stick him to the ground with a compound bow...

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,693 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
    A: To prove to the armadillo it could be done.

    Sorry about that, but I had been in Arkansas three years before I finally saw a live one. I thought maybe they came that way--dead, belly up, with feet sticking out at funny angles.

    ***There's a difference between living and living well!***
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Best way to get rid of dillers is build a road...

    Have Gun, will travel
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Armadillo, Hmmmmmmm opossum on the half shell, yum yum

    "A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
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