Do skunks eat moles?
alvin...@notmail.com
other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do skunks eat moles or was
this just a coincidense? Either way, I dont want any of them.....
What do skunks eat anyhow?
Alv
enigma
news:5fa3h3555eagitoul...@4ax.com:
> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my
> barn. The other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do
> skunks eat moles or was this just a coincidense? Either
> way, I dont want any of them.....
yes you do. moles eat grubs.
> What do skunks eat anyhow?
skunks eat grubs, ground nesting wasps, bugs and if you aren't
talking about spotted or two line skunks, they'll eat eggs,
baby birds (ground nesting obviously).
both skunks & moles have an important ecological niche and
are useful around farms.
you may not want them in/under your barn, but you'd be really
surprised at what would happen if they weren't around at all.
lee
--
Question with boldness even the existence of god; because if
there be
one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of
blindfolded
fear. - Thomas Jefferson
alvin...@notmail.com
wrote:
>alvin...@notmail.com wrote in
>news:5fa3h3555eagitoul...@4ax.com:
>
>> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my
>> barn. The other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do
>> skunks eat moles or was this just a coincidense? Either
>> way, I dont want any of them.....
>
>yes you do. moles eat grubs.
>
>> What do skunks eat anyhow?
>
>skunks eat grubs, ground nesting wasps, bugs and if you aren't
>talking about spotted or two line skunks, they'll eat eggs,
>baby birds (ground nesting obviously).
> both skunks & moles have an important ecological niche and
>are useful around farms.
> you may not want them in/under your barn, but you'd be really
>surprised at what would happen if they weren't around at all.
>lee
Thanks for the info. I have sprained my ankle twice now because of
mole tunnels. Both times they were near my barn and hayshed. I am
carrying bales and trip on the damn holes. I do see your point, and
if they stayed away from my buildings, I'd probably not complain too
much. But I have one or more that tunnels under my barn, across the
barn floor, and has this habit of tunneling around the entire
preimeter of my barn walls on a regular basis. Being in a hilly area,
water comes theu their tunnels and pours into the barn in heavy rains,
because their tunnels drain the water from ditches that I
intentionally built to divert water away from the buildings.
OK, thats just the moles, and if they would just leave the buildings,
I'd not be too upset. As for the skunks. I went away for a few days,
hired a local teenager to feed my animals, and he walks into my feed
room and is sprayed by a skunk that dug under the walls into my feed
room. It used the same tunnel a mole had made. Skunks I dont want
around at all. I plan to spend $350 this week to put concrete in the
feed room because I am so tired of all this digging. I had put down
treated wood laid on the ground, but these critters cover the wood
with dirt because the wood is not cut to fit around the posts and a
small border of dirt exists.
The skunk was a first. Although there are other digging larger
animals such as badgers and groundhogs. The moles are the biggest
problem though. There is like an infestation of them here. Traps are
useless, I wont use poison around my horses. My 22 rifle is about my
only alternative if I want to sit there all day watching for the dirt
to move. I will cement the feed room, but that wont stop those
digging next to me hayshed door or under the cattle mats in the barn.
Alvin
enigma
news:gd04h3hmqu38tn4bc...@4ax.com:
> Thanks for the info. I have sprained my ankle twice now
> because of mole tunnels. Both times they were near my barn
> and hayshed. I am carrying bales and trip on the damn
> holes.
either you have tiny feet or those aren't mole holes. the
tunnels do make soft areas, but only less than 3" wide. the
holes are only 3" too.
> I do see your point, and if they stayed away from
> my buildings, I'd probably not complain too much. But I
> have one or more that tunnels under my barn, across the
> barn floor, and has this habit of tunneling around the
> entire preimeter of my barn walls on a regular basis.
> Being in a hilly area, water comes theu their tunnels and
> pours into the barn in heavy rains, because their tunnels
> drain the water from ditches that I intentionally built to
> divert water away from the buildings.
are you quite sure you don't have rats?
> OK, thats just the moles, and if they would just leave the
> buildings, I'd not be too upset. As for the skunks. I
> went away for a few days, hired a local teenager to feed my
> animals, and he walks into my feed room and is sprayed by a
> skunk that dug under the walls into my feed room. It used
> the same tunnel a mole had made. Skunks I dont want around
> at all.
that's very shortsighted. i've had a skunk living under my
barn for over 5 years now. he comes into the barn through the
cat's hole in the floor. he eats with the cats. *no one* in
almost 6 years of having this skunk in the barn has ever been
sprayed. we make noise when approching the barn, never fling
the door open suddenly &, if he's still in there when we do
open the door, we give him a minute to slip down the cat's
hole. no big deal. last spring he brought his girlfriend over
for dinner. that was funny because she wasn't so used to
humans, but still, no one got sprayed.
> I plan to spend $350 this week to put concrete in
> the feed room because I am so tired of all this digging. I
> had put down treated wood laid on the ground, but these
> critters cover the wood with dirt because the wood is not
> cut to fit around the posts and a small border of dirt
> exists.
sounds like rats. neither skunks nor moles would want anything
in your feed room, unless you had catfood in there.
i think you need to find out what your problem is before you
go off half-cocked.
>
> The skunk was a first. Although there are other digging
> larger animals such as badgers and groundhogs. The moles
> are the biggest problem though. There is like an
> infestation of them here. Traps are useless, I wont use
> poison around my horses. My 22 rifle is about my only
> alternative if I want to sit there all day watching for the
> dirt to move. I will cement the feed room, but that wont
> stop those digging next to me hayshed door or under the
> cattle mats in the barn.
get rid of grubs & you won't have moles (if you have moles).
use milky spore to kill the grubs. it's a bacterium that only
affects grubs, so it won't bother your animals. yes, it's
expensive to apply, but it lasts for 10 or more years in the
soil.
a cat or three will take care of moles, mice, rats,
squirrels, etc. just make sure they're neutered.
do you have chickens? free range chickens will eat some of
the grubs. they'll also eat fly larvae in the cattle/horse
dung.
but seriously, i don't think your big problem is moles.
lee
Jack
To answer your question, yes skunks will eat moles, mice, and rats to
a size, They also eat insects. Now to discourage the animals if you
can tolerate the smell, moth balls scaterd around will cause them to
stay away. Actually the gas from them will deter a lot of insects also
such as wasps, etc.
alvin...@notmail.com
wrote:
>alvin...@notmail.com wrote in
I know they are moles because I have seen some of them. Of course
there is the possibility of rats also, but these seem to be mole
tunnels. Let me ask you this. Do rats make tunnels that go for 50
feet or more both indoors and outdoors? I really do not know.
I found one such tunnel that went under the barn. It began about 30
feet west of the barn near a rock pile, went under a concrete slab
next to my garage, then continued under the lawn toward the barn,
under the barn stalls on the west end of barn, angled under my feed
room, then continued out the rear of the feed room, toward the silo,
and appeared to end under an old fallen shed about 50 feet east of the
barn. I thought I'd drown the thing, stuck the hose in the hole where
it began (on the uphill side by rock pile), and let it run for hours.
The water came out of the end hole under that fallen shed, as if it
was a perfect pipe or hose. Total feet is well over 100 feet.
Eventually the hole began to collapse and water began entering the
barn.
The mole did not drown, and still uses that same tunnel. I have since
removed the rock pile and burned the fallen shed.
Yes, the holes are only 3" wide, but if stepped into sideways, they
make a person trip, and when there are 20 or more of them within 50
feet of my hay shed, and I am carrying bales, they are dangerous.
There are some spots where the lawn is so soft that mowing is nearly
impossible since the mower wheels sink into the soft spongelike dirt
and blow soil all over the place before stalling the motor.
I do keep all my feed in closed tubs or trash cans (including cat
food). Of course there is always a little spillage.
As far as the skunks, I dont want them around, period.
Outside they are tolerable, but not indoors.
I have been taking all the rocks around here and making a walkway by
the hay shed. It's one way to use up rocks and costs nothing except
time. But the damn things tunnel under the rocks and make them sink
and become uneven.
I will try the moth balls. I am already concerned about the tunnels
under the feed room because when I pour the concrete, I dont want the
concrete to settle. I will lace them with the mothballs. I also
found that pouring household amonia in holes seems to work, but I cant
do that indoors because of the horses. Yet, if I pour it in one hole,
they just dig another tunnel.
As far as cats, I have 18 of them. 8 are indoors, 10 are outdoors.
They are not doing their job.....
Sgt. Giggles of the Kamikaze Gasbag Squadron
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:48:31 +0000 (UTC), enigma <eni...@evil.net>
> wrote:
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Are you one of those crazy old cat-ladies?
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Sgt. Giggles of the Kamikaze Gasbag Squadron
Buy mole traps.
Jim
I think this is really really wonderful how you and your family
coexist with the skunk in such a way as to have made the skunk
feel secure enough to invite his girlfriend to dinner.
good job Lee.
>
> > I plan to spend $350 this week to put concrete in
> > the feed room because I am so tired of all this digging. I
> > had put down treated wood laid on the ground, but these
> > critters cover the wood with dirt because the wood is not
> > cut to fit around the posts and a small border of dirt
> > exists.
>
> sounds like rats. neither skunks nor moles would want anything
> in your feed room, unless you had catfood in there.
> i think you need to find out what your problem is before you
> go off half-cocked.
> >
> > The skunk was a first. Although there are other digging
> > larger animals such as badgers and groundhogs. The moles
> > are the biggest problem though. There is like an
> > infestation of them here. Traps are useless, I wont use
> > poison around my horses. My 22 rifle is about my only
> > alternative if I want to sit there all day watching for the
> > dirt to move. I will cement the feed room, but that wont
> > stop those digging next to me hayshed door or under the
> > cattle mats in the barn.
>
> get rid of grubs & you won't have moles (if you have moles).
> use milky spore to kill the grubs. it's a bacterium that only
> affects grubs, so it won't bother your animals. yes, it's
> expensive to apply, but it lasts for 10 or more years in the
> soil.
http://www.milkyspore.com/milkyspore.htm
> a cat or three will take care of moles, mice, rats,
> squirrels, etc. just make sure they're neutered.
> do you have chickens? free range chickens will eat some of
> the grubs. they'll also eat fly larvae in the cattle/horse
> dung.
> but seriously, i don't think your big problem is moles.
>
> lee
question:
what is the first thing you should do when you detect
the presence of a pest you 'think' you may need to control?
answer:
identify the pest to be sure you know exactly what the
problem is.
question:
how can pest identification help you to develop a good
pest control strategy?
answer:
identification of the pest allows you to determine basic
information about it, including its life cycle and the
time it is most susceptible to being controlled.
Rudy Canoza
as always, working overtime to be stupid, and who hates
his own mommy, lied and presented no challenge:
Fuck off.
alvin...@notmail.com
If you had read the whole thread, I said I have tried them and they do
not work at all. So far the only things that worked was for me to sit
there all day with my 22 and with any luck, shoot the mole in it's
tunnel, or put some amonia in the hole, but then they seem to make a
new tunnel.
Guppy the Corpse Pumper
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:16:16 -0700, "Sgt. Giggles of the Kamikaze
>
> >On Oct 13, 10:34 pm, alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
> >> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my barn. The
> >> other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do skunks eat moles or was
> >> this just a coincidense? Either way, I dont want any of them.....
>
> >> What do skunks eat anyhow?
>
> >> Alv
>
> >Buy mole traps.
>
> If you had read the whole thread, I said I have tried them and they do
> not work at all. So far the only things that worked was for me to sit
> there all day with my 22 and with any luck, shoot the mole in it's
> tunnel, or put some amonia in the hole, but then they seem to make a
> new tunnel.
Throw cats at them. You seem to have enough around to spare.
Rudy Canoza
as always, working overtime to be stupid, and who hates
his own mommy, lied and presented no challenge:
> On Oct 14, 7:44 pm, alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
>> pudgy queer ronnnnnnie hamilton, hopelessly overmatched as always, working overtime to be stupid, and who hates his own mommy, lied and presented no challenge:
>>
>>> On Oct 13, 10:34 pm, alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
>>>> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my barn. The
>>>> other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do skunks eat moles or was
>>>> this just a coincidense? Either way, I dont want any of them.....
>>>> What do skunks eat anyhow?
>>>> Alv
>>> Buy mole traps.
>> If you had read the whole thread, I said I have tried them and they do
>> not work at all. So far the only things that worked was for me to sit
>> there all day with my 22 and with any luck, shoot the mole in it's
>> tunnel, or put some amonia in the hole, but then they seem to make a
>> new tunnel.
>
>
> Throw cats at them.
Fuck off, queer.
Rudy Canoza
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:16:16 -0700, "Sgt. Giggles of the Kamikaze
> Gasbag Squadron" <bc...@canada.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 13, 10:34 pm, alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
>>> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my barn. The
>>> other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do skunks eat moles or was
>>> this just a coincidense? Either way, I dont want any of them.....
>>>
>>> What do skunks eat anyhow?
>>>
>>> Alv
>>
>> Buy mole traps.
>
> If you had read the whole thread, I said I have tried them and they do
> not work at all.
ronnnnnnie hamilton, the pudgy queer who replied to
you, is a notorious troll. Ignore him. He posts under
more than a dozen usenet nyms, including Sgt. Giggles,
Ron, Guppy, Leif Erikson's Brother, Kickin' Goober's
Faggot Ass, Whining Crying Bawl, and lots more. He's a
35-year-old queer in Medicine Hat, Alberta (not making
that up), and he posts from the Medicine Hat Community
College library because he's such a life-long loser he
can't afford a computer and internet service of his own.
Anybody
<pi...@thedismalscience.net> wrote:
> alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:16:16 -0700, "Sgt. Giggles of the Kamikaze
> > Gasbag Squadron" <b...@canada.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Oct 13, 10:34 pm, alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
> >>> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my barn. The
> >>> other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do skunks eat moles or was
> >>> this just a coincidense? Either way, I dont want any of them.....
>
> >>> What do skunks eat anyhow?
>
> >>> Alv
>
> >> Buy mole traps.
>
> > If you had read the whole thread, I said I have tried them and they do
> > not work at all.
>
>He knows I'm gay for his bum.
tell us more about your "chainsaw" Crapface? Does it have a whopping
10 inch bar?
One of those cute little "safety chains" that you can't file the
rakers on?
Did you feel like a real lumberjack when you bought it and went whole
hog and got everything to go with it to impress all the neighbours?
Caulk boots, caulk tool, spare caulks, wool pants, faller's chaps,
tool belt with saw wrenches, bar roller grease gun, wedges, faller's
ax, anti-vibe gloves to prevent "white finger", safety vest, safetly
helmet with full face visor, and hearing protection?
You must be quite a sight as you venture into your weed infested yard
and start felling the big sow thistles.
Rudy Canoza
as always, working overtime to be stupid, and who hates
his own mommy, lied and presented no challenge:
>> alvinamo...@notmail.com wrote:
>>> pudgy queer ronnnnnnie hamilton, hopelessly overmatched as always, working overtime to be stupid, and who hates his own mommy, lied and presented no challenge:
>>>>> I have been having a problem with moles digging under my barn. The
>>>>> other day a skunk dug in the same hole. Do skunks eat moles or was
>>>>> this just a coincidense? Either way, I dont want any of them.....
>>>>> What do skunks eat anyhow?
>>>>> Alv
>>>> Buy mole traps.
>>> If you had read the whole thread, I said I have tried them and they do
>>> not work at all.
>
>
*You* tell us something your straight older brother
told you about them, queer.
veryto...@your-government.com
wrote:
After reading all the latest posts on here, I have but one question.
Where do I get a skunk upgrade kit, and how do I enlarge my skunk? :)
Leif Erikson's Smarter Brother
and <pi...@thedismalscience.net> wrote:
> > tell us more about your "chainsaw"
> I got a chainsaw! I'm a lumberjack!
<sigh> yes we know shitbreath.