come send them to heaven for me. I don’t like killing things
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if you dont give them opportunity to enter your buildings, you wont have a problem. spray foam in cracks and crevices is your best friend. i have a decent population in my mature norway spruces and red pines. they mostly leave my fruit and nuts alone so far. i have a bad habit of leaving the garage door open in the summer. sometimes i go in there and find piles of pine cone chaff left on my benches. i only cull when i start to see them in numbers in the trees. all the cats lose around here usually control their population pretty good.
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I lost 90% of my pears last year. They were all on the ground when they were small as you can see they were eaten all the way around the center by the time I figured out what was doing it and how to fix it my season was done.
My first guess was a squirrel but I really do not have any squirrels my orchard is out in the middle of a wide open area and the area is patrolled by hawks.
Turns out it was crows. I have plenty of those. I purchased and hung up a fake dead crow that helped tremendously. Also broke out the 410. I hope I don’t have that problem again this year.
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In my experience, if you shoot one while others are around, they won’t come back for months – and then only a few at a time.
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Yes, that is exactly what happened last year. They were really bad not exactly sure why I had so many. I did have a tornado pass through tore up everything. I really don’t like to kill things and I would see them walking around, but I didn’t think they would hurt my fruit. Once I killed the first one and hung up the fake dead crow they didn’t come back for months of course all my fruit was gone by then.
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i gotta get bro near me to eat these rats
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@clarkinks , thought you may enjoy these Bobkittens we caught on the gamecam:
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They are very cute.
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