Ever Fed Wood To A Beaver?

lockhaven · Aug 8, 2011

Thank you

dave1949 · Aug 9, 2011

I checked on the beaver food I left by their dam last evening. They nibbled off a few branches and moved the birch tree top a little, but most of it is still there.
Dave.

bullbreaker · Aug 9, 2011

Not intentionally !

Boone

jonyyuma · Aug 9, 2011

The crafty little devils can read too???

jonyyuma · Aug 9, 2011

Hey Rod, I don't know about beaver fever, but do know about drinking stream water from a flowing pipe.....then lying on a gurney while they scan my innards with a scanning scope?? Dr. said "No Un-protected water sources for me again"". Ps, my uncle has drank it for 25 years and calls it "Artisian".

lockhaven · Aug 9, 2011

sad state of affairs not being able to drink from streams, I fear i may have lots of bugs in me. As a kid I would drop down and drink from any stream I came across.... even ones down stream from farms. I guess the bugs are worse now.

merrickvilleguy · Aug 10, 2011

lockhaven said:
sad state of affairs not being able to drink from streams, I fear i may have lots of bugs in me. As a kid I would drop down and drink from any stream I came across.... even ones down stream from farms. I guess the bugs are worse now.

one bout of giardia will sort that right out =) It's not fun at all

sandman2234 · Aug 10, 2011

Did I ever mention that my Sister raised several beavers from pups, and kept them in for many years as pets? Seems having a pair of beavers in the back yard were more fun than having dogs. It was a bad day when somebody stole one of them, but it was found in the tub of a local motel a little while later.
David from jax

N80 · Aug 10, 2011

I hate beavers more than hippies, yankees and commies......I've met hippies, yankees and commies that I liked. Never met a beaver that I liked. I kill them whenever I get the chance. Year round.

They have done a staggering amount of damage to my property. I don't even count the hundreds, if not thousands of young pines they've killed. In my most beautiful valley they killed well over 50 hardwood trees all of which were about as big around as two men reaching around. All they did was eat about a 6 inch ring all the way around them. What an incredible waste!

So like others here I feed them lead and steel without mercy. And in general that's not the kind of guy I am (I don't even shoot coyotes). In fact, when they first arrived my Dad wanted to trap them. I thought it was kind of nice to have them there. So naive. So stupid.

As for the pools that they make attracting dragon flies....well I think you might be missing piece of that eco-system puzzle. The pools attract and breed mosquitoes. The mosquitoes attract the dragon flies. The dragon flies cannot make a sizeable dent in the mosquitoes. Therefore: beavers = mosquitoes.

Hate to sound like a grumpy old man but having experienced the loss of beauty, value and income because of beavers I have no soft spot for them in my heart. No other species that I know (other than man) of causes that degree of destruction beyond its survival requirements as the beaver. I would be happy to keep my fire ants, kudzu and coyotes if I could lose the beaver in the deal!

tcreeley · Aug 10, 2011

I've always drank from streams. I never used to carry water- I'd always find it. In jr. high under some power lines I took a drink and had my friend say not to - he knew there was an extra dose of herbicide to keep the brush down. Now I don't know what to think- bugs, herbicide, mercury, acid rain. Town water tastes like chlorox. I guess it's carry your well water.