Post by rodney on Feb 11, 2016 20:47:22 GMT -5
Past few years I have noticed a decline of rabbit, turkey and deer on our farm here in central Virginia. This deer season I had several sightings of coyotes working as a pack surrounding and literally doing deer and turkey drives. In the snow this year, following their tracks it became obvious that they are definitely the problem with our low deer, turkey and rabbit population. After trying to hunt them unsuccessfully I have decided trapping is the only way. So I jumped on line and ordered a dozen #2 foothold traps. Coyote urine, fox urine, suspicion eliminator, etc. and gathered all information I could to get rid of these yotes. Let them rust, boiled em, dyed em, waxed em and hit the woods with my rubber boots on and all my supplies in a five gallon bucket. I set trench sets and cubby hole sets. Next morning went to check them and had a giant red fox in one trap and a skunk in another. Was ecstatic about the fox. I thought taking him out was gonna help our rabbits also. Of course, was not so excited about the skunk. Yes, he sprayed the trap site. I wasn't too discouraged, I had heard that this can be a good thing when trying to catch yotes. Buried the skunk, reset the trap. Returned the next morning and my trap had been dug up and flipped over and the skunk had been dug up and was gone. My question is, in doing so my rubber boots were all over the area and contaminated with skunk smell. The skunk had obviously sprayed before I got there. Is it a bad thing as I am checking other traps, now I feel like I am leaving a big number 11 rubber boot contaminated with skunk smell to all of my other sets? If so what should I do?