Well, it appears that you have "handled" this particular dilemma pretty well. Around these parts, woodchucks are just like dope dealers in Washington, D.C. When one of them gets shot his cousins move into the house the very next day!!!! It is about impossible to wipe them out of this area, but I am sure there are areas that it can be done. One thing we do when they get thin is to refrain from killing them in the early spring when they first come out of their dens...if it's a big female and you kill her you probably killed the entire litter. One other thing I have read about them is that in the wild just about all of them only live three or four years because they get a form of "woodchuck hepatitis" that is extremely contagious, but thankfully only to woodchucks. When that comes around it really knocks them back.
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I have heard of this...don't know if there is any hard science to it though.
Yeah, I don't either...the way I read it virtually ALL of them end up getting infected and die, but I have one in my back yard that, admittedly might not be the same one, but for like 10 years this big completely gray woodchuck lives. he has a den just in the woods, but I see him all the time and although I could have taken him out several times easy....I don't know, I just leave him alone.
Edit; I was guessing you are referring to the hepatitis and not the dope dealers cousins moving in???? If the later, that is absolutely a fact!!!!
snert
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Not to be the "I happened to know" guy, all the time, BUT...
I worked in a certain Central NY county in which a certain "Black OPs" little cement building was kept by a large university of the leftist type that also happened to do a lot of research on hepatitus. I discovered it when I was sent way out into the boondocks on an alarm in the middle of the night. before I arrived two other deputies were started that way and my computer lit up with cautions. Turned out it was a place hit by ELF or ALF, a so called animal terrorist group becuase work was done there with woodchucks and hep, to see if there was a way to treat humans with similar problems. So protocol indicated that multiple officers be sent because of the past problems caused by said group. Turned out that this alarm was simply a horny male chuck who had torn his way out of his cage and was visiting the gals, setting off numerous motion alarms.
So there is a lot to the HEP thing, and yes, they get it, pass it around and it kills them dead.
I worked in a certain Central NY county in which a certain "Black OPs" little cement building was kept by a large university of the leftist type that also happened to do a lot of research on hepatitus. I discovered it when I was sent way out into the boondocks on an alarm in the middle of the night. before I arrived two other deputies were started that way and my computer lit up with cautions. Turned out it was a place hit by ELF or ALF, a so called animal terrorist group becuase work was done there with woodchucks and hep, to see if there was a way to treat humans with similar problems. So protocol indicated that multiple officers be sent because of the past problems caused by said group. Turned out that this alarm was simply a horny male chuck who had torn his way out of his cage and was visiting the gals, setting off numerous motion alarms.
So there is a lot to the HEP thing, and yes, they get it, pass it around and it kills them dead.
Snert, somebody's gotta do it!!! How are the rest of us supposed to learn anything?????
Lone Hunter
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I thought the hepatitis came in grains! Mostly 32-60 grs.but it also comes in heavier doses. I've shot a lot of them but I've never heard of the hepatitis for them. Our population around here does like yours. Used to be a bunch then it was laid on "The Coyotes Got Them", and now they seem to be making a comeback. Wish they would make a comeback,sure enjoyed watching and shooting them. Good times gone in the past.
No, your talking about the vaccine...you inject that to keep them from getting the virus. One injection and I guarantee they wont have to worry about no hepatitis!!!!!
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