Recent content by wildlifefarmer

Guys I’m glad y’all got the opportunity to burn. I’m a chicken it when I burn. RH less than 40 and winds less than 10 with no gusts over 12. I’ve had too many rabbits come jump out across the firebreaks on fire. I’ll wait now with the green up well on its way until next year.

Yes, you can trap and hunt yotes all year long. There are some traps and baits that target a specific species. However if you’re targeting yotes you will most likely catch other predators as well. Who wants to turn loose of a big tom? So, to answer your question of what you might catch, the...

If I’m not mistaken you can trap yotes coons possums all year long. But once you get to my age 4 to six weeks is enough. However I normally catch 3 to 8 cats, but I hate letting any of them go!!

Did you get a pic of do buzzard?? That’s would be funny to see 😳

I’m sad to see the season over but overall had a good one. Only had traps out less than four weeks. Four of the yotes had the mange. One of them had it so bad she got wet and froze to death. In a way felt kinda sorry for the mangee ones. 10 yotes 3 cats 1 coon 6 possums 1 buzzard 1 lost trap

Way to go REM. It’s addictive. Christmas every day!! You just don’t know what is under the tree!!

If you cure the pelts I would recommend sending them to Moyle Mink to have tanned

This little kitty wasn’t getting away . Look closely, she was in both traps at a bait pile. 2nd cat in 3 checks. It’s just like Christmas!!

That’s a good looking cat. After waiting for things to thaw out and the rain to stop, I finally got my traps out. Two days checking the line had 1 coon 4 possums 1 yote and a 21 pound tom. A great late start on the trap line.

Growing up I was a countryfide city boy. Neighbors helped kill hogs for meat to eat. Walking through the grown up fields to kick up rabbits and quail on any of those neighbors fields was the norm. Our grandad passed away and grandma some years later sold the farm. 40 years of dreaming and...

Seeing how you have contacted the NCRS you have a contact. They work with TN Forestry which holds a burn school annually. Go to the school to get the facts about fire. This will be very valuable information to you. We burn 10 to 70 acres annually for habitat. Bigger burns are performed by TNF ...

A lot of help when burning. 4 additional people to watch firebreaks. Humidity of approximately 45% or less. And no more than 10 mph winds. Backing fire ( into wind) is safest. Best thing is to get the Tn Forestry to burn for you.

The CC heads will turn brown in mid to late May. Drill directly through the clover I’ll even leave the existing corn stalks standing. Fertilize now with base fertilizer. Once the corn germinates spray with glyphosate and put down nitrogen. One problem you’ll encounter will be with rogue corn...

I wanted to give y’all an update about the drilled corn through mature CC. If you look back in this post you will see the corn and now you can see the CC after the hard freeze and snow.

The stake puller is the ticket. However I don’t use chain on the earth anchor, I use12 inches of cable.