The concept is correct, funneling or drift fencing, but double door traps will literally work twice as good because they will catch armadillos both coming and going from either direction, also without bait. Because armadillos are little "tanks," they are rough on cage traps. You will notice that the trap pictured, after only one catch, is beginning to fail. The metal door is starting to bend. Traps like these do not last long. Pans and connecting rods often fail too. We started using small, Comstock 9x11x24 inch double powered door live cage traps in 2010 that now have trigger wires that fall off after a catch is made, which means they do not get damaged. These traps are all but bullet proof, good for hundreds of catches.
He is 100% correct. I started using double door traps earlier this year and immediately started catching more armadillos. Well with the expense plus they are high quality traps and will last a lifetime.
Can somebody please tell me what the importance of the boards are on either side of the entrance to the trap? The area where my armadillo is digging into my yard is a wide open area. I would love for someone who knows the answer to let me know. Thank you in advance.
The boards are to guide them to the trap, once they bump into it they will generally follow along it to the opening of the trap. In a wide open area I would set up a wide funnel at a 45 degree angle from the corners of the trap opening at least 12 feet long and hope it works. I would suggest surveying the area and following its pattern, for example if you first noticed the damage on the left side of your yard progressing to the right then I would set up my trap on the right at the point where the damage has stopped the night before with the mindset that it would return and continue to feed in that general direction.
I had four armadillos in my back yard a week ago. We never had them here in North Florida, least not in this urban neighborhood. Now the critters are digging tunnels under my fences, digging up my flowerbeds looking for worms. I think they are gross. Possums are gross too and smell so very, very, very bad. I'd say just release the damned possum somewhere else. Possums are NOT raccoons and I doubt they migrate back the way racs do, but really, I haven't looked into it.
So what makes you have more right to live then nature itself armadillos and possums are a very beneficial part of nature. Maybe you should do some research into possums do you know that they eat thousands of ticks in their life time and ticks cause Lyme disease. Possums do not cause any diseases and as far as armadillos go they are an exotic animal to our country. But that does not mean they're bad. Just have a professional trap or come out and remove them hopefully you will hire somebody that humane catch and release have a heart after all nature is important to us all and animals have a right to live just like humans.
This may sound crud but I've shot them to thin the out in the past on my property one day and the next day you couldn't even tell I had done anything because there was just as many that had took the others place.
The concept is correct, funneling or drift fencing, but double door traps will literally work twice as good because they will catch armadillos both coming and going from either direction, also without bait. Because armadillos are little "tanks," they are rough on cage traps. You will notice that the trap pictured, after only one catch, is beginning to fail. The metal door is starting to bend. Traps like these do not last long. Pans and connecting rods often fail too. We started using small, Comstock 9x11x24 inch double powered door live cage traps in 2010 that now have trigger wires that fall off after a catch is made, which means they do not get damaged. These traps are all but bullet proof, good for hundreds of catches.
He is 100% correct. I started using double door traps earlier this year and immediately started catching more armadillos. Well with the expense plus they are high quality traps and will last a lifetime.
So what bait did you use? Did no good to view this as the essential ingredient is missing
You don't use bait for Armadillos.
Charles Lane Thanks for the reply. So easy to do as per your video.
Did he say euthanize?
The Lord is going to call it home.
Can somebody please tell me what the importance of the boards are on either side of the entrance to the trap? The area where my armadillo is digging into my yard is a wide open area. I would love for someone who knows the answer to let me know. Thank you in advance.
The boards are to guide them to the trap, once they bump into it they will generally follow along it to the opening of the trap. In a wide open area I would set up a wide funnel at a 45 degree angle from the corners of the trap opening at least 12 feet long and hope it works. I would suggest surveying the area and following its pattern, for example if you first noticed the damage on the left side of your yard progressing to the right then I would set up my trap on the right at the point where the damage has stopped the night before with the mindset that it would return and continue to feed in that general direction.
the boardsare there to help lead him into the trap..arms r quite blind also!
I had four armadillos in my back yard a week ago. We never had them here in North Florida, least not in this urban neighborhood. Now the critters are digging tunnels under my fences, digging up my flowerbeds looking for worms. I think they are gross. Possums are gross too and smell so very, very, very bad. I'd say just release the damned possum somewhere else. Possums are NOT raccoons and I doubt they migrate back the way racs do, but really, I haven't looked into it.
So what makes you have more right to live then nature itself armadillos and possums are a very beneficial part of nature. Maybe you should do some research into possums do you know that they eat thousands of ticks in their life time and ticks cause Lyme disease. Possums do not cause any diseases and as far as armadillos go they are an exotic animal to our country. But that does not mean they're bad. Just have a professional trap or come out and remove them hopefully you will hire somebody that humane catch and release have a heart after all nature is important to us all and animals have a right to live just like humans.
Let me guess you're from up North And you moved to Florida.
No need to kill it.!!!!!
Well in Texas and Florida its illegal to relocate them. So yes there is a need. They are a non-game invasive species.
What is he supposed to do? Turn it loose somewhere else so someone else can have their yard torn up?
Why kill them why not release way out into woods
Because they’re a nuisance and an invasive species.
TO KILL THE ANIMAL IS JUST WRONG NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY TO SPIN IT. RELOCATE IT GOD WOULD SAY.
+Robert Baumann shut up idiot.
+Robert Baumann and relocate any disease it may have. Relocation is always a bad thing.
Well, lets put it this way....if it were YOU would YOU want to be relocated or killed. I rest my case.
This may sound crud but I've shot them to thin the out in the past on my property one day and the next day you couldn't even tell I had done anything because there was just as many that had took the others place.
It goes to show you shooting them doesn't work anyway.