I keep catching porcupines!! errrrr!
05-10-2010, 03:24 PM
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Typical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 30 miles from park city UT on 1,500 acres.
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I keep catching porcupines!! errrrr!
I am sick of catchin Porcupines in my coyote-fox traps! 
Are porcupines attracted to meat or somethin? How can I avoid catchin them? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Are porcupines attracted to meat or somethin? How can I avoid catchin them? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
05-11-2010, 07:04 AM
#2
Fork Horn
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Location: Northern NY, aka God's Country
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Porkys loooove plywood. Its like crack to them. But I doubt you are using plywood in your sets. Are you using meat on the bone for bait? Porkys will eat bone for calcium. They clean up all of my deer deer bones at camp.
05-11-2010, 05:40 PM
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Typical Buck
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I am using squirrles for bait. Is that the prob?
05-12-2010, 05:23 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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We had a porcupine problem here at work a couple years ago and hired an ADC man to come in and trap them. He used salted apples for bait to catch them and placed the traps along walls because he said that porcupines have poor vision and will use things such as walls, chain link fence, etc. as a guide to get around and that they liked to follow the "edge" for guidence. SO maybe your sets are along an edge or on a well used trail that the porcupines use and need to get off the beaten path?
05-12-2010, 10:36 AM
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We had a porcupine problem here at work a couple years ago and hired an ADC man to come in and trap them. He used salted apples for bait to catch them and placed the traps along walls because he said that porcupines have poor vision and will use things such as walls, chain link fence, etc. as a guide to get around and that they liked to follow the "edge" for guidence. SO maybe your sets are along an edge or on a well used trail that the porcupines use and need to get off the beaten path?
05-14-2010, 06:44 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Porcupine guard hair sells for $10 - $15 per OUNCE. (of course a porcupine only has about 3/4 ounce of guard hair on them)
Procupine quills sell for pretty good money also and even their claws are worth something. Their skulls bring decent money too.
Hope you haven't just been throwing them away, with a little work a porcupine probably is worth more than the coyotes and foxes you are trying to catch.
Procupine quills sell for pretty good money also and even their claws are worth something. Their skulls bring decent money too.
Hope you haven't just been throwing them away, with a little work a porcupine probably is worth more than the coyotes and foxes you are trying to catch.
05-23-2010, 02:55 PM
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Fork Horn
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I GOT IT
DRUMROLL....
THE POKEY PILLOWS
just think you will sweep the nation with these new pillows that fit with any home decor.
You will make MILLIONS
Ahhh if only i could persuade you of the economic possibilties of Pokey Pillows.
You could go into buisness and get a private airplane you could have your name on life magazine you would be the top topic on all talkshows..........
Okay time to wake up.
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