How do I trap varmits at my ranch in Texas?

Question

i dont wanna spend a lot of money , i just wanna catch some rabbits,coons,squrials,fox,and small pigs.

Answer 1

..each animal is a different kind of trapping...and it matters if you want them alive, or dead, or just cought..
Say for instance you want to start with coons...they are kinda easy..they are scavengers, and 'sents' work good on them...live traps by victor or newhose with drop spring loaded doors work very well.
If you want squirls, and to take them alive, there are cage traps at sporting goods stors like Cabellas, or Gean Tallors that will do the job..baits varry by the kind of squirl your after, but the principal is the same.
Foxes are easy too..they get them selves accostomed to some sorce of chow and they get plumb careless about things...but i happen to appreciate the fox..they are symbolic to us. [native american] and i wont help you interrupt them on there path...so...
Pigs can be trapped..alive..with 'funnel-trap' designed catches...[like minnows from a pond]... but you need to know that havolina will chew your butt off if you give them an opertunity..so be carefull, ...
Rabits have obvious 'runs' they habbituate,and snares or deadfalls work prety good on them..
Phesents are a cinch to trap, with a piece of chicken wire bent into a tube just big enough for them to scrunch into...they get to the end of a blocked off tube and cant turn around to get out, or back up..
Quail are like that in a way...a chicken wire inclosure, with flaps about 3 inches high from the ground..they push there way into it and the flap falls down benind them...get 7 - 8- or more at a time that way..
gophers can be cought by a variety of means..my grndfther used a cedar shingel with trebbel hooks on it...pushed the shingel down the hole and they got hung on a hook when they ran back in there holes.. but i have not done that...i just saw him do it..
we used to catch horses and burrows with hoof snares and drags once...but i aint very proud of doing that, so...
bobcats were fun to catch..we took them for there fur...one cat got to where it was worth 3 - 4 hundred buck , but thankfully those days are gone now...they are so beautiful, and i dont feel very proud of my self for trapping them eather...so..
bears are ...well ya dont have any bears to speek of in texas..so thats no count..

the thing is...a wild animal is just a life ment to give your life some wonder and happyness and joy, and the more of them an individual kills the fewre folks there are who get to see them... so do your old age a favor and respect the nature of the world around you...the animals around you arent YOURS..they belong to this earth, every bit as much as you do.

Answer 2

I can help with pigs but not the others. Get yourself some starposts and create a figure six with them (a small spiral) with a centre diameter of about 3 meters. Use some old concreters mesh to fence it making sure that were your spiral closes your do not fasten it. Throw some corn, potatoes,or anything else pigs will eat into the centre. The pigs should work their way around the fence (spiral) entering where the spiral meets and enter. The spiral should close back on them trapping them within the circle. Make sure that the location you set this up on is frquented by pigs.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Go to the feed store and get a small animal trap, they usually have live traps for about $25-30. If your local feed store doesn't have one, and if you have no other option, try Tractor Supply (the Wal-Mart of farm and ranch supplies), Academy, Cabela's or Bass Pro Shops.

Answer 5

Look over the live traps at the feed store, then make a bigger version out of cow panels. toss some brush on the sides, back, and top. It works.

Answer 6

Here are several easy to build inexpensive ideas for trapping vermin roaming the Great State of Texas:
http://www.homestead.com/Troop2/files/Traps.pdf

Answer 7

Try HavaHart Traps (http://www.havahart.com/nuisance/cagetrap_quickguide.asp) if you want to trap them alive.

Doc

Answer 8

Cindy Sheehan retired, sorry.

Answer 9

if legal u can use a locking or unlocking snare

Answer 10

Sounds game to me... get a gun and have some fun!