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Had this big beaver move into my pond last week. I have never had beaver on my place before. Always was jealous of my neighbors that always got beaver while I was'nt, but I finally got my own, and its a big one. This first pic looks like he is eating one of the neighbor kids.

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My farm is all hills that dont have alot of water. I put this dam in 14 years ago, but the water has never reached the tube yet. Two 1/2 mile ditches come together with good springs running in both. The water level now is good but as it gets hot and dry it will go down. Right now the beaver has a lodge dug into the bank up one of the spring arms at water level, but not doing any dam building. As the water goes down this summer will he begin damming the spring arms by instinct or move out?I hope he sticks around, the more water I can store the better.Thought I would ask you guys that have had more experiance with beaver than me.
 
We have beaver, lots of them. But we also have lots of creek bottoms running through our land... if we knew you wanted some dad would've LOVED to pack them up and send them your way! :D
 
LoessHillsArcher said:
We have beaver, lots of them. But we also have lots of creek bottoms running through our land... if we knew you wanted some dad would've LOVED to pack them up and send them your way! :D
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You can say that again! The only good beaver on my property is a dead beaver. One family can do a lot of distruction in one years time. The novelty of having the beaver around will wear off real quick!
 
I would get rid of it and any muskrats as soon as they show up. They usually end up digging into the dam and it eventually ends up not holding any water. I have seen some good ponds end up going dry, due to the fact that the bentonite seal was breached.
 
Wow, alot of hate for the beavers. My situation is I have no bentonite in my pond so I lose water pretty quick late summer. If the beaver can go up closer to where the springs start and build, like their instinct should tell them to do, I could hold more water up and down the 1/2 mile ditch.Eighty percent of my farm is timber so I dont mind the TSI work. They should'nt cause too much trouble should they, other than stashing cornstalks?
 
Jordan,LHA, I will take all the beaver you can hook me up with. We can send the extra to Bowtech150.
 
Back in high school years ago me and my buddies used to go on beaver hunts. I remember well the times I actually caught a beaver and was quite proud of myself but when I look back on it, more times than not all I woke up with in the morning was a pounder...........:drink1:
 
The only problem we have with beaver is they dam up cricks and overflow pipes on the ponds causing water to back up into fields. Interesting note on the muskrats. We've got a bunch of those things too but never had any trouble with them. I'd say in your case if you don't have crop fields that water can back up into then you've got no worries. Beaver are some neat creatures!
 
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Back in high school years ago me and my buddies used to go on beaver hunts. I remember well the times I actually caught a beaver and was quite proud of myself but when I look back on it, more times than not all I woke up with in the morning was a pounder...........:drink1:
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We used to hunt beaver in your neck of the woods years back. First beaver I ever seen without front teeth was in Waukon.
 
I can see where this thread could go a lot of different directions :grin:. I will stick to the original intent. We have huge problems with beavers damming up creeks, and then almost any measurable rain event causes flooding in our bottom ground food plots.

One of our most productive (and favorite) areas to hunt has become impossible to use for plots anymore. We aren't even going to try to plant it this year. Last year was the 2nd year in a row that our spring and fall plots got wiped out. We may just let it seed itself back and leave it for bedding cover.

The majority of the dams are down stream on neighboring properties, so there isn't really anything we can do. We will adjust and hunt accordingly :mad:.

Dan
 
If you like the trees around your pond.........get rid of the beaver. I had a guy tell me "don't trap my f-ing beaver, if you do you're done trapping here". The next fall he begged me to trap them all. All of the trees around 2 of his ponds were laying on the ground :way:
 
Handcannon said:
If you like the trees around your pond.........get rid of the beaver. I had a guy tell me "don't trap my f-ing beaver, if you do you're done trapping here". The next fall he begged me to trap them all. All of the trees around 2 of his ponds were laying on the ground :way:
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Not only will they drop every tree they can; they'll tear a corn field apart! You'd be suprised at how many corn stalks they'll use for their dam and den. What bothers me is they will drop trees, and not even to use them.
 
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