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Offline Country Boy

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Armadillos and possums ?
« on: August 14, 2007, 07:03:32 AM »
 It never hit me untill here lately. But, I'm seening a lot of armadillos hit on the road but seldom see a possum any more. Any reason for this ? I'm constantly suprised when I see an armadillo as I didn't think they ranged this far north, Iron county.
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007, 07:09:19 AM »
I don't remember seeing them as a kid in Alabama either.  Only possums, racoons, and rabbits along the roadside.  We see about as many hit deer as armadillos now. 
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007, 03:01:01 PM »
I am sending them up as a gift.  ;D
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 04:40:29 PM »
Now that you've mentioned it, the possum aren't as numerous here in SE Oklahoma either.   But the dillos are everywhere.  Last summer they made so many holes in my pasture I was afraid my livestock might break a leg stepping in one.
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2007, 04:47:39 AM »
Here in the Bootheel of SE Missouri , we still have plenty of both.......I scout cotton fields on weekends...and have run across many of both ....with ...and without the half-shell.....
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2007, 07:30:27 AM »
Don't you know, the armadillos are the new improved possum.  Unfortunately they aren't any smarter.  We still have plenty of the original possums and the ones 'on the half shell' feeding the buzzards in Crawford county. ;)

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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2007, 05:52:24 PM »
It amazes me that 2 critters as dumb as these two can be so prolific.  I havent noticed very many dillos around here as last year.  They were thick around here (texas county) last year but I havent seen near as many this year.  The dogs got a young possum last night in the yard though.
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2007, 06:15:34 AM »
Bowpredator:
Your comment ~ "They were thick around here (texas county) last year" 
was exactlly the way it was here.   I tried to get my son to come out and dispose of some, as they were running around here in the daylight hours, which to me is unusual.   He never had time, so finally I took my .410 single shot and mounted up on my 4wheeler to see if I could rid a few of em.   To my surprise I killed up to 14 within an hour and shot up a whole box of shells, and in broad daylight. ???
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2007, 10:59:40 AM »
Quote from: Bowpredator on August 15, 2007, 05:52:24 PM
It amazes me that 2 critters as dumb as these two can be so prolific.  I havent noticed very many dillos around here as last year.  They were thick around here (texas county) last year but I havent seen near as many this year.  The dogs got a young possum last night in the yard though.
Regarding the breeding habits of dumb critters, it occurs to me that the dumber a critter is, the higher its reproductive capacity needs to be in order for the species to survive. on the other hand, absent the controls put in place by natural selection and survival of the fittest, the dumber of a species seem to outbreed those who would otherwise outcompete them (see liberals, tree-huggers, and welfare queens).  ;)
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2007, 05:15:41 PM »
Quote from: jrnsuz on August 18, 2007, 10:59:40 AM
Quote from: Bowpredator on August 15, 2007, 05:52:24 PM
It amazes me that 2 critters as dumb as these two can be so prolific.  I havent noticed very many dillos around here as last year.  They were thick around here (texas county) last year but I havent seen near as many this year.  The dogs got a young possum last night in the yard though.
Regarding the breeding habits of dumb critters, it occurs to me that the dumber a critter is, the higher its reproductive capacity needs to be in order for the species to survive. on the other hand, absent the controls put in place by natural selection and survival of the fittest, the dumber of a species seem to outbreed those who would otherwise outcompete them (see liberals, tree-huggers, and welfare queens).  ;)

 ;D ;D

I have noticed that alot of Welfare Checks go out to areas that have a high concentration of Armadillos, but I had never put it together.  ;D
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2007, 09:10:18 AM »
Thats funny ! ;D
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2007, 04:07:53 PM »
Last year I was seeing them all the time during the day too when out trail riding.  Usually my dogs would go after them.  They bayed one and as he was trying to dig him a hole under an old stump, I walked up on him and stuck him with my knife.  (washed that knife real good!)

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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2007, 09:03:09 AM »
 If they are harmless why kill them ? But, I don't know much about armaddilos.
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2007, 11:02:54 AM »
I heard that armadillos carried leprosy.  Also, they can dig up and tear up a yard in no time.  Possums use to raid my grandfathers chicken houses, he would catch one every now and then in traps he set outside the chicken houses.  He also caught mink, skunks, and racoons. 
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Re: Armadillos and possums ?
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2007, 02:56:45 PM »
Quote from: Country Boy on August 24, 2007, 09:03:09 AM
If they are harmless why kill them ? But, I don't know much about armaddilos.

If you get more Armadillo's you will know why. They do indeed tear up yard's, as they have done to mine a time or two. They will also junk you garden, so when I see then, I pop them with a 60gr. V-Max.

They have one purpose. As we used to say when I lived in South AR, if you are lost in the big woods, sit on a log & wait on an Armadillo
to pass by, then follow him, he is heading to the highway to get killed.
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