Armadillos

[almar]

They carry leprosy i wouldn't even touch them.

[Texas by God]

You can’t pick full grown ones up by the tail- it will break off. When you catch them with both hands, keep your fingers as close to the back feet as possible, because it will claw the skin right off of your hands with its front digging claws. Learned that in one try!
I haven’t touched one since I learned of the leprosy thing forty years ago.


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[Gator 45/70]

As kids do my brother and I would run em down and catch em until.....One crapped on him hanging upside-down!
That cured me as I laughing at him.
Did I mention as a kid we were dumb as a box of rocks?

[45workhorse]

When I was in the Air Force, living in Sherman, Texas in the 60's I shot a lot of them with my recurve bow using my homemade wooden shafts. They sure were hard on the wooden arrows, they would break them off almost every time either going down a hole or running off through the brush. I also got Raccoons & a few Possums. The most fun was those big old Texas bullfrogs, I shot lots of them with my bow.

Dick

I shot one with a 45-70, lyman Gould bullet cast with WW. It went in through the right rear, exited the front left! Critter still made it to it's hole! Covered the entrance, no exit!
So I can only image what they would do to an arrow!

[elmacgyver0]

Armadillos don't seem to get much love, but I have never heard of one becoming a politician.
People can also carry leprosy, and some of them become politicians.
If I don't bother armadillos, they don't bother me.
I can't say the same for politicians.
Think about it.

[Winger Ed.]

How do you find an armadillo, for recreational purposes?

Sometimes you'll see them in the day time, but they're mostly active at night.

[Finster101]

Me and my .22 are about to have a late night rendezvous with the one that keeps digging around my pole barn . I'm worried one of my dogs will mess up a leg in the holes.

[Shanghai Jack]

I grew up in Texas, and the only armadillos I ever saw were road pizza.

Armadillos are born on the road dead.

[Winger Ed.]

Armadillos are born on the road dead.

If you try to straddle one crossing the road, when the car goes over them, they jump straight up.

[justindad]

I’m curious…
Armadillo + .218 Mashburn Bee = ???

[higgins]

When one is hit on the road and not broken open it's kinda funny to watch vultures figuring out how to best break into it. I saw a couple of vultures eating what was left of one that had been mashed flat; it was laying upside down and it looked like they were eating off of a plate.

[contender1]

Der Gibirgsjager,,, I was about to say; "Uh-oh,, he saw me at Ft. Hood.'

But you were there LONG before I was.

In 1977, I got assigned to Ft. Hood as well. Having previously caught several (and eaten some) armadillos I was very familiar on how to catch them, clean them, & all.
Well, walking back from the PX to barracks one late afternoon, I spied a "dillo." Well, I caught him and carried it back to the barracks. As noted,, many of the other soldiers had never seen one or knew anything about them. I even have a picture of me holding that one. Well, for some reason,, I released it in the hallway of the barracks. Lots of screaming, and running, followed by the slamming of doors etc. Especially from the black soldiers. (NO OFFENSE meant here,, just stating the facts.)

Now,, I work in Animal Damage Control. And we are on alert to finding them here in the mountains of WNC. So far,, no calls or complaints about them.

[sukivel]

Possum on a half shell

That’s it!!!


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[barnetmill]

Well armadillos are said to dig up and eat yellow jacket wasp nests and so that is a good thing. They are dumber than possums both of which have a short life expectancy if they venture into my little of bit Eden. My pup little guy kills them.
Long and skinny and so he only weighs 90 lbs with maybe 15% of it in his head. The first one he killed scratched him across the muzzle and the skin became infected. He has killed many others since without any damage. The first ones he crushed. But later I would find that they had buried themselves and he seems to have learned to break their necks after allowing them to partially bury themselves in. His mother seeks the dead ones out and rolls on them when they get real ripe. But after several weeks when they reach the right consistency he and his older sister will pull them out of the hole and start to eat them if I have not already located them.


They are most active at night. The last two that were killed I still smell. I threw one over the fence and the other that was still in the ground I covered with logs to keep the dogs off of the rotting carcass.
PS I am in northwest florida

[Winger Ed.]

I threw one over the fence

It's been my experience that fences do very little to stop the smell.

[725]

One farmer asked me to shot everyone I saw. His cattle would break legs in their holes.

[barnetmill]

It's been my experience that fences do very little to stop the smell.

I wanted one of the dogs to quick rolling in it and hope some other predator would be brave or hungry enough to eat the armadillo on the side of the fence. But apparently they are too frightened of patch to even come over to approach the fence to eat or just did not care for dead armadillo.
Below is the one that likes to roll on dead critters. I have recently renamed her as Miss Piggy.

[Winger Ed.]

[QUOTE=barnetmill;5545906]Below is the one that likes to roll on dead critters. I have recently renamed her as Miss Piggy.

Ours do that too.
One seeks out dead earthworms to roll on.

The other waits unit he can find some nice, fresh possum poop.
That may be the most foul thing I've ever smelled.

[sukivel]

I’m curious…
Armadillo + .218 Mashburn Bee = ???

= Too much fun!


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[GregLaROCHE]

[QUOTE=Winger Ed.;5545911]

Below is the one that likes to roll on dead critters. I have recently renamed her as Miss Piggy.

Ours do that too.
One seeks out dead earthworms to roll on.

The other waits unit he can find some nice, fresh possum poop.
That may be the most foul thing I've ever smelled.

We once had a border collie less than a year old. We gave him a bath in our bathtub with shampoo and conditioner. We dried him with towels and he shook off what water was left. He looked good standing there for a moment until he bolted out the door. The neighbors had just finished spreading manure on their field and he was right there rolling in it. That was the last bath he ever got!