Want to purchase live beavers

[dfrobert]

Looking to purchase a few live beavers. There is a small pond on my fathers land that we would like to release a few beavers into so they can dam it up. The property at one time had beavers on it but the previous owner had them shot/trapped. Basically need the beavers to raise the water level in the pond......any thoughts fellas???

[fluxcore]

Originally Posted by dfrobert

Looking to purchase a few live beavers. There is a small pond on my fathers land that we would like to release a few beavers into so they can dam it up. The property at one time had beavers on it but the previous owner had them shot/trapped. Basically need the beavers to raise the water level in the pond......any thoughts fellas???

You can do what I did back in the day, used to get lots Put on some nice clothes and some good Cologne, stop off at a bank machine so you have some funds and head out to a local pub. It doesn't hurt to go through a few tossed out bank receipts until you find one with a huge balance this can be used to write your number on and could get you lucky the next day,. Good luck

[1899b]

Flux beat me to it.

[redneck posse]

Originally Posted by fluxcore

You can do what I did back in the day, used to get lots Put on some nice clothes and some good Cologne, stop off at a bank machine so you have some funds and head out to a local pub. It doesn't hurt to go through a few tossed out bank receipts until you find one with a huge balance this can be used to write your number on and could get you lucky the next day,. Good luck

NO NO NO thats how you catch cougars. for beavers ya gotta show them your wood,,

[redneck posse]

ask the county they may have a few they want relocated.

[firegod74]

I'm sure if you talk to your local farmers they will tell you you can keep any you can catch Gonna be quite the rodeo though.

[fluxcore]

Originally Posted by firegod74

I'm sure if you talk to your local farmers they will tell you you can keep any you can catch Gonna be quite the rodeo though.

[DennyV]

Its called rent a trackhoe....

[HerdBull]

Trackhoe? That's no fun. Let's go catch a couple with our bare hands. We'll drag em kickin and screamin and throw em in burlap sacs. We'll put em in the back of the truck and haul em to the new place. I'd be on that like flies on crap lol.

[sourdough doug]

Go to your yellow pages and see what you can find under Animal Damage Control (ADC). Some one there could probably tell you where you can rent a live trap or they be able to cut you a deal and do it for you. Sometime the MD's / Countys have people who do this but not many live trap. Halford's in Edm might also have the live traps as well. They are not cheap therefore I would see if I could rent or gert an ADC guy to do it for you..

[IR_mike]

Just a open question, but if the habitat is present would the beavers have not found it on their own?

[joeti7]

Originally Posted by HerdBull

Trackhoe? That's no fun. Let's go catch a couple with our bare hands. We'll drag em kickin and screamin and throw em in burlap sacs. We'll put em in the back of the truck and haul em to the new place. I'd be on that like flies on crap lol.

Ironically enough, last Sunday the wife and I were beavering on the creek, one popped up so close to the bank I was standing on it was just point and shoot. Well he started doing the familiar spins in the water, told the old lady "Hurry up and grab it". She tells me "are you ******ed, its still alive". So me to the rescue, over the old 2 wire fence, across the beaver damn, break through the ice on the bank trying to stretch for it, up to my stomach in water now and grab the bugger by the tail. Well as luck has it I just grazed it on the nose and he was very much alive. So wife is on the other side of the creek, beaver is trying to bite me and I no longer have my gun with me. But I'm not letting him go because thats my $17 kicking and biting at me. So I put him so his front feet were on the ground and he was trying to scramble away, but I'm dragging him towards the gun by the tail so we can end the excitement. Well try to imagine getting a live beaver over a barbed wire fence that is the very least to say ****ed at you. Got him out and to the gun, reloaded the gun and lifted the beaver up with 1 hand and holding the gun in the other get it to his head and it was all over. Cold, bleeding(as I cut myself a good on the barbed wire, trying not to get bit) and a wife that just doesn't understand why I love doing what I do, with a big smile on my face we make our way back to the truck. I love it.

[bingo1010]

i think post #2 sounds like more fun

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by bingo1010

i think post #2 sounds like more fun

Also, the only one that makes any sense. Our dog cornered one in the woods one day. Never realized how big they are and he was bound and determined to have that German Shepherd , for lunch.

Grizz

[leo]

As far as I know it is illegal to purchase wildlife in Alberta (dead or alive) without a permit! As a retired farmer all I can say is be careful what you wish for . Them little critters don't know when the water is "high enough".

[nick0danger]

My couisin has some on his land, he wants the beaver ponds, but they are really doing a number on his tress, so he trying to control the numbers, its a little tough though as he wants 1 or 2 around we counted 12 last fall.

[DJS]

Originally Posted by HerdBull

Trackhoe? That's no fun. Let's go catch a couple with our bare hands. We'll drag em kickin and screamin and throw em in burlap sacs. We'll put em in the back of the truck and haul em to the new place. I'd be on that like flies on crap lol.

You can't even shoot one!! How the heck will you get one with your bare hands? lol

[HerdBull]

Shaadap Meech lol. I'm goin tmrw EVENING lol... You comin?

[AB2506]

Originally Posted by nick0danger

My couisin has some on his land, he wants the beaver ponds, but they are really doing a number on his tress, so he trying to control the numbers, its a little tough though as he wants 1 or 2 around we counted 12 last fall.

You have to decide which is more important, trees or water filled ponds. If you want to keep the trees, I would build a dam yourself.

Make sure you get the proper permits.

[hardhitter]

check out plenty of fish...theres lots of live beavers there!

[pointer]

just put wire mesh around the bottom of the trees you want to keep and let em take care of the rest easy way to get wood for the fire pit after it down and all limbed out for ya lol

[predatorzedge]

Originally Posted by joeti7

Ironically enough, last Sunday the wife and I were beavering on the creek, one popped up so close to the bank I was standing on it was just point and shoot. Well he started doing the familiar spins in the water, told the old lady "Hurry up and grab it". She tells me "are you ******ed, its still alive". So me to the rescue, over the old 2 wire fence, across the beaver damn, break through the ice on the bank trying to stretch for it, up to my stomach in water now and grab the bugger by the tail. Well as luck has it I just grazed it on the nose and he was very much alive. So wife is on the other side of the creek, beaver is trying to bite me and I no longer have my gun with me. But I'm not letting him go because thats my $17 kicking and biting at me. So I put him so his front feet were on the ground and he was trying to scramble away, but I'm dragging him towards the gun by the tail so we can end the excitement. Well try to imagine getting a live beaver over a barbed wire fence that is the very least to say ****ed at you. Got him out and to the gun, reloaded the gun and lifted the beaver up with 1 hand and holding the gun in the other get it to his head and it was all over. Cold, bleeding(as I cut myself a good on the barbed wire, trying not to get bit) and a wife that just doesn't understand why I love doing what I do, with a big smile on my face we make our way back to the truck. I love it.

Next time ya get one give me a call we'll throw it in a guys truck or van an watch what happens when he gets in lmao, ooh boy would be a rodeo for sure