especially a warmer day about 38 degrees right now the Ducks are doing pretty
well they're pretty happy the water isn't freezing so they really have no
complaints whatsoever over the last week or so we've had two snowstorms that have
dropped a total of about 18 inches and I was totally not expecting that so today
I'm taking advantage of this nice weather and I'm gonna do some final
cleanup around the farm that I should have done before we had snow my guess is
that it won't be until April 21st that we have no more snow on the ground so
let's see how accurate I am but you know last year we even had our final
snowstorm I think was April 30th
so I was just at my local feed store and I made a pretty good score they were
selling loose bags of straw so I've got this gigantic loose bag of straw that I
filled up in the back of the pickup truck and I'm about to take it out to
the Ducks
Oh
here we go well I'm probably good with how much hay I have here for bedding it
was really nice to find some cheap straw you know I made a video a couple weeks
ago about the advantages of using hay is our bedding and I've been finding it's
been working great but straw does work better there's just no question about it
and so when I could get cheap straw I got the entire bag for 20 bucks you know
seemed like a good deal special thanks to my friend Lindsey for
the tip I almost dropped my camera again there oh boy
so last night we had a little bit of an incident I don't know maybe around 10
o'clock we were just sitting around the house with some friends Pablo's been
sprayed a few turns that's a big scum
little lows okay she did not get sprayed by the skunk I would absolutely not be
holding her like this if that was the case but it has made me realize that I'm
gonna have to do something about this skunk generally speaking I've been very
live-and-let-live with things like skunks and possums and woodchucks they
really don't harm us and so I don't try to harm them but this skunk is getting a
little bit brazen and I'm worried about him spraying the cats or Alison or me so
I'm gonna have to do something about it what am I gonna do well
I got this here have a heart trap or maybe a generic version of a half a
heart trap and I am going to try to trap a skunk now I know what you're thinking
that's absolutely insane why would somebody try to capture a skunk what are
you gonna do with it when you have a skunk and a half a heart trap well I
will cross that bridge when I come to it if I come to admittedly I haven't had
the greatest luck with the havahart traps before so far the only thing I've
ever caught has been Pablo you dummy
now for bait I'm gonna use a combination of some peanut butter and marshmallows
I'm going with the peanut butter and marshmallow combo because I don't want a
sort of meat that could attract the cats I'm worried they could freeze and die
out here exposed to the elements like this hey hey well let's go talk to that
I thought that was not gonna attract cats well what are you doing go away I
hope I don't catch the cat's tonight I'm gonna keep an eye out on this thing to
make sure I don't catch the cats
you're loaded and ready for skunk also set up this trail camera so I can catch
the action well don't go in there well well don't go in there you're right to
be cautious of that thing sweetheart boy I'm gonna have to check that thing
religiously this evening so the traps now set let's see what happens I'll post
something as soon as it happens until then here's a different video you can
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