Gophers "hunting"

[Briant]

I've had a bad run in with the gophers and my garden the last couple weeks. I went and bought all new traps and I've set them out this evening. Now I wonder if any of you know of anything to do with dead gophers? Of course I wouldn't dare eat them but I hate killing something and not having anything to do with it. Does anything besides coyotes eat them?

 

[dinosaur]

Chop them up and compost them with leaves and horse manure. Just make sure the mix is in a closed container. It won't smell bad but opposum will dig them up.

 

[Briant]

Well that is usually what I do with the rats. Just toss them in the compost bin I have out by the corral so I suppose I could do that with the gophers too. Good idea. They aren't much bigger than the rats I've been catching so shouldn't be any different and the opposums can't get in my bin.

 

[GROUNDpounder]

Kill'um, put them in a pile of dirt, use it to fertilize your garden = profit.!