They're ugly and sorta creepy. But they eat a LOT of ticks, so they get a free pass from me.

I can feel a opossum hat drawing coming!!! :)

Same problem, but skunk here.

Don't they eat turkey eggs ?

DS

I've got an Armadillo that's been terrorizing my back yard at night! Drives my Beagle nuts in the morning. His day will come!

LD

Wild turkeys eat insects and other small animals, so they are predators, in a sense, but they become the prey of other birds, reptiles or mammals. Wild turkey eggs and poult are threatened by several predator species including:

Snakes Skunks Crows and ravens Opossums Raccoons Rodents Dogs Coyotes Hawks Owls Foxes Cougars Eagles

Pick your poison. Coyotes, foxes and raccoons likely are more detrimental to turkey eggs than any of the other creatures on the list, but it is what it is. Around here you can add fishers to that list. Many of those same predators will eat some of the others as well. No safe haven out there.

I thought that you might of had a good George Jones story. ;) bvd

Possums in my hen house don't get relocated, they get Gamo'd.

Deer spotter; as my wildlife biologist friend said " everything in the woods eats turkey eggs ".

I've caught probably 5 of them in my livetrap this yr. They try to get under the porch through the only spot that I can't block access. They're so stupid they just walk right in without any bait. Then when you go to turn them loose, they won't leave the trap if they can see you. As soon as I hide behind a tree, they run off. MP

"Don't they eat turkey eggs ?" Possums eat pretty much anything they can find.

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Don't know if that possum ate turkey eggs, but he sure liked to drink liquor! MP

Dan i got some extra brandnew 5-6" spring traps ill send to ya Take care of dat possum

There seems to be an unlimited supply of those guys. Until I started putting down grub killer, they really tore up my front yard digging holes everywhere.

That thick skull can ruin a perfectly good broadhead.

They get a free pass on my place as well. The numbers of ticks they eat far out weigh any problems they have ever caused. Foul little creatures though if they bite anything.....instant infection from the bacteria in thier mouths.

BOX CALL, when I was a younger man, I had an ornery old Tom cat that slept on my enclosed porch. I'd leave the door cracked for him and he'd come and go as he pleased. I came home in the wee hours one morning after a night of debauchery and saw him lying on an old table on the porch, in what moonlight there was coming through the window. I reached out to pet him and he knocked my hand away. He was a miserable cuss, so I didn't think much of it and reached back out and petted him. He hit my hand again and growled, but it sounded funny, deeper than usual. I went in the house and got my flashlight and came back out and shined it on him. Imagine my surprise when I found out that I'd just petted a possum. He found the blanket I had on the table for the cat to lay on and moved in. Possums!

What's left of a hen turkey and her eggs after a possum found her sleeping on her nest.

Hey,,,,possums gota eat too!

; )

Ref: Possums? Give UGLY a whole new meaning! They can go and balance nature elsewhere!

I've trapped 4 or 5 out of the shed the last half of the year. When I am trapping in the fall, I tend to turn them loose as the hides aren't worth anything and I don't much care for eating them (too greasy). All the same, they tear up jack in the shed so there they make a one way trip over the hill when I catch them.

cast iron roasted opossum and candied yams,hmm

I wouldn't sweat that possum until he steals your lawnmower and drives to town for bear.

We do not have them out here, but I hunted in Virginia years ago. I was in a treestand before daybreak when I keep hearing movements behind me. Finally got light enough to see one behind a stump. Yeah, they are full of disappointment

Each opossum eats ten of thousand of insects annually, and they love ticks. They are naturally immune to rabies. Their fur makes excellent dry flies, ruffs for hoods on winter parkas and opposum underfur wool is luxury product in New Zealand, where some of the finest wool comes from.

Eat that for a month and your heart would lock up like a seized engine!

That just ain't right...

I know mountain food aint always the best but Ron, You might want to avoid that creamed possum. Like the above said, it would block up a ticker in a minute.

-Bones

Ive never heard of a possum killing an adult hen turkey but they are nest raiders for sure.Id bet something else got that hen but who knows.

After my dog passed, we have had a possum family in the wood shed every year. Ever since they moved in our neighbors and us have had zero slugs in the yard, they can stay. They also rarely if ever get rabies due to their lower body temperature and they are nomads....

Ron, Do you mean to tell us there's no pics of the Shrewhaven table graced by a big pan of baked possum swimming in its own grease, head intact, teeth bared, eyes coldly staring back at its tormentors...even in death? And I thought ya'll were supposed to men amongst men...I'll guarantee Frisky is a possum eater because the road provides what he's too inept to harvest!

I don't use them fancy sink grinders, I just toss stuff next to the porch and mr. Opossum eats it up, call 'em my little garbage disposal. Been a few times he would scratch on the door to see if I had forgot to put something out-lol. Of course I would hit the fridge and find something for the little guy to keep him coming back and doing his job. Never had to replace my sink grinder or the plumbing. I actually just put some left-over smoked turkey wings out for him on his fancy stone "plate" shaped like Texas-haha!

I used to catch possums at night when they would walk through my truck shop, they were very often covered in grease. i would take them out to the wash rack and give them a good bath. I never had one bite me yet but they would open their jaws and hiss like crazy.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To show the possum that it could be done.

I hate possums. one got under my Dad's house, climbed up some of the plumbing into one of the walls between the bathtub and walk-in closet and DIED!!!! I had to cut the wall out to get it out. my stepmom kept telling me the stink was sewer gas from toilet and I kept saying it's a dead animal. this argument went on for a month until I pulled it out of the wall.

I went out onto the dark back porch to cover the gas grill. I leaned over the grill to flip the cover on and a stinkin' possum raised up from the side shelf. We were nearly nose to nose! I thought it was the devil himself coming to get me!

Possum stories always lead to good threads on here. Remember Micah "Bunney Hunter" and the "Gotta Oposum" thread? (Sorry I can't misspell it the way he did) ;)

You'll be able to say you 'Gota Opomsum' pretty soon Dan.

Fl. DNR says that opossums are immune to snake venom and are good to keep around the house, as they will eat the snakes.

I suppose what with PETA and the PC, man-hating, progressive XX chromosome carriers with all due respect to whatever they "identify" as, that a possum fur coat isn't the fashion statement that it once was. But it would still be very warm if their azz was freezing...and I'd bet they'd put it on if nobody was looking.

Looks like a freinds x wife

Had one as a pet back when I was a kid. My brothers and I thought it would be funny to get "Gus" drunk so we proceeded to feed him green apples and like the cows he sure did get inebriated. He tried to climb a tree and fell on his head and that was when dad showed up. He didn't think it was so funny and he made us turn the possum loose after it sobered up.Oh well!!!

Regards, Grouse

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