Mr Black asked:
Hi. I operate a school in a rural area (surrounded by farms). Our soccer field is infested with gophers and gopher holes. What is the best long-term way to drive gophers off of our property?
Hi. I operate a school in a rural area (surrounded by farms). Our soccer field is infested with gophers and gopher holes. What is the best long-term way to drive gophers off of our property?
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Take away their bloody goph clubs.
black pepper repels gophers
We’ll on the farm we always used a .22 or a 12 gauge. BUT since its on a school can’t exactly do that. There are several different methods you can use:
Dig into the main burrow and stick a garden hose in turn the water on and flood the burrows. When they pop out you can capture them or release them somewhere else or smack them in the head and rid yourself of them.
There is a product called shake-away. Its basically Fox Urine Powder. It tells the gophers that a fox has marked the territory and that they are in danger. Very Effective. Each 20 oz bottle covers up to 600 feet in a straight line. Oh make sure you get the “Small Critter Powder”
Hope that helps ya
Check this site. It seems that many people have the same problem, with a lot of solutions.
We have a pull behind, well I don’t know what it is called exactly but you lower it and down it goes into the hole and drops down poison. It goes down a ways, doesn’t tear up the ground much either, because we use it on our alfalpha ground. Good luck!
Go to Sams Club or Cosco and buy one of those big tubs of bubble gum ( 10 lbs.) cut each piece in half and scatter a few next to each burrow. This is non-toxic to humans of course, but is death on little gophers. They eat it then can’t pass it or something. That is used by many ranchers in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado and Wyoming where poisoning has been banned.
There are different methods allowed in each county or state. Most of t he good poisons are gone of the market. Any system is probably done out of soccer season. There are traps. one of the best may be they drop gas down the hole thaat is heavier than air and it smothers them. This is called a gophinator. We shoot some but you may not be able to do that.
Wrigley’s spearmint gum works for moles. Maybe gophers too. Just stick 1/2 a stick in each hole.
ive heard of the chewing gum method before. its supposed to do something to their stomach and kill them. ive never tried it so i dont know if it works. id give it a shot though, its cheap, no fire arms on school property, no risk of lawsuits for applying to much poison and making somebody sick.
here is a recipe i find quit effective. 1 box of BBS, 1 daisy red rider, and one 12-13 year old. shake well and apply when necessary. this recipe is very effective and will last a long tome too. or you could drown them by “accidentally” over watering them.
Take pride, It’s a DASY
Take a large wooden Mallet and try to hit them on the head.
…If your school is experiencing cut-backs, you can always use the gophers as soccer balls.