Our Baby Beaver & A Crazy Week!

I think the last couple of weeks could go down as the craziest in a long time for us! What a busy escapade it was! During our hikes down to the ravine we came across a bear eating all these adorable baby beavers, and we were able to save the last baby.

Meet our latest addition(temporarily) peanut! Hes about a week old.

It appears EVERYONE was getting attached to him. We called a variety of shelters but couldn't get any help until after the long weekend. So in the meantime there was some serious prepping to do!

We needed to set him up a play space out side & inside as baby beavers known as "kits" require alot of handling,grooming, and nursing for the first few months.

The poor darling.... in the middle of this my latest birds had all arrived & we were trying to make room for 22 new heritage turkeys, and 13 Sussex hens and 3 Sussex roosters in brooders. They all arrived safe & sound in this cute little shipping box.

These are some crazy curious turkeys!

The sweetest girls inspecting their new home, its sure better than the tiny exploding box of poultry!

We went back to the ravine to see if we could find another baby beaver that might have escaped and walked up and down for quite some time but were out of luck.

We found the baby tracks but no more babies in sight.

Worked on a homemade trellis for my chicken coop, it turned out pretty cute.

On Tuesday after the long weekend someone finally returned our called back about Peanut

and we had to send him away to a wonderful wild animal shelter a few hours away called

 "Northern Lights animal shelter". They were so great to take him in ,as its a huge commitment because they rehab them for 3 years before being released back into nature.

I know this is a fuzzy picture but I had to share it ,as Peanuts finally feeding before we had to send him away. We knew it was best but we had cared for him for  4 days and woke to do feedings every 3 hours, it was quite a job. But totally worth it :)

Hope you had a great weekend!

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Trapper Tales

Well I have been a busy little beaver! So busy in fact that Ive neglected my blog for awhile, so I'm hoping to do some catch up!  This past weekend my husband & I got our BC Trappers licenses, in a 3 day course.  Anyone who knows where I live, knows about all our beavers in our creek. Sometimes the populations get so large that culverts are plugged and our land as well as all the neighbours land floods to where you cant get home from work & the roads close!  I wanted to do something that would help, and as avid hunters we love animals, so we thought becoming trappers would be a fun hobby.  All respect to the fur bearers, every part is used and nothing goes to waste!  We also have a huge wolf population that is cleaning northern BC out of most of our deer & moose populations, and so the government has asked for help to reduce some wolf numbers.  Since they are so adaptable & hearty, we are risking loosing some wonderful animals to endangered list soon if this continues.

 Here I am in my class learning to nail beaver pelt to a drying size board.

Our instructor is great, and here he is teaching us about different types of trap settings.

Above he is prepping  a water beaver set.

Here he is teaching us a urine post set for coyotes.

Below are 2 giant nearly 60 pound beavers trapped

in our class. There are known to be more than 100 in just a few miles, so this

didn't really make a population dent in any sort.

I don't think you can see in the above picture where we learned to make wolf snares.

This is showing how to set a lynx trap

It was a great & educational weekend!

Trapping & trap lines have so much history, its interesting to learn all about how our ancestors lived off the land , and hunted & trapped.  If your interested in trapping, there are some great books out there , but nothing beats live demos and fresh air!!

great link on fur:

http://www.furisgreen.com/wildlifemanagement.aspx



Sad day

Last night I found out one of the bunnies in the last litter has lost use of his entire back end, its so sad ....Ive been up all night pinning the momma down to let it feed, as the little guy cant get to the nipple on his own and hes dehydrated & starving. I was devastated & hopeless, but was determinec to set my alarm for night feedings.. Then I found this...

 

Oh my goodness,how sweet! There is hope for this little life!