BARNYARD TRAPPING TRICKS

Sooner or later, you’ll be faced with it—the choice to trap when live-stock are present, or to pull out and miss an important opportunity. No matter whether you’re trying to solve a live-stock depredation event (and livestock are always present), or you’re just trying to collect fur while the rancher unexpectedly moves cattle on top of you, keeping traps working and catching furbearers is much more difficult when setting in the same pastures.

Let’s recognize that not all livestock are the same. Cattle can be a problem when they stomp out your set, but sheep and goats can be held in a coyote trap. And for some reason, goats almost always seem to find your