Nutria rats in my pond, now what?

[savin yours]

Yep, rats! One down
I hit another one in the water. Do they sink when killed in the water?


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[Jspradley]

So what issues do the rats present? Beaver are obvious with their construction issues.


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They eat plant roots along the bank and cause erosion problems.

I hear nutria is delicious!

[Jaybo31]

Yep, rats! One down
I hit another one in the water. Do they sink when killed in the water?


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Some yes. They'll float up in a day or so if its warm. When its cold may take a little longer

[Quackerbox]

Call some coonarses

this is the correct answer.

Rats gone and youll get a jambalaya

[DarrellS]

Ive killed 67 out of our ponds in the last two years. Start killing them now before it gets out of hand

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[SneakyPhil]

Get yourself a mink!

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4mdjIMmhH8"]UNDERGROUND Mink vs Muskrat Footage! - YouTube[/ame]

[dustoffer]

Sounds like a night-time pigrat hunt with the thermal to me---

[Cajun Blake]

Just spotted 6 large beaver looking creatures in my pond.

Make a roux baw … nutria are herbivores and the meat is very lean and tastes like rabbit.
If you saw 6, you probably have triple that number

So what issues do the rats present? Beaver are obvious with their construction issues.

single most influencing factor for LA coastal and marsh erosion. Brought to LA in the 1800's my Edmund McIlhenney (Tabasco family) to raise for the fur trade. 1920's depression hit and fur trade went belly up. Nutria reproduce like pigs and it's near impossible to kill them all. LA has a $6 bounty per nutria killed. The nutria problem in South LA is comparable to the pig problem in TX. They eat the marsh vegetation and ecologists can't replace it fast enough due to the difficulty of accessing the marsh


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TU_IZzxNyQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TU_IZzxNyQ[/ame]

[savin yours]

Night hunting is the way unless you are a good trapper.

Night hunting isn’t a problem.


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[savin yours]

Make a roux baw … nutria are herbivores and the meat is very lean and tastes like rabbit.

If you saw 6, you probably have triple that number







single most influencing factor for LA coastal and marsh erosion. Brought to LA in the 1800's my Edmund McIlhenney (Tabasco family) to raise for the fur trade. 1920's depression hit and fur trade went belly up. Nutria reproduce like pigs and it's near impossible to kill them all. LA has a $6 bounty per nutria killed. The nutria problem in South LA is comparable to the pig problem in TX. They eat the marsh vegetation and ecologists can't replace it fast enough due to the difficulty of accessing the marsh





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TU_IZzxNyQ

Somehow I knew you’d chime in. Thanks Blake! I know you have a shaker, perfect for these things right?


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[Cajun Blake]

in 2017, nutria were responsible for eating/destroying 80,000 acres of marsh
licensed hunters ($5 license) brought in 350,000 tails and barely put a dent in the population


here's a Bizzarre Foods episode where Andrew Zimmern met Black Ice's uncle down in Morgan City … and cooked a nutria gumbo. BI posts pics each alligator season with his 88 yr old ?? uncle who is a trapper and pretty much lives off the land.


https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/...d-oyster-gumbo


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pretty much looks like a rabbit







nutria sauce piquant served over cathead biscuits

[savin yours]

in 2017, nutria were responsible for eating/destroying 80,000 acres of marsh
licensed hunters ($5 license) brought in 350,000 tails and barely put a dent in the population


here's a Bizzarre Foods episode where Andrew Zimmern met Black Ice's uncle down in Morgan City … and cooked a nutria gumbo. BI posts pics each alligator season with his 88 yr old ?? uncle who is a trapper and pretty much lives off the land.

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/bizarre-foods/articles/nutria-andouille-and-oyster-gumbo

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pretty much looks like a rabbit







nutria sauce piquant served over cathead biscuits

Looks delicious!!


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[tps7742]

They will eat you fish and just mess your pond environment up in general. Now isn’t the time to be a conservationists in relation to these rats. Just my opinion.

[kurt68]

They are water rats, and eat the bark off the trees next to the water. The Woodlands Wharf used to have a bunch in the ponds there, when I took my little girls to feed the ducks they attacked them. Swarms of them, I football kicked a few out in the water before we got away. They were very aggressive.

[WItoTX]

As others said, kill them now. They used to be a HUGE problem in Chesapeake Bay, but over the last 10 years or so they have effectively reduced the population to almost nothing.