Posted by Jerry/MT on March 07, 2008 at 19:24:52 from (206.183.116.129):
In Reply to: OT: voles posted by sodly on March 07, 2008 at 16:23:05:
We just finished a run of vole damage last year.Voles are sexually mature at 8 weeks I believe and then have a litter of 4-6 every 6 weeks. The populations build up and then some disease hits them and they have a big die off.
In the mean time, with huge populations, the last couple of years of the cycle they do a lot of damage. I had 12 ft diameter spots in my pasture that looked like they were disked up,lost fruit trees,lawn all torn up and full of holes wife"s flower beds damaged, garden damaged,etc. Every fence post had owl pellets or whitewash from hawks who were eating them as fast as they could. Seagulls were among the most voracious vole eaters. They"d eat til they couldn"t fly! And that didn"t make a dent in the population.
I made bait stations out of "T" PVC fittings and 1-1/2 PVC pipe and got a private pesticide applicators license so I could buy poisoned oats which T placed in the feeders and down the holes in the lawn. It knocked them back around the house and minimized the damage but they suddenly disappearaed in Spring and they don"t cause much dmage at all now. Its pretty hard to get rid of them with their population dynamics but you can control them in local areas with poison oats. Do a web search under "voles" and you can get some info on the critters and the plans for the bait stations. Good Luck!
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