cost for beaver removal?

[red x]

Just wondering if it is normal for trapper to ask you for $$$ for removal of the beavers?

Thank you!

[fishermccann]

Yes , or permission to trap your property when the pelts are prime and not just for nuisance removal. If the pelts are not taken during the prime season they are really not worth enough money, for all the work to prepare them.

[patvetzal]

He will probably spend time looking at your situation, time setting his traps, time retrieving them and disposing of the carcass, either at auction or elsewhere. Might get $5 for the pelt. Be different if it was on his line and he could do it more efficiently...

[red x]

I see... thank you, I assumed it would of been a cost of few case of 24 beer, not a few largest whiskey bottlex2 (that is 300$).

edit: no more beaver issue, btw.

[Bushmoose]

I guess some people have to ask themselves the question, "what's it going to cost if they aren't removed?" Flooded fields, bush etc. can ruin a piece of property pretty quick.
A neighbour of mine who's wife is anti hunting of any kind had to have a long talk with her after the MTO and township warned them that if the road adjoining their land was washed out or flooded, they would be liable? It seems she was quite happy to have the beavers around until she looked at the potential cost of not removing them.

[mooboy76]

I guess some people have to ask themselves the question, "what's it going to cost if they aren't removed?" Flooded fields, bush etc. can ruin a piece of property pretty quick.
A neighbour of mine who's wife is anti hunting of any kind had to have a long talk with her after the MTO and township warned them that if the road adjoining their land was washed out or flooded, they would be liable? It seems she was quite happy to have the beavers around until she looked at the potential cost of not removing them.

I'm considering those very options right now. By-law change for my municipality. Landowners are now responsible for any damage caused by beavers on their property. Just so happens I've got some river beavers that have decided to settle in. They even felled a 15" diameter poplar over the past two months. Busy, as they say. I think I found the lodge, and one was eyeballing my wife early in the summer when she went for a shoreline inspection near the same spot. I'll see if I can find the winter's food stores.

[red x]

Well it is nice not worrying about the dammed up creek every morning. Good to know about the price of the beaver fur. The issue has been taken care of and will call 2nd time if the broken dam is fixed...

[dutchhunter]

I have charged as much as 300$ to remove then .and some I do for permission to hunt and trap the land.A lot depends on how far away it is and how much work is involved. ..Gas and time never come free ad I have kids that eat every day. Lol Dutch

[Fenelon]

I do $80 per beaver, up to a max. of $240. Anything above 3 animals is a bonus for the landowner. I try to convince the landowner to let me take them when the pelts will be prime, if at all possible. Sadly, castoreum fetches more than the pelt these days. Like Dutch said, it adds up when you're driving 20km each way, probably do three checks before pulling out if it's a busy spot, etc. Anything less than this and I'm losing money.

[kickingfrog]

That's not bad. Sometimes it costs half of everything you own.