Benjamin caught another beaver in one of his traps today!
We drove to the house of a very experienced who helped Benjamin skin the beaver without flawing the pelt.
After saying goodbye we saw about 8 deer along the sides of the driveway and they were only about 20 feet away. By the time we had the camera out we only took this one picture before they had run away.
When Ben checked his trap this morning he found to his delight that he had caught a beaver!
His beaver trap is very powerful and it had broken the beaver’s back, so he died instantaneously and painlessly.
Beavers can be very destructive to farm land because each year their dams flood hundreds of acres of crops.
A friend/neighbor who is also a VERY experienced trapper and hunter showed Benjamin how to skin the beaver so that he could keep the fur. Our friend was very helpful and did a great job of explaining the process to Ben and to the rest of us who were watching. Later in March Benjamin will send his beaver skin in a package with a couple of other trapper’s skins to a tanning facility where they’ll be properly tanned and sent back.
