I am curious as to what critter is doing this.

**DockShootinJack** · 03-23-2022, 09:56 AM

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This log is about 18 to 20 inches across. The spot torn open is 10 to 12 feet long. There are several more just like it on that hillside. The terrain is steep enough you crawl up instead of walk. I have not noticed it being torn open until yesterday. Whatever it is I guess are after the grubs. There have been bears in the area in the recent past. I will have to keep an eye on it. It is about 30 yards from the chicken coop. I haven't seen anything disturbed around it yet.

**funfishers** · 03-23-2022, 01:32 PM

Any water nearby?

**DockShootinJack** · 03-23-2022, 01:35 PM

Wet weather spring between it and where I took the photo

**Kevind62** · 03-23-2022, 01:37 PM

Could be possum or armadillo too. They'll be looking for grubs, carpenter ants, or termites in dead logs such as this.

**DockShootinJack** · 03-23-2022, 01:43 PM

I considered that. 10 foot of it got ripped open overnight. Very few armadillos up this way. I keep the skunks thinned out when they start messing with the chickens

**Clint** · 03-24-2022, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

<snip>Very few armadillos up this way.<snip>

North of you in the LBL is lousy with armadillos. I'm on the west side of Kentucky Lake and we have them dead on the side of the road in Benton KY. I've only seen one alive, and that was in the LBL. Numerous carcasses on the road side about this time of year.

**DockShootinJack** · 03-24-2022, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by Clint

North of you in the LBL is lousy with armadillos. I'm on the west side of Kentucky Lake and we have them dead on the side of the road in Benton KY. I've only seen one alive, and that was in the LBL. Numerous carcasses on the road side about this time of year.

I grew up in South Alabama. As kids we would put beer cans or bottles in the front paws of the dead ones on the side of the road. Always good for a laugh. I have seen one dead on the side of the road here. Haven't seen any of their telltale diggings in the yard or field

**6poundtest** · 03-23-2022, 06:16 PM

Do you have any porcupines in the area? They can be demons on tree bark, both standing and fallen.

**DockShootinJack** · 03-23-2022, 06:19 PM

Never seen any. I may have to stick a game camera out there to see what is coming around

**DrNip** · 03-23-2022, 08:05 PM

Armadillos. They can tear an area up looking for grubs.

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