They tend to be cyclical. Population up, then down.

They are in holes it's to cold for them......

.....to hell I hope, lol! They wreak havoc on all the yards in my neighborhood. I've killed too many to count. I've always wondered what preys on them besides man.

we used to have (1970s) an armadillo and rattlesnake round up each spring in my hometown ... there were prizes for the biggest, the smallest and the most caught on both armadillo and rattlesnake ... I thought I had it won with armadillo one year with about 30 when some guy showed up with 40-50. Had to bring them in live, they would clean the armadillos and snakes (after milking them) and then they had a deep fryer that they were frying them up.

You're a better man than me, Don. They rip up my grass and create mudholes after a rain. Haven't had that problem lately though.

I snuck up on one in Florida and grabbed it by the tail. My son got a kick out of it.

We had a resident Amadillo at the compound at the lease for the last two or so years. We kept him around because we had heard they eat the rattlers, which we had never seen (snakes) in the compound...until this year when I was the lucky one to walk within a foot of one. Now I guess the guys have adopted either/both a raccoon or little fox (and some kind of barn cat that I haven't seen yet) around the compound. I'm gonna start calling it the Dr Doolittle lease from now on...

Grab near the base and lift up fast! Those claws are something. We caught one and gave him a cattle earmark one day, but never knowingly saw him again.

I see quite a few in Bandera County.

I sneak up on them and take pictures. I think they are neat animals.

Ever scared one and seen it jump?

saw 6 today first i have seen in a while

They are jumpers for sure.
We were running snares along the HF one day and the wife was digging around in the grass looking for a pulled out snare.
We had snared an armadillo and he had hunkered down behind a patch of grass. He suddenly jumped up with the snare around his middle, and started hopping around (and hissing) on the end of the cable, my wife fell over backwards trying to get away. I 'bout hurt myself laughing.
After we had a good laugh, she said, "thank God that wasn't a skunk."

I used to see 4 or 5 a day on my place South of Bowie. These days, it is unusual to see one per year.

I got mad at them back in August. I was sick of them digging holes under the fence, it makes for a starting hole for pigs or coyotes. I must have trapped 20 of them before the hole making stopped.

I read once that's why they seldom get missed when you run over them. Even though the wheels might miss them, their instinct to jump when scared causes them to get knocked in the head.

I'm right there with you............

My grandfather had flat feet, so they didn't ship him overseas during WWI. He was in the Quartermaster Corp. and bought and sold horses for the Army.

The ONLY time I ever saw him run was when we were driving around, looking at the place by Luckenbach that my dad had just bought. My grandfather jumped out of the vehicle, ran and caught an armadillo, and smashed it against a tree.

Horsemen hate them. The neighbor to us up there (another oldtimer) was obsessed with killing them too.

'Don't think they're going extinct. 'Thought I heard or read a TPWD rep say to kill every armadillo, raccoon, and skunk you see, if you want to see more quail.

Interesting. Do you know why? I’ve never heard that.

I've always assumed that it's because horses sometimes miss seeing their holes and break their legs in them.

We have some armadillo dens the size of badger dens. Some look like a mini volcanoes.
They are a problem for horses and cows.

Used to see a lot of them growing up and hunting them.
I see a lot fewer now days, probably since there are a lot more roads and that keeps the populations down.
They can't look both ways before they cross a road.

Interesting question because I had not really paid attention and yesterday I saw 3 in less than 5 mins and I thought whow I have not seen any lately.

We used to race them at the Top Rail over sort of near the Winchester Shooting range back in the 7o's. I guess they call it Elm Fork shooting sports or something like that now. Drank a lot of Lonestars at the Rail back in those days.
Fun times and fun girls!

We nicknamed one of our blinds "Dilly, Dilly" every sit deer or no deer the armadillos were there. Plus the guy that named it likes Bud Light. I bet we saw 25 a day in Mills county, I am trying to figure out the negatives to having them on the range.

This past couple of weeks it seems they have come out in force. I am seeing atleast 4-5 daily all over ranch

Weve got plenty in Mills county. PM your address and I'll mail you all I can catch