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Welcome to the THL........Hope you had a good day on Tuesday and picked up a few useful tips. ;) Rolfe.
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Last year the farm I control the rabbits on replaced an old fence line that I had trapped hundreds of rabbits on. At the time I thought "thats buggered it" but now 12 months on the rabbits are starting to use it again....albeit in far lesser numbers, due in part to us being hit by mxy again. The pictures show the fence as it was newly fitted and how it is today......back to it's original grassed over state. The runs are starting to appear through the fence again and I should soon be able to harvest reasonable numbers of rabbits once more. In one of the pictures, (to those with a discerning eye
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Ran the terrier through a couple of times.......(she'd find a mouse in a corn barn).......and no greys to be found, i am pretty sure she has them somewhere in the bank that surrounds the greenkeepers shed as it is full of rabbit buries also. I don't like perimeter baiting as a rule........but may have too for a short while to clear up the remaining colony. Rolfe.
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It had been reported that a Rat was causing havoc in the Green Keepers shed at the golf club. Bags of valuable grass seed had been ripped open and the contents strewn about and contaminated. Try as i may, i could not locate the entry point to the very large metal-clad shed that the Rat was using. It was impossible to walk around the outside of the building due to the dense bramble undergrowth, until last week that is, when contractors were called in to lay a (fire escape) path around the perimeter of the shed. With access now available i soon found the entry point which was quickly sealed off
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The latest amendment to the Spring Traps Approval Order 1995 (England) came into force on 1st October 2009. This order is a variation in relation to England only. The Order adds four types of spring traps to those approved for use in England. 1. The Nooski mouse trap. 2. The Skinns Superior Squirrel Trap. 3. The WCS Collarum. 4. The WCS Tube Trap. It also adds to the target species against which two of the traps previously approved (for use in England) may be used. The DOC 200 trap may now be used for Mink. The DOC 250 trap may now be used for Mink and Rabbits. Rolfe
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Phil has been breeding this and other crosses for a few years now and i have one of his breeding, and he is a brilliant rabbitting dog excellent around the ferrets and nets. I know Phil very well but like all breeders of dogs you get good bad and indifferent in any litter of pups....so you pays your money and takes your choice as they say. That said, he does consistantly produce some cracking litters of pups though. Rolfe.
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Once again a quite interesting thread has been turned into a slanging match between members. :wallbash: Certain members think they can just disrupt threads and get away with it........well not in this section they won't....they will be shown the door in no uncertain terms...........Sorry to the genuine guys but .....THREAD LOCKED. Rolfe.
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Mink trapping need some help!!
Rolfe replied to matthewpitcher's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
No mate, i have seen strange droppings a bit like a ferrets but stingy like grass in dog crap but all black. A good way (although not very pleasant) to check what the droppngs are is to smell them. Mink droppings (scats) are usually very ferret like and twisted and stink to high heaven.......they can be any colour depending what they have been feeding on.......often containing rabbit hairs if that is what they have been eating. Otter droppings (spraints) often contain fish scales and are a bit bigger than those of a mink.......and are often deposited on a prominent feature such as a roc -
Yes they are now a common sight at most retail food outlets........free food on tap 24/7 they have no need to forage. I often wonder how the Pest controllers who have the contracts for such sites, manage to get the rats to eat the rodenticide from the bait stations due to the abundance of tastier offerings. ;)
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The stop on a snare prevents the noose from fully closing........and the DEFRA code of practice deems the snare as a Holding device rather that a Killing device........make of that what you will. If the stop prevented the noose from opening it would be deemed a self-locking snare which IS illegal. Please don't consider setting snares for foxes unless you are sure you know what you are doing (not suggesting that you don't) and that you have the means of a humane dispatch method. Rolfe.
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Happy Birthday.........Have a great day Mal........Enjoy :drink:
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I Was at the film premiere of this hour long DVD at Kings Lynn today. For anyone with an interest in old rural Norfolk it is an interesting film. It looks at various topics in short snippets from the changes in farming to things like Wildfowlers and duck decoys (the netted catching ponds), the canning factories, strawberry picking, through to the Fen skaters, farriers, thatchers and even the peat diggers. There is also a short poaching sequence (Starring yours truly.......Old Rolfe and his faithful lurcher). Well worth getting a loved one to buy you a copy for Christmas. available from www.
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I was called in to sort out a rat that had taken up residence in a utility room and garage area......the rat had got in through an open door and as yet has not braved the escape back out again.......due to the owners dogs. Having been feeding on dried dog food for a few days it was obviously desperate for a drink. It proceeded to chew a hole in the back of the clients fridge to drink from the condensation that runs down the back of the fridge and into the drainage channel. This is a first for me..........and i thought i had seen it all. :whistling:
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So nice to see a long net set how it should be set.......mine are seldom set above 18inches high and often lower than that so the myth that you need 3-4 ft setting poles is nonsense. Like you i have been rabbting day and night for many many years using longnets and i have NEVER seen a rabbit jump one yet......good post. Rolfe.
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exellent work there mate was it expensive to have done cheers? From memory i think it was about £200 to have done but he was a top taxidermist apparently. Rolfe.
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Steve.......i have had a few of these over the years.......3 from the same garden in a week once......obviously the same family. Here's a couple of before and after the taxidermist shots.
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Yes Fred lived out the last few years of his life in Bungay (Nethergate St) and in the book Charlotte speaks to some elderly people from Bungay who actually knew and met Fred....it would appear his reputation lived on in many peoples recollections long after his tragic death in 1938. Rolfe.
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Unfortunately it was an Invitation Only function (by the publishers) OTC, otherwise i would have put a post up as i know a lot of people are interested in the original classic........So if anyone hasn't read the book....take OTC up on his offer.
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Strange folks them that are born of an east wind........ as they say. Was in Bungay last night for the book launch.
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Yes was in Bungay last night for the book launch.......lovely old town. Also i have walked the same highways and byways around Pentney and Narborough that old Fred walked and also the Old Lodge he lived in when he was a Keeper.....lovely part of the country Norfolk and Suffolk.
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It would make a brilliant Christmas pressie......but it would be an advantage to have read the original classic otherwise it might take some following of Rolfe's family history, that said the book contains a wealth of information on the sqalid times and hardships endured by the agricultural labourers in the late 1800's and the dreaded "Workhouse" etc.
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Yes it was written as he spoke spelling mistakes and all........brilliant book for anyone interested in rural life in and around Norfolk in the late 1800's.
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For Anyone interested in the original poaching classic "I Walked by Night" by Lilias Rider Haggard this new book will be of great interest..........have a look in the Book Review section for a more comprehensive report.....Rolfe.
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For anyone who has read the highly evocative and poaching book classic " I Walked By Night" by Lilias Rider Haggard and first published in 1935.....This new book will be of great interest. Charlotte Paton has just published a brand new book on that old rogue Frederick Rolfe called "The King of the Norfolk Poachers" (His Life and Times). I first met Charlotte about six years ago now when I heard she was researching into the mystery man who was never named in the original "I Walked by Night". It was also a passion of mine to find out more about the mysterious character portrayed in the book( He
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Copper wire is far to soft and breaks far to easily to be any good for snaring......you should be using good quality BRASS wire to do the job properly (not the cheap picture framing stuff either) Rolfe.