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    I had to get a bit personal with a nest in a wall behind thick ivy . I was fully armoured-up but it didn't stop the jaspers taking their anger out on my equipment. Three of them found themselves in trouble when they couldn't release their stings from the rubber bulb of my hand puffer
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    You can get monitoring blocks for use in rat boxes . You check them regularly and once they show signs of gnawing they are replaced with poison blocks. It saves having poison baits laying about unnecessarily or being wasted by being eaten by slugs etc They appear to be made of flavoured rubber or something similar . A little chunk cut off the corner makes a long lasting and reusable snap trap bait. I've never tried it on a rat trap but it works well for mice. Or wrap the bait in little package of foil?
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    The second one does look very useable . It will definitely have a trial.
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    My lovely daughter presented me with a couple of traps today.She saw them on some budget shopping site for a couple of quid each and added them to her order. Well one is clearly designed for something a bit beefier than the use against mice it was advertised for. It also looks somewhat illegal for anything else. More like a mini amputation device. In deference to my fingers l worked out that the safest way to set it was to stand on it! A neat talking point though The other is a rather powerful rat sized variation on the usual break-back design but without a wooden or metal bas
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    As far as l'm aware it has " Low mammalian toxicity" and is cleared from the body quite quickly. It's not good news at all for anything cold blooded. It has a residual effect in clean situations but exposure to damp and dirt renders it inert after a while . Think of it as decent quality old fashioned ant powder like the stuff your Mum or Gran could buy off the shelf in Co op forty years ago. In fact they probably really were buying Ficam ! It's mosly chalk dust with a weeny bit of active ingredient. That doesn't mean you should sniff it or lick it with impunity. Wear gloves ,avoid
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    Hmm, if a drone can shoot flames it could certainly squirt a blast of insecticide . Less damaging to the house! The blades of the drone were covered in bits of wasp when it came down . Don't know if they actively attacked it or just fell foul of the scything effect as it hovered over the nest.
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    Really tall house, no firm ground for the ladder, couldn't get to the nest from the loft and the access hole was out of sight behind the gutter. The customer was itching for an excuse to put his camera equipped drone to good use! ?
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    Pigs

    comanche replied to BobDown's topic in General Talk

    I can't remember the slaughter and butchering costs as l just looked after the daily care of the pigs while the farmer friend who l shared them with dealt with the finance side . I had great sources of sackfuls of free fruit and fruit and veg for several years. That dried up and we had to use more commercial food which affected the cost and taste of meat from our last lot of pigs. It pretty much negated the aim of quality home produced food. And l think any small scale livestock keeping is more about the ethics and satisfaction of getting decent food from decently raised an
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    Round here l expect a few worthwhile calls in the first week of June but it was a worryingly slow start this year. The nests seemed couple of weeks later than usual . They've made up for the slow start though. As you noted DIDO multiples are common. In fact single nests are a minority . One lady had eight nests in a tiny bungalow all at the same time. I've dragged the Duststik out for getting through the low nests quicker. The last week has been 12 to 14 hour days on them . I don't know if l'm alone but new tub of Ficam has given real problems with blockages . Done the usual st
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    Looks nothing like a lion . Tail's only about a foot long for a start!
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    Coz when they get on that platform together they churn out pages of boring cock measuring drivel that turns interesting threads into shit baths. Just saying ?
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    The original Araldite that took 24 hours to set gave a far stronger bond than the 5 minute stuff you get now. Whatever claims those knock off epoxies claim on the carton have to be taken with a grain of salt . Give it time . I have had some Poundland stuff that didn't set and a mate's wife who was a chemist told me why . It was a technical answer l've forgotten but basically it was probably old. Apart from that l've always been happy to use it .
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    Yes, we had a puma rumoured to be on the loose in our area back in the 70s. On the balence of probability the reported sightings may well have been true for various reasons . Who really knows what is ,has been and may in the future be out there? At the moment a sensible person can only go on probabilities. The naysayers to a breeding population of big cats tend to err on the side of balance and conservatism in their opinions rather than rabid opposition(maybe FD excluded). Whereas on the opposing side there seems to be a cadre of folk on a crusade to persuade us that
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    Well that shows how little this Rick chap knows. Pumas do on occasion actively hunt and kill humans as has been shown several times in America. Two incidents coming to mind are the puma that had lain in wait to ambush a high school athletic as he circled a playing field and wasn't at all keen to relinquish its kill when faced by armed police. Another was the killing of a lad in Banff. A mate was ice climbing in the area at the time and though the official line was that the chap was "mistaken for a deer" - yeh like pumas are short sighted- the local consensus was that he was simpl
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    We'll never know. But there were rumours that contractors engaged in the clean up after last year's Chelsea Flower Show found the remains of Alan Tichmarsh stashed in a tree . However this picture taken in Sussex proves beyond doubt that gardeners form the diet of big cats in the UK (OK,being pedantic pumas aren't technically Big Cats even though they are quite big). Note the way flesh has been stripped from the bones by the cat's rasping tongue . There can be no doubt on the matter now . Though the cover-up conspiracy stretches far beyond the Government as even the Daily
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    Probably all that was left of the gardener the leopard had just eaten. Though his death will've been hushed up by the Government of course.
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    First thing anyone wanting to prove they had a leopard lying at their feet would do is make sure the photograph showed the head ,not some ambiguous body shot from a bad angle.
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    That's a pretty poor picture of something so " special ". And why is it holding secateurs? In fact it's head looks a bit conveniently blurred and dare l suggest photo-repaired.
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    On farm kill

    comanche replied to DIDO.1's topic in General Talk

    As far as l'm aware if the animal has been rendered unconscious ,in other words "stunned", it is still halal as long as the heart is pumping blood when the throat is cut . Slaughter without stunning is simply a tradition that hasn't evolved to encompass the availability of modern stunning techniques. Interestingly, to be accepted as halal the animal must not be subjected to fear or rough handling handling before slaughter. See BGD's post above ref dogs and deer.....????
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    As Socks says ,there are still a couple of weeks to go. Towards the end the Jill will start to take-on a sort of light-bulb shape and her hair may become sleek looking.
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    Ok it floats.Next insert a test passenger. The dog was a bit suspicious when l offered him the honour of the maiden voyage. I think he'd heard about the fate of Laika ,the first dog in space. My turn. Sorry about the bad picture angles. I was trying to aim the camera , set the timer and control the canoe at the same time. Looking at them it was a good job l had put clean underpants on !?
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    Garden Leave? Do they mean "Uphill Gardening?"
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    Thanks . Now to see if it floats. If it does sink I'll turn it upside down , hang it from the ceiling and claim l always intended it to be a very big lampshade .
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