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  1. comanche
    In my experience it'll be the hens that start clucking out a warning if a fox is about. Not impossible or unheard of for a cockerel to have bash at a fox but hardly a reliable method of defence. Fox'll be back when it's ready..... Am l right that Gold Tops are sex linked hybrids ? So basically only exist in hen form( the baby boys probably being bopped off and sold as pet food). As such each GT hen is a final product . Mating it with any cock will just produce mongrel chicks. Perfectly fine chickens but possibly without the defined qualities of selectively produced com
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    I've never really understood the thinking behind "bug hotels". My problem has nothing to do with the admirable concept of providing insect habitat. It's the name. Surely if fish live in a fishery and worms in a wormery; a bug hotel should really be called a..... Maybe it's a marketing thing?
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    I think they probably are related. Corgis are supposed to be derived to shipperkes( l just know l've spelt that wrong) ,which are related to Northern dog breeds. Little sods for heel nipping which l guess comes for them being bred as cattle and watch-dogs. When l was growing up a neighbour had a corgi x alsation. That must've involved some amusing contorions in the mating department! Thinking about it; back in those days just about every other dog on the streets seemed to be an alsation crossed with something like a collie or lab... . And they all came with a serious health wa
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    Even if putting things (like creosote or marshmallows?) down the burrows did work the mole will probably just dig new tunnels. Then you'll have twice the mess and an even more inviting infrastructure of burrows under your lawn ready for generations of moles to utilise. As said ; persevere with learning how the traps work . You have the advantage of being on the spot and not having to worry about commercial performance pressure . You'll be well pleased if you do manage to get one yourself. Or get a mole- catcher in?
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    My daughter has just been declared fit to go back to light work after having her prolapsed disc operated on a few weeks ago. Hopefully that's put paid to the three years of agony she's suffered. Any of em in moderation should help but l would avoid taking too much of anything with codeine in it. It can cause constipation. Bad back+ constipation = double unhappiness. Hope you get right soon?
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    I've got a bread knife.
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    I think it's your cider eyes ; either it's slipped or it's her kneecap. Though l believe the book does feature both Dick and Fanny. In fact the cover seems to show Dick touching Silky's Hole. We were force fed Edid Blyton books. I hated them!
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    And don't forget; every time you pick her up she probably thinks you are taking her away from her babies so she gets wriggly and nippy. She's just being a good Mum.
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    Only five , not really possible! And that's not half of em? Ones l never tire of. CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER by Stephen( Band of Brothers) Ambrose. Well written with the fortunes of the main characters cleverly entwined without compromising the facts. HISTORY OF A PEOPLE by T R Fehrenbach. Again by Fehrenbach , LONE STAR. The history of Texas. Heavy reading according to some but enthralling to me . Detailed and very atmosperic. ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK. John Bourke. A first hand account of military campaigning in the American West. Not just limited to army
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    I've had calls most days for the last three weeks. Broke my "stay local" rule last week and went to do a nest about ten miles away. When l arrived the customer was out but the cleaner was there and had been told to expect me. She was indeed expecting me but frustratingly hadn't been told where the nest was . A scout about revealed that there actually four nests in various parts of the cottage l showed them to cleaning lady for confirmation , did the deed and left an invoice. My triumph lasted just long enough for me to drive back to my home patch . Whereupon came a phon
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    Those trigger wires are great for threading unshelled monkey nuts, drilled hazel nuts , bacon rind etc, onto. Or as in the picture ,half a Kinder Egg pod filled with peanut butter? But ,yes; best bait up before setting the trap . Stumpy isn't a cool nickname....
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    Not quite an armadillo trap but big enough for a cat sized thing. A boot sale find ; l had to figure out making a trigger mechanism and it could probably be improved upon but it works. There is a wooden treadle with a hollow for bait. The doors are lined with tin to foil gnawing and scratching . And a random one from this morning; the supermarket shelving fox trap strikes again!
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    One of my mildly bizarre creations using a upvc off- cut liberated from a skip.? Superb workmanship , not? It does work though.
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    ?? lt's a BSA cf2 .243 .The Leupold Variex 111 scope is probably worth more than the rifle?
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    I think solid, dark box / tunnel type traps like the ones you are making will always outscore wire traps in the long run. They have lots of advantages; the natural feel and smell, the instict of many animals to check out tunnels and the fact that an animal can't fuss about trying to reach the bait through the mesh. I s'pose wire cages are just easier to lug about . Shrouding them in wooden tunnels definitely helps though.. I'm a bit envious of your enthusiasm for trap making and tool kit . My efforts tend to look like something that belong in a skip or on a bonfire!??
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    A friend had been dropping hints about a fox that was getting a bit too cocky . A run -in with the farm yard cats hadn't been enough to stop it familiarising itself with her chicken run in broad daylight . In an effort to earn some Brownie points l set out in pursuit yersterday evening. Some tracks for horse exercising had just been cut through a hayfield and l hoped the naughty fox would turn up to do a bit of scavenging amongst the the newly mown grass. Settling on a position that gave me a good view along the biggest track l sat down and waited. And waited. I should've bro
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    Somewhere in the shed. I may be sometime?
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    What you are describing is a rig for fishing a deadbait "sink and draw" or "wobbled" rather than static . Some had little vanes or propellers and were known as spinning flights. The ironmongery was designed to keep the valuable bait secure enough to withstand repeated casting and retrieving. As Nicepix says : There was no nipping down the shop to buy convenient frozen bait. Generally you caught your own. Or if you were rich you had a man do it for you. If you were very posh you might've bought little fish preserved in formalin and encased in celluloid .
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    The body grip in a tunnel and the Quell are completely different traps. They can't be considered versions of the same thing. I've a little unbranded ,probably Oriental , copy of Mackem's Quell. It is a very simple one piece unit . It would be easy to make DIY versions in various sizes. It's basically the same principle as most box and cage traps but with a very strong spring and a falling bar instead of a door.
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    A lot of old bamboo rods were finished in thick brown or black laquer that seemed to survive being flexed. I guess if you find the right sort of paint that'll bond with a more modern material it'll work. Fishing should be fun?; go for it!?
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    ??Clearly the customer should've realised that "last man" couldn't make it pay at £4 a mole so stopped coming .
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    Actually yes. I bought a 'spinning rod' at a boot sale for a fiver knowing full well that it wasn't a vintage split cane rod even though the seller insited it was. He was half telling the truth l suppose because though the butt section was cane , the top section was clearly part of an old solid glass rod. The whole thing had been painted black to disguise the discrepancy. I had an old cane fly rod top section in the shed so after a bit of fiddling with ring spacing and a ferrule swap l ended up with a100% split cane spinning rod. Except the butt section was still black and the new t
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    On anything over the size of small garden ;not really. The now unobtainable Reynardine repelled everything, dogs ,cats, deer, friends ,family, neighbours etc. It would take a lot of rags soaked in stinky stuff to secure the perimeter of a bit of land and they would need to be renewed regularly - labour intensive. Animals soon become inured to such things and the lure of some tasty food source will trump a few smelly old socks. And anyway Jeyes Fluid and creosote hardly offer a cheap solution . Anyone rich enough to consider using diesel at todays prices could proba
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    I still have a TSL.
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