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Still busy with jaspers so I could have done without helping a mate clear out his shed this afternoon. On the plus side he insisted that any scrap money from the "useful" bits of metal that had been cluttering up the place was mine. Hence having found myself £12 richer for having deposited the remains of a Yamaha frame and some bits of copper pipe on the scales I obviously questioned the need to risk life and limb in the wasp's nest business. They are a friendly lot at our local Metal Recycling establishment and I am a tolerated spuddler in their bins so I wasn't surprised when one of the
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I think you are correct in your assumptions and are missing nothing. I think its us that are missing out on the chance to find out from you about hunting things with mink. What do you hunt and why use a mink?. Are there legal restrictions on using ferrets? Hope you don't think I'm being nosey(no pun intended considering the topic) . I'm a bit fascinated.
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What is the breeding on that pup if I may ask? It's a good looking little pup! He's a mongrel:) Yeah, I kind of assumed that. Do you know what breeds he is mixed with? Mum was a collie ,Dad was a stray lurcher of unknown breeding. The owners of the collie were not best pleased:) He was ferreting at ten months but he was one of those old head on young shoulders dogs.
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What is the breeding on that pup if I may ask? It's a good looking little pup! He's a mongrel:)
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If the dog is calm enough to given a bit of free rein and is showing an interest in hidden dummies or game or sniffing certain holes in preference to others its worth testing its instincts. It must be a great confidence boost for a young dog to see its mark rewarded with a catch. And probably no greater disappointment for it than to have its handler dismiss its instinct as puppyish enthusiasm and walk on. Within reason if a young dog is marking a difficult or un-nettable place I'll ferret it. Even if the quarry disappears over the horizon it has to be done for the sake of building
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Myxi is not a man made disease. Its a natural disease of the South American rabbit, an animal which interestingly also displays a level of immunity to the disease. European rabbits taken to South America lacked this immunity and died . This gave the boffins food for thought and ,yes, they did experiment with different strains and we all know the result. But, the spread of myxomatosis proved the old saying that "less is more". The first strains of the virus were simply too virulent and killed rabbits before they lived long enough to spread the disease. Milder strains were the answer th
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Part of it is probably because after a flurry of mating and territory defence from late winter into early summer rabbits settle down into a more sociable lifestyle for a few weeks in the hotter months . At this time the bucks become less sexually aggressive because of the high-daylight conditions which affects their hormone levels. Despite the high population all is sweetness and light for a while. Then as the days shorten and nights draw-in there is a period when light-levels are just right to stimulate the bucks to start mating again in late summer /early autumn. Myxoma
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If its bladder stones the cystitis will keep reoccurring despite anti biotics..and the dog will be in bl**dy agony!
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That's put paid to your application to build a housing estate then. Unless of course you have plenty of brown envelopes or wear a goatskin apron. Haha, I wish mate. The only Brown envelopes I have normally say Final Demand in big red letters on them. Are those newts in an aquarium? Always amazes me what people have as hobbies. Is there anyone else on here who keeps newts (or anything else for that matter ) to release back into the wild I have loads of newts in my pond ,mostly common smooth ones but the odd palmate and a few alpines . A few years ago I kept a couple of smooth newts
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On the newt theme. Mummy Daddy Mummy popping out an egg Half a baby Baby!
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That's put paid to your application to build a housing estate then. Unless of course you have plenty of brown envelopes or wear a goatskin apron.
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Irony Or Karma-Have A Laugh At My Expense.
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
No. I was wearing goggles and ear-muffs and so perhaps was not quite as aware of things as I might have been. I saw the side come off the nest and maybe because a wasp nest up close is no big deal it took a second or to for me to react. Only one actually landed a blow for Waspkind-just above the goggles. How dare you suggest that I ran! No ,I merely blundered backwards going"F***,s****,b****er," in a dignified manner. -
From Monday morning until Tuesday lunch-time I fitted in 14 wasp's nests. Each job required decisions about PPE,suitable approach and appartatus. Other than jaspers no wildlife was harmed . Pets ,clients ,passers-by and myself went unscathed. So come Tuesday afternoon I'm helping a neighbour cut their hedge and guess who put a hedge trimmer through a wasp's nest.
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Could well be. Little clicky, clicky chewing noises? Look outside for a flightpath . Or stick a chocolate biscuit -hang on -half a chocolate biscuit up there and see if it goes .
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Our council actually took pest control back "in house" a few years ago. I guess it realised there was money to be made .
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First Attempt At Partridge
comanche replied to kinderbeano's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
The usual way of releasing partridges is in groups leaked from small sectional pens with a net on top, containing food,water and some sort of shelter. Ideally each pen would have an electric fence round it . If you intend to release a lot of birds from several pens the initial outlay could be considerable. Another option, if you just want a few birds is to site a covered pen within a pheasant release pen so it benefits from the security and doubles-up on the use of the electric fence. The partridges can be leaked out with the pheasants . The obvious danger of mixing species is that of d -
You stink it out a few days before and do the surrounding burrows.
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Be quiet.Be patient.Ferret like locators had never been invented but have one handy just in case
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I seem to spend longer explaining ,in my pseudo-expert persona, about the life cycle of the little Jaspers than I do on the actual slaughter. By the time I've described how all those returning foragers will hang round the nest ,desperate to go inside because "They are wedded to the only home they'll ever know and their lives revolve around it",and how once they get too close the powder will get em...well some customers are close to tears. Usually the wife comes out with a cup of tea and tells her hubby to pull himself together though.
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Pebbles,marbles ,a golf ball; it helps. In the end even new seals don't compensate for hard usage. I usually use a foot-pump on the valve to charge the pressure tank as it saves wear n tear on the hand pump and you don't get that annoying situation where the big grey mushroom shaped seal on the bottom of the pump tube loses it airtightness due to congealed bits of dust. I bought a couple of knackered dusters from a retiring pest controller and have done away with the hand pump altogether on one of them by removing it and blanking off the hole. It can only be charged via the tyre val
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I also suspect that the Mk3 was a bit of a rushed -out, damage limitation job. It certainly seems that way. The Mk2s really were a pile of poo that looked space-age but were no better than the Heath Robinson locators people were knocking-up in their sheds before the MK1came along. And if you are offered a supposed Mk3 collar in black plastic that ticks like a time bomb don't pay more than a tenner for it. Its a MK2 collar;it'll work but cost you a fortune in batteries! Only by Deben going back to fitting a volume /squelch dial and quickly announcing it as the MK3 were they sa
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Tench are good. You'll probably rarely see them but neither will the herons. what a great opportunity to source some pure(as opposed to the mongrel goldfish that are so common these days) crucians and help an endangered species. You won't need many as they will breed like stink without too many competing species and you may be able to cream off some to sell as a way of reducing the population before they start to get stunted .
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You could've just bought a Mk3 collar-they work up to ten or eleven feet with a Mk 1 box. The only good thing about the "Phasers on Stun" Mk3 is the search function. We always switch to the old grey box for the final dig. Now if someone made a locator based on the old Mk1 but with the search function -no flashing lights ,no stupid Space 1999 noises-something that isn't so intrusive with just a single knob(ooer missis).....They might be onto a winner. The Mk1 is so simple to operate one handed while you peer into the distance watching for bolting rabbits and wayward ferrets that
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It will usually cost you the full sum of a quid to quickly realise that the show organisers cannot be arsed to source competent judges that know a working lurcher from a pseudo terrier.For a quid and a little ribald banter does it really matter?,i hate spending brass. For some reason I was persuaded to be a judge at a show. I have no qualifications for such a post; my dogs have never been of the sort one associates with rosettes and I wasn't even flattered to be asked. In fact I was horrified! I can only assume they were desperate. I bummed-up on Ted Walsh's guidelines for judging lurchers a
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Scars can't be helped but as skycat says; conformation and condition are all important. Put the time in to clean the dog's ears and teeth and cut its nails,make it shine . Some folk pull a dog out of a kennel and when it gets snubbed , whinge about the Judge "Not knowing a proper working dog when he sees one." Yet go to a horsey event or livestock show and every competitor from the from those with no real chance of a rosette to the regular winners will have their animals and tack all agleam. Get your head round the word "show". scars or not, its your chance to walk the dog out before
