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I bought mine from Killgerm. Expensive but top quality. H
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I agree with OTC. If you intend using the snares on a regular basis as protection, then earth anchors are the way to go. Even with no snare present, the anchor will not be obtrusive, and when you need to, you can set another snare at the same location in the future. For tealers, snareman recommends 3mm galv wire, these can be painted with snaremans favourite paint - Vauxhall leaf green. All the best. H
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This is the pest control section.
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Good going Moley. Is there any way to prevent the snow drift into the cages? Using straw perhaps? H
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Be careful Jetty boy... it gets addictive! Well done, hope you get many more. H
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I agree with IanB, if you can get the rabbit holes use Fenns, if not then snare them on the rabbit proof fencing. Woodga and many others have put up some great posts on fence snaring. If the horses are not in the paddocks at night then hoop snares lifted before the horses return are another alternative. The badgers will only be a problem when they take your rabbits but will not get caught in rabbit snares if you use the new breakaway ones designed by snareman. All the best H
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There a large amount of foxes in Britain today, a lot of which have mange and other disorders due to high populations. We lost 16 chickens in two nights to one fox which dug under a fence which was buried to 12 inches deep. That fox is no more. The next one that comes around will get the same welcome. Native or not, foxes can be a terrible blight to smallholders, farmers, keepers and anyone else that has livestock of any kind. I do not advocate killing every fox, but numbers must be kept to a managable level. One of the young guys I work beside actually stroked a fox in the town square at
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OTC, I believe the law in Britain to be less then 12 foot lb for an air weapon. That is a rifle of course, for pistols I don't know as I don't own one. H
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Snareman put up a post a while back on clearing your gamebag of fleas, add sand or dry dirt, give it a good shake and tip out, the fleas (majority) will fall out with the sand. H
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Adam01 I think stephen58 was talking to snareman. H
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All I can say is you must have some bloody big rabbits.
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A very good result anyway. It save a bullet. Your foxes are in great condition though, not like some of the mangey ones in suburbs. H
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The idea with the deer stop is that with stop set at nine inches, the noose never closes fully so a deer can step out of a snare. The breakaways will not breakaway when a fox is in it, they were invented by a guy who has snared coyotes, bobcat, beaver and just about anything else on four legs so he knows the breaking strain need to open one of the eyes. As he openly admits, this is not 100% foolproof, but who else is doing anything to keep snaring legal and human? With the deer stop in place whatever you catch has a better chance of being alive that it would with the old type of locking fox s
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Well snareman we know from experience that the breakaways work both for foxes and rabbits, I truly wish I had been using them a few years ago. Adam1 posted elsewhere that he had an empty snare yesterday with no markings in the grass, proably a deer had stepped into the rabbit snare and easliy pulled free, one less deer with necrosis and non the worse for its ordeal in don't doubt. H
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Looks good whipeter, if a little damp...
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Sounds like it might have been a deer then. You were just unlucky. Snaremans design works without fault though. Good luck with the rest of the snaring and it might be worth trying hoops instead of tealers, most larger animals including escaped sheep, deer, etc will walk over a hoop. All the best H
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Best advice I can give is to get a pro in, 3 days and the problem may be over H
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Ive been using conventional fox snares with deer stops for over ten years so I'm aware of how they free a deer if caught by the leg, but having caught many big strong dog foxes over the years and seen the struggle they can put up in a snare I'm just not totally convinced how these eyelets would hold for a fox and not a deer...a Muntjac for instance? Obviously its the snaremans responsibility to do his homework before setting so hes not setting where non target species are present, but if this was the case all of the time there would be no need for break-away fox snares because no snares would
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Kobidog, rabbits run and move less cautiously out in the open, I can't say if you would catch in the mouth of the warren, but a few yards out where they are going to feed would produce better results. H
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Hi Adam, was the grass around the snare flattened? If so its possible you took the rabbit but something else took it, if not then a fox may have opened it for you. Was the snare itself twisted a little or tangled? H
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It is possible that a deer may be leg caught accidentally, that is why the breakaway fox snare comes with a deer stop on it. When a certain gentleman invented this type of breakaway device he didn't go at it half arsed and he thought it through completely. A deer would not only break free, but the deer stop on these snares frevent the noose from closing all the way, so a deers leg can either step through or pull free. As for cats, if you set your snares low enough to catch cats you deserve everything you get, if you set them where you know there are going to be dogs then the same thing app
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I agree with Matt. Whole maize at the back of a cubby or if setting on trees with body grips then peanut butter in a sleeve as Masterhunter suggests. H
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Gnipper, I would suggest getting in touch with johnB, he has a book on making your own traps, from wood to mesh and all things in between. H
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reading in todays sun the black death has cured 40 taliban permanantly , don,t we just love those rats.