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When I go to someones house now I dont take a bottle I take a bird box full of bees! Everyone with a decent garden round here is being marked down as a potential bee foster home
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I would only kill any bees when there is no option and no chance of moving them. Was just interested in peoples views on bumble bee numbers now the summer is well underway, I personally have never seen as many bumble bees, its just honey bees that seem to be in trouble, in my view, in the area I cover.
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Iv had bumble bees in nursery schools, in front door ways, roofing companies taking a roof off, boarding kennels. If they are a problem and cant be relocated then I'll treat em. Prob save over 50% of the calls I get. 1 honey bee nest in an air vent I had to treat as they were getting into the house but other than that a worrying lack of calls about honey bees.
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There was a topic a while back about bumble bee numbers. Since then I have had more calls for bees than ever before, at one point I was getting 6 calls a day just for bees. I managed to transplant quite a few nests and convince many more that that they are very privileged to have them. Still never seen as many, whats other peoples experience of bee numbers this year?
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[BANNED TEXT] the feck is a punn and a troot?
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Best Tunnel For Stoat Trapping
DIDO.1 replied to Peter Shorrock's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
its prob not a weasal taking your bait. Concentrate on setting in the right place and think of bait as an added extra and dont over do it with rubbish second rate baits -
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/police-seek-racists-who-left-pig-heads-in-bradford-muslim-family-garden-1-5811710 cant believe the police told them to try and burn the pigs heads!! can you imagine the smell of a pigs head on a fire, in a back yard, in bradford! :laugh:
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its not the noise you need to worry about! its when the jobs finished and they fill it with 45 poles or a family of afgans
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I used to set dozens of tunnel traps overs a massive area around a grouse moor. Stoat numbers were directly related to rabbit numbers, in areas with no rabbits I caught NO stoats. As areas of rabbits built up stoats came from no where. I believe weasels were more dependent on field vole numbers. Things vary in area to area but its no use trying to 'introduce' anything without looking at the wider area and looking at why they arnt there now and what affect your reintroductions would have. If there arnt any rabbits what will they eat? Grey partridge? If keepers have reduced them in your area the
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SHOULD OF TASERED THE CNUT
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To all the welsh people on here,i have a couple of questions
DIDO.1 replied to MR TEA POT's topic in General Talk
to be fair when the welsh write things on here at least you can read it, when the jocks start you cant make head nor tale of it....who the frig is this ken bloke they keep going on about? my grandma was a taff (dont know what that has to do with anything, just thought id tell you cos its the only bit of welsh info i have ) -
Done that mate, chaining them to the floor and dragging the skin off with the hilux!!!. Lol. Happy days. I never saw 1 skin pulled off in hunt service, we skinned everything out. Even a cheap winch and a compressor would of helped, I didnt know at the time or I would of bought them myself! I remember skinning my first sheep and holeing the hide, I hid it in the pile worried id get a bollocking off the huntsman! at the end of the month he threw the whole pile in the incinerator as they wernt worth a thing...... never been as relieved!! I didnt realise you were in professional hunt
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It wouldnt feel like a hunt kennels without the smell of a flesh house. I remember skinning everything out, on the floor, with nothing but a few ropes to help turn big cows and horses. Cant believe I didnt get a hernia. I sometimes help out at a local knacker yard if they are busy and are in need of help or cover their holidays for them, we often get through 30 cows in a day and seeing how its done in a big yard I cant believe how hard some kennels make skinning.
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This isn't always true, the majority of the income here comes from the knacker round not from subscriptions or caps Really???? I never expected that. I thought knacker rounds tended to be quite a big expense. I know a lot of packs have got rid of their rounds as it was cheaper to feed dry. Licences, skips, incinerators, staff, a knacker truck. I'm not saying your not right, I know feck all about the figures, just didnt expect that to be the case.
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The horsey people who just want to jump pay the bills for the rest of us so we should whenever possible try to resist slagging them off.....but when ever I get chance to ride to hounds I just cant get used to jumping for the sake of it. I have always believed in not jumping unless you have to, why waste your horse and risk your neck when the next draw may produce the hunt of a life time, for which you will need all the horse you can muster! Mind you I am a bit of a coward and NEED to get my blood up first. Bit of a challenge when you like visiting new packs and you tend to get lumped with
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dont think its right to use terms like 'born with a silver spoon in his mouth'. without some people like that many hunts couldnt afford to exist, using class terms just lowers us to the level of the antis. I'm not saying he isnt an idiot though, I dont know anything about him. Things not go well when he was at the Haydon then?
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To be honest iv seen more good dedicated hunt staff than bad ones, in fact I can think of very few bad ones. Living in the west country you prob get to see more hunt staff than I do though! I like to visit a lot of different packs but that only lets me get a brief chance to see each 'in action' so I cant really comment on them. The worsted staff I see tends to be amateurs with beagle packs, I find it stressful watching them constantly nagging hounds and making a fuss. I subscribed to one north country pack a few years ago and it was total bedlam, 3 whips were taking turns blowing for hound
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I dont think its a modern problem, the history of hunting is one of masters wanting to hunt hounds in their own way ( some who want to get on , some happy just plodding round a big cover) and causing rifts/splits and arguments in different packs. Some hunts need an amateur who brings money with him and to be fair for every bad one their are dozens of good ones and amateurs have been some of the best. I take your point though. Also with regard to young lads starting at the bottom and working up....yes things have changed but thats just the nature of the beast many packs now with just one pr
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doubt it. unfortunately some shiit staff have been given good references just to make getting rid of them easy so anything is possible!
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What was he doing so wrong mate ? Got over excited constantly. A cat would cross the road in front and he would get so giddy that the hounds picked up on it and...well... he might as well of stood there and give a holla! lol I have never seen a man that hounds disliked as much. Takes years to teach manners but bad habits can be learned in days I suppose
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I'm going to phone the bpca and ask what answer they were looking for!
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Iv seen a bad whip almost destroy a pack of hounds before the season even started, just on hound exercise. Think he only had 2 days cubbing and became a kennelman! Again I think it all depends on the country. In some areas a bog standard huntsman and a fantastic whip can provide fantastic sport and is maybe the best combination!. In other areas the weight of the world is on a huntsmans shoulders and his decisions and actions are all that count.
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I put martin bug! they are practically identical so surely I should get a point for that. Your right with bed mite in a way in that alot of people think bedbugs are invisible mites that they cant see but I took the question to mean in a pest control context. I believe you dont get your exam paper back so guess I will never know.
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also depends on the country, iv seen one or 2 hunt countries where the foxes could be woken up with the noise of the huntsman drawing and given a good head start over perfect country, the foxes so fit in the season it all looked like one perfect set piece, and points were all that mattered once hunting proper started. In another area it is all about catching foxes in a difficult country and getting hounds away together on the foxes back was more important. Under current circumstances a huntsman maybe cant be as pro active about getting hounds away after the drag man and maybe has to let them w
