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  1. micky
    I have never felt the need to alter this type of trap as i find that they work for me with no form of adjustment, i think it is a type of vanity to adjust something that has been designed and tested by experts , i know its horses for courses but if it touches those prongs its dead , keep it simple ,the thinking has been done for you, and as with all traps placement is the key
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    The disease has always been there it was not invented , the scientists devised a way of spreading it
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    Just a little off topic , in season i pick and sell a lot of the fungus called BLEWITS i usually do well in the first two weeks of November , over the last few years the market for these has diminished so i am constantly looking for new outlets , last week i rang a place in London who are PURVEYERS OF lUXURY FOOD STUFFS , they were advertising Blewits at £38 .50 a Kilo but they were out of stock , when my wife rang and said she could supply at least 50 kilo a week for two weeks they offered her £3 a kilo subject to condition and delivered to London , they are still in the field.
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    Mixi is nothing like it was when it first came out , to start with it was 99.9% lethal . It was an awful sight in every field around us there were hundreds just sat out if you walked up to them the would walk away if they could then bump into some thing , in 56 i went with my Grandfather on is moterbike and sidecar to a place in Charnwood forest, the road was called The Warren Hills Lane and it was covered in dead and dying rabbits and you could not miss them me and my sister were in the sidecar and it never stopped bouncing , it was a sight , and sensation that i have never forgotten .
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    Only the one this morning but i saw plenty at the side of the road, there has not be much about all Summer but now i seem to be seeing more every time i go out? must be because the cover is going .
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    I do not knw how many were in but it would not have been many to get that price .Up until a few years ago there would be at least been 5 hundred a week and if you were selling you paid 5 pence in the pound in fees now days you pay 50 pence entrance per lot 17% commission , on top of that you have £3 parking and your fuel costs , its just not worth the trouble .
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    If you had put 86 rabbits in Melton yesterday you would have got nothing like £9 a couple and would have probably have to have taken a lot of them home ,Pheasants will make 5pence each in a couple of weeks because there will be a thousand in, if there was only ten in they would make ten pounds a brace
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    In the area i live there are three small shoots [40 bird days ] the people who beat can take all they want , i think this happens on a lot of shoots now days .
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    There is a very large Estate in Lincolnshire were i catch the Rabbits the Keeper there is not the type of man to lie or make things up , when i was up there some weeks ago he told me he was having trouble with Buzzards and also he had seen a Kite catch a Pheasant poult, i have no reason to doubt this man if he said he saw it, he saw it.
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    Yesterday at Melton PHEASANTS £0 .50 BRACE PARTRIDGE £I . BRACE RABBIT £9 COUPLE BLEWITS £8 PER lb HARES £5 EACH MUNTJAC £16 EACH The big shooting days have not started yet, when the big bags come in they will remain unsold. There was a Jill Ferret in that made£30
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    When you look at the amount of fur that has been plucked off the rabbit you would have thought it was in a mess but the Buzzard had not broken the skin and the rabbit sat quiet and alert in the wire, i have had a few rabbits that have been eaten by Buzzards they like to strip the back legs.
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    well catch them alive
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    Yesterday i put a couple of pictures up one of which shows that the Rabbit had been attacked by something i wondered if anyone would pick up on this and suggest what may have done it but no one did [ those that would have have long gone ] well it had been attacked by a buzzard and it must have been a hell of a ride for it , It must have dropped on it when it was almost light as i was there at first light and it was foggy and nothing had been touched up to dusk the day before, these attacks are getting more and more common but i don't begrudge them a meal as i birds and birds of prey in partic
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    I ONLY PUT FOUR SNARES DOWN YESTERDAY THREE IN THE FIELD AND ONE IN THE FENCE THAT I FANCIED THIS MORNING HER WAS A GOOD FROST AND IT WAS VERY FOGGY, NOT THE BEST WEATHER FOR IT , IN THE FIELD THE FIRST TWO SNARES HAD CAUGHT AND THE THIRD HAD BEEN KNOCKED THE SNARE IN THE FENCE BLANKED, I THINK I COULD MAKE A BAG AT THIS PLACE BUT I WILL EKE IT OUT OVER THE SEASON.
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    Black Pudding

    micky replied to PLEDGEY's topic in General Talk

    There is a stall at Brum Meat and Fish Market that sells good Black Pudding and he has lot of rosettes up from competitions from all over europe that he has won , i asked him what made a good pudding and he said its down to the fat you use ,i think he called it COD FAT AND WAS FROM AROUND THE Pigs Kidneys ,Seasoning and the Casings were important but it was how the fat rendered while it was being cooked and he like me liked it steamed .
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    Black Pudding

    micky replied to PLEDGEY's topic in General Talk

    It would be a SCAB.
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    What have you learnt ?
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    They are no good set in the open or in holes to me they work best in fences or in runs in growing cereal crops there is no doubt that they are an effective and humane trap but England is too small a place to use them , over here we use the 116 for rabbits that is a 110 with a bigger spring and over time i have caught non target spieces including full grown Foxes .
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    It is because the weather is turning colder and the Rabbit have stopped breeding , so its time for the Puff Guns to be put away till late Spring .
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    there are a lot of curry places in Leiecester and some of them are very good but if you order a dish that contains off the bone chicken you will get the lowest grade of mechanically recovered chicken meat you can buy it comes from Holland and it is shit, the stuff you get in the chinkeys is worse
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    West indians andChinese buy a lot of pheasants if they can get them at good price, later in the season when the price drops to 10/15 pence the will buy a hundred brace at a time , they buy a lot of eggs as well. .
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    YOU WILL SELL THEM AT MELTON MARKET UP TILL XMAS AFTER THAT THEY WILL NOT GET A BID , AT THAT TIME LAST THEY MADE TEN PENCE A BRACE BUT YOU HAD TO BUY 50 BRACE AT A TIME AND A LOT REMAINED UNSOLD LAST WEEK AT MELTON PHEAS £1 A BRACE PART £1 A BRACE MALL £1 A BRACE RABBITS £5 .50 A COUPLE
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