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went into my neighbours garden today to set some traps for some naughty rabbits...........i dont think they will be naughty for much longer. shame to have this so early in the breeding season
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looking from the PLATE side the jaw on the left is higher on the Juby looking from the PLATE side the jaw on the right is higher on the imbra
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It may WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT Well Micky you must know best so but,i always found it a lot easier to run a hare to a net at night then in daylight,jmo. It may come as a suprise but i don't know best but perhaps i know little more than you! .....BIT OF STICK IN THERE GOB INDEED
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WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT
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we eat a lot of rabbits Eddie , we have 5 grown up kids and a flock of grand kids ,the all eat them to
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just got to this one before the birds broke it up, there are plenty of half grown rabbits about now in these parts after a very bad season so i will taking one or two a week for ferret food ,
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DO NOT bag hares. Crate them or they may die. Crate them in boxes where they can't move too much. They are an animal that gets stressed, in a bag they will suffocate. never had one die and we moved 30 or so how can it suffocate in a Hessian sack don't make sence bit of a random statement Darcy suppose it would in a bin liner lol edited t o say all animals get stressed once court just don't over handle them and keep any noise to a minimum and yes old Sam would only release at night he reckoned they stay put then don't know what the reasoning behind it was but they did OK Bud, you know best.
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Thats a good chalk lads . Tomo ,get them rabbits off to melton , they were maing two quid a couple this week , by the time you have paid for your fuel ,market charges , parking and a cob you will have made a tenner.
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nice when it happens lie that , i had a rabbit once within a few seconds of setting the trap i think i may have disturbed it as i set the next trap.
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in hot countries if they are hunting for the table they keep the rabbits alive untill they pack up
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Sometimes ya gotta do what you gotta do. The two times I used creosote were not on rabbits but worked on another pest. One time was under a load of dumped metal and the other was under where a shed had collapsed. Both places were impossible to dig. My friend who used it for the trials needed a lot of rabbits above ground at the one time and got that result. Like I say, to 100 each time, hardly amateurish. back in the 50s [pre mixi ] we stunk rabbits out for gundog trials ,we used parafin mixed with some type of tar what was used on sheep ,it was easy enough to get them out but you nee
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had a pop at a new spot this morning it was in an area called the Caudles in Leicestershire , its very hilly there and i was soon blowing a bit you could tell there was a good head of rabbits here but they all seemed to be in the gorse , by 11 o clock i had had enough and as i was taking a rabbit out of a net a pissed off keeper roared up on a quad , soon as he knew who i was and who told me to go he came on board and told me all of the hot spots, before he left he asked me to run my ferrets through a old bonfire site at the back of his local, two trammel nets down ferrets in and three minutes
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If i couldn't catch a few rabbits without having to resort to such stupid , amateurish and unworkable methods then i think it would be time to give up
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set half a dozen wires yesterday three on a fence three right out in the pasture , i thought those on the fence could be bankers but it was the field sets that caught [ two wandering bucks] . Ferreting in the morning on a new spot don't now anything about the place other than theres a small overgrown wood thats full of rabbits. they don't all catch
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THIS IS A RIGHT LOAD OF TATERS.
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where my eldest lad is working there is a wood full of rabbits , he has been watching the feed and thought that he has spotted a blind drop with a narrow choke point, he came round last night and took a 30 yard trammel to give it a whirl , i told him that i would pass as the night was poor but he said he was going as he had seen them out feeding when he finished work , he rang last night to say that there were rabbits flying everywhere but only stopped two , there were noproblems other than he could not get the rabbits out of the net and had to take them home and do them in the light..........
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tapioca in a pastry case [snot in a coffin]
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Good chalk Jim . are the does showing much ? its season over in Leicestershire , nests in every sett.
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i go to a place that has artificial rabbit warrens on it , they were put there in the 30s and i met the man that done them ,they were about twenty feet square , two feet high and a 100 yards apart there hard to see now but years ago the fields must have looked they were covered in giant mole hills, when i first came to this place about 40 years ago there was a stable were all the traps hung up and also the wall was covered in hooks to take the rabbits, i do not know if this type of set up was all over the country but i have seen this set up at two other places in Leicestershire all within a fe
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buys them off of me for £2.50
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The chef at a local restaurant called this morning asking about wild rabbits , i told him i had a few hanging up and they needed dressing , he said he would take all had at the price he paid his butcher , when i took them in later this morning the waitress gave me an envelope with £78 in it , 15 rabbits at £5.20 a nob.He wants some more in two weeks , they might have to be road kill, but he will certainly get them.
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i was bit on the nose by a dwarf once and he pulled a chunk of hair out , a proper nasty little fellah
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out this morning not expecting to much but they bolted well,one dig produced two and ten more bolted lost three aswel but not to bad for Leicestershire in a bad season.One of the rabbits was banded ,the farmer allways likes to hear about those as his granddad introduced new blood after the war to thicken their backs up
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[quote name="perthshire keeper" post="385096 Mixi finished rabbit trapping in the 50s, it will never come back, the world has moved on and the 22 rifle has now replaced the trap and trapping is now just a hobby for the few people who do it , the imbra will never make a comeback because other than a very small select few there is no market for them in the numbers that would make it viable .
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A simple ,easy to use and humane trap ,much better than the Fenn 6 for rabbits in their burrows,their only downside is that they have becoming to valuable to use .