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    I use .22 shot cartridges trough my .22 rim fire to dispatch anything that needs sorting in a trap on a regular basis. No problems what so ever. Great for rats at close range as well!
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    Having had 20 odd years in the game I think the first thing you need to do if you are considering Gamekeeping as a career is get your head looked at!! If they find that you are of sound mind try to get in contact with a local keeper to get some work experience, if you still think it is what you want to do, get your name to the NGO, GCT and BASC. Check out the Agric colleges that run Gamekeeping courses, try to find somewhere that runs one day a week training, you will find that Keepers will be more interested in someone who they can show their way for some of the week than someone who has spe
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    Check the lumps in the blind gut and the duodenal loop, thats the three bits furthest away from the gizzard, is it lumpy or frothy? Looking at the original pictures it looks like vent pecking to me, best advice is let them out, if pushing them back in at night is a problem get plenty of green stuff i.e willow branches, onion tops, kale leaves etc etc and hang them up just above the ground, so they can peck at them, this will give them something to do for awhile. The blood quills will be coming through on your birds at the moment this will give a target for the others to peck at, once blood i
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    Try here for a contact. http://www.ukpcoforum.co.uk/
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    A friend has phoned today looking for a couple of dozen English Partridge, he is based in North Somerset can anyone help?
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    Fox cub without a doubt, I have seen this three or four times, the little shittes get in after the decoy and knacker the wire when they can't get out. While checking traps a few years ago I could see a cub in one of my Larsens, by the time I got to the trap it had managed to get free, the damage was identical to your picture, not a hair anywhere.
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    The only time I have ever felt guilty was when I drank Gold paint.
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    How do you know which trap has caught how many moles? Do you mark your traps? I have 2 or 3 hundred Talpex, Do I need keep them in batches of caught 10, caught 20 etc. They all look the same to me. If it takes a good deal of power to set them then the springs are alright.
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    Interesting that you clean you traps before use, I just chuck new traps into my trappers bag along with the older ones and all of the other junk I carry, by the time the first mole patch is arrived at they are all the same covered in dry soil etc, I buy 20 traps at a time as and when they are needed.
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    Be careful where you put your traps now you have painted them you may never find them again in woodland!!! Nicely done that man.
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    Carbon Monoxide is not an approved method for controlling moles or rats. You can bolt rats with it to terriers quite legally. However, if you were to back fill holes while smoking out with the intension of gassing the rats that wont shift, that would be an offence.
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    UKPCO ?
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    A group of us have today bought a 17' fishing boat for use on the river Severn, we are looking to get a fish finder, the screen will need to be a type that can be removed when not in use or it will get pinched. Which is the best type for use on a river?
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    That is about the same size fish that we use as live bait on the river Severn! (I wish)
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    Is there anywhere that pocket poppers for the Bodygrip traps can be bought in the UK?
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    Try this for clearing moles http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E8bWl37EwDA&...feature=related
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    "if they had burned my bales they would never have needed to worry about putting their central heating on ever again," LMAO!!!!!!!
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    The idea is to set wires in the hollow blocks, the kids are aged from 10 - about 18 all from the local estate, last year they torched 2500 straw bales for fun, anything and I mean anything gets smashed up, the old bill are as much use as a chocolate tea pot. I don't need ideas like secure the boxes well or use rodenticide powder we have been through all of these, even metal bait boxes inside purpose made steel cover boxes have been ripped from the rag anchor fixings and thrown into the hedge. If we can come up with a design of a snare that can be manufactured at a suitable price we will g
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    Now we are rock and rolling, I will sit back and have a look at the design and see what I can come up with, keep the ideas coming for snares. As I have said before 99% of the other available methods have been tried all have one problem or another, liquid bait in an area that has no doors and more holes in the roof than Tommy Lipton has tea bags water water everywhere.
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    By law you have to retrieve any bait that is not consumed at the end of the treatment it would be impossible to get bait out from the wall cavities, this job is being over looked by the powers that be , it is an enforcement. The burrow baiting has been done for those that resided outside, tracking dust and feed have been used we know now precisly where they come from but everytime we use baits or traps kids create havoc. I would like ideas for in door snaring, we are competent in all other methods of rodent control, this is a one off job that is causing difficulties. Any ideas of how to
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    We have used smokers, terriers, multicatch you name it it has been tried, I get paid hansomely for doing the work so no real problems other than the kids bugger up traps and scatter baits, snaring is an option that we want to look at, there are plenty of place we can get to snare that would be to difficult for the kids, in the past if we have put in traps they get damaged, 23 Mk4 Fenns and tunnels stamped on can get costly, snares, once the design is sorted are a lot more discreet that traps in tunnels and hopefully less costly.
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    I have a problem job on the go at a farm that is basically falling down, over run with rats, has tons of loose grain on the floors, no doors on the grain store barns and kids that bugger about with baits and steal traps. I have convinced myself that snaring could help to reduce the rattus population. The problem:- the snaring will have to be done inside, the walls are 9" hollow concrete blocks and the floor is concreted. Anyone have any ideas how I could make up free standing ie supported by a frame or what ever indoor snares?
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    Choose the most efficient humane control method after doing the risk assessment. Gas and a clear up with traps if it a big job works well, just traps if it's just a couple of moles. Talunex flasks contain 160 pellets, Phostoxin 30, Do the Math. Phostoxin every time for rabbits tho. £21 for Talunex £18.50 for Phostoxin. Empty Talunex flasks have to go down the hazardous waste route Phostoxin flasks can be punctured and then burried (at the moment)
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    I have used the smoker, not that well impressed, as Bry says they can be dangerous with the open flame. On quite a few occasions we used the "Rat Smoker" to bolt a few rats, just for fun we used a strimmer engine after the smoker just to see if anything was left in the holes, everytime we bolted more rats with the two stroke. In the end we put smoke in from the Rat Smoker and blew it on through using the strimmer engine.
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    Copied from www.ukpestcontrollers.org www.rfdnetwork.co.uk Just a quick post to let everyone know that the RFD Network is now online. Please spread the word so we can keep the UK airgun mail order business alive. This is a completely legal solution to the VCR Bill banning mail ordering of air weapons and accessories. The website is brand new and will be updated constantly. Text from the website below. With effect from 1st October 2007 mail order of air weapons and certain accessories will be banned in the UK. However there is hope to keep the business alive. The RDF Network
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