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Dark back and tail. I would post the pic but, well, you know........

Lol! No but she is fairly distinctive.

I caught the fox in a snare about ten days ago. As I went to un-shoulder my .22, she gave an almighty tug and vanished into the bracken!!!! Gutted doesn't quite describe it- I was swearing for about four days lol Anyway, she slipped up again this morning and this time the crimp held (I threw out about 30 of my old snares after testing them). It was indeed a Vixen but not a particularly big or small one.

Tomorrows poults are cancelled so I'm going to try an early morning vigil. It's coming from over the boundary so quite limited in options really. It's a pen of 3000 so not quite a disaster yet. The electric fencer gets a fresh battery every night to make doubly sure he stays the right side of the wire (I say 'he', it's probably a tiny Vixen )

All the haterz will be pleased to know the foxes are getting plenty of poults Lots of grass about added to this wet weather means the ones that make it over the wire are easy pickings. The first one accounted for 46 picked plus whatever she carried away until I got her and the second one is on 54 and still at large. He dropped two poults and a leg of another in front of my snare the other night! My next batch arrive tomorrow so I may need to pull an all nighter to try and sort it out as I can't be in seven places at once Go on, tell me it's revenge for killing all those Cubs

My cage trapping luck ran out with these three monkeys and I never did catch them. They finally moved and I lost them for a month until I located them on Thursday living in a barn full of square bales. I also had my first adult vixen and a pair of very large Cubs with my Russel pup a few weeks ago on one of those stinking wet days we had. Poults arrive next week so fingers crossed things are under control a bit now!

Sorry, it's sold now.

If I have the whistle in my mouth then I use the turn whistle command. Otherwise I say "in there". Both accompanied with the turn hand signal. If beating with multiple dogs then I use the name first. Generally you could say anything that gets the dogs attention as your body language will give it away what's happening once they look at you.

Not moved on that much then, we used change over valves, thermostat controlled heaters, auto cut in generators for the the incubators and hatchers, auto drinkers and such like 30 years ago lol. That is exactly the system I want, days of carrying buckets of water and throwing blankets over incubators during power cuts went out with the ark. Ah well that's different Lol! My head keeper was still using much of the same 30 year old equipment Sounds like you just need the confidence to go for it. Good luck!

Also, technology has moved on a bit now. There's lots of relatively cheap and reliable monitoring systems. There's no excuse to be utterly tied to it like the old days. My friend is just starting out with a bit of rearing and I keep telling him not to be afraid to make the system easy from the start! At my old shoot, with just a few extra mannollas and some picca feeders we went from feeding the partridges twice a day every single day right through to twelve weeks; to feeding every other day once they were out of the rings. It made such a difference. My headkeeper said "I don't know why

Yes I think it certainly is viable. The price for poults varies considerably so you really need to be churning out top quality produce to get the best possible price. That's your way to steal custom from the big boys too I think. I guess the first step is to gauge interest locally. Find out which shoots are having issues with wandering, poor flying or poor returns as those guys will be looking to change things up. If everything is working, it's hard to get a keeper to change their supplier. I buy from a large supplier but get A1 stock, service and delivery from them.

We used to deal with Cubs first then sit up that evening at my old place. It didn't always work but often it did. It's all a big gamble and there's no hard and fast rule I think. The danger with trying to get the adults first is that you may end up disturbing them anyway and then the whole lot get moved. At least if you get the Cubs the killing stops and you've got no more foxes than you had before. It's easy to waste a week after adults only for them all to vanish anyway. It also depends on the terrain. This time of year here around here a fox can get wherever it likes without ever

N750 with mounts, remote, additional battery back and case etc. In great working order. Face to face preferred but can post it at your cost. £550. Cheers for looking.

Yes, I've been using it on the windscreen with the suction mount and it is perfectly usable as is but I know how good it will be on a T handle . My lamp man couldn't believe it as he never gets to see anything when I shoot with my NV usually lol I've been thinking it through and have ordered a £7 CB ariel gutter mount. Then my friend is going to make a bracket to mount another (Deben) T handle and lamp to. I'll run the camera wiring and a cigarette lighter end up to the top of the door pillar by the sun visor and in theory, all I'll have to do is hook the gutter mount on, put the two plu

Just a quick update to say I've tried out my new toy for the last two evenings and its a very impressive piece of kit. My original plan was to mount it on the Lightforce T Bar and I will probably end up doing that in some format or another but obviously (and perhaps contrary to some wishful thinking on my part) the camera isn't up to being permanently attached to the roof as it would be a waste to trash it with dust, rain and branches. I then thought about some kind of cover like a tougher version of a tennis racket cover but this wouldn't be ideal for travelling down the motorway etc. I can