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  1. Crosshair
    Dark back and tail. I would post the pic but, well, you know........
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    Lol! No but she is fairly distinctive.
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    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.
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    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 )
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    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
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    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!
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    Sorry, it's sold now.
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    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.
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    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!
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    Arrived today exactly as promised. Great service. Looking forward to getting it running.
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    Caught this yesterday: Biggest so far. The trail camera showed two more there as well so the trap will stay a little longer. I've never cage trapped many before but it's working a treat and I've caught 7 now from two families. The dog fox is still bringing these food which I then place in the traps. This place is a real fortress with no chance of sitting out over it and the earth extends to over thirty meters with 30-40 holes in all. I half hoped the trap would scare the vixen into moving somewhere easier but they know how safe this earth is I think. Meanwhile, I can't get the adu
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    My terrier is excellent at marking which tunnels have caught a squirrel but I still have to look as she doesn't tell me which ones are sprung but empty
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    Never had that happen in all honesty. My first thoughts would be somebody letting them out! My second would be the material of the snare having too much memory and springing open too easily if you made them yourself. Third would be that the fox is getting its leg in it rather than its head so just pulling it as far as the deer stop and brushing it off. Can you describe where and how you set this or these particular ones?
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    A huge thanks to Dave for all the patient PM'ing over spec. I think I'll be very happy ordering a 50mm with the NF bracket and extra cabling matched up to the 7" screen as discussed. PayPal order to follow. Will post some pics once installed. Cheers Dave
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    LOL, is it just me or do all hunting folk slow down to have a look and then feel remorse when they see any wildlife killed on the road.The only roadkill that doesn't bother me is a dead cat. lol,I stop regular,on the way to work this morning picked up a mallard still warm,ferrets tucking in as we speak .hate to see things rotting on side of the road.atb dc Antis love reeling out the figures about how much more efficient cars are than hunts at killing foxes whilst simultaneously ignoring how inefficiently vehicles actually kill stuff. They should really be donning balaclavas and sabbing Eddie
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    Wouldn't a mild winter bring the vixen into heat sooner. That's what I don't know. I had always assumed it was day length that triggered oestrus but these dull, cloudy, wet, mild, low-pressure winters have darker days than a crisp, cold, bright, frosty one.
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    The thing to remember about early cubbing though is that it's not dictated by the severity of the winter. It's dictated by when the vixen came into heat. "The annual estrous period of female red foxes last from 1 to 6 days. Ovulation is spontaneous and does not require copulation to occur. The exact time of oestrus and breeding varies across the broad geographic range of the species: December-January in the south, January-February in the central regions, and February-April in the north." The questions I suppose are- what triggers oestrus? And is a Christmas cub that we hear lots of sto
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    You ought to come to my part of the world. There is no room for illegal persecution of BoP. Too many people. We lose in total to Buzzards in one season what a fox can kill in one night so there isn't even good grounds to want to break the law. I'm certainly not glad hunting is banned. My wife loves hunting. I had my own horse for a few years, hunted with lots of packs locally and we took our horses hunting with the Exmoor Foxhounds for the first leg of our honeymoon so less of the ignorant tar brushing hey?? You literally haven't got a clue about people.
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    What you forget FB is that in lowland England, hunting with dogs is banned to all intents and purposes. Our hunt has such a massive country now that they only hunt here once a season anyway. My boss doesn't want to save foxes for an illegal hunt once a year and why should he?? Its not like the hunt are going to fork out £40 a bird for every predated pheasant or partridge. I kill every litter I find and on the one visit a year, the hunt always find anyway (during the course of trail hunting you understand ) so your logic doesn't even stand up to scrutiny. I happen to have a great
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