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is there any one around west yorks

 

a farmer i shoot for has asked me if i can get him any mole to feed his pet birds of pray i dont do any mole trapping and dont realy hav many on the land so any one got any going? keeps me in the good books with the farmer

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I have never heard of that!! Why not give him a few rabbits instead? Or squirrels? :hmm:

Rabbits have very little nutritional value to a hawk, squirrels do though and also do rats which i have a freezer full of, i would imagine moles being a good food source as well if they could be caught in good numbers, i have heard folk say nothing will eat moles but my ferrets love them.

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Normally i bury them after i have shown them to the client, but i have one customer and she has a taxidermist/artist friend and she wants all the moles i trap,i believe she is making a coat off moleskins, at least she tries :D . I can't wait to see it though.

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Quite a few things will kill moles if given the chance but only a few will eat em . They turn-up in owl pellets and I guess more than the odd mole-catcher has had traps trashed or stolen by badgers who do seem fond of snacking on moles .

 

The only human reports regarding eating mole I've heard of come from that Victorian father and son team of dietry experimentalists -the Bucklands . Mole-flesh was not favoured .

Considering these guys once had an aged and very dead leopard dug-up (They were miffed that London zoo had buried it without giving them first choice !.) One can assume that they knew what they were talking about .

 

As for feeding moles to hawks . I gave some to a keeper of Harris Hawks . The birds apparently pulled the fresh corpses apart and were pretty selective about which bits they ate . Moles that had been frozen and defrosted were totally rejected.

It would be interesting to hear from other keepers of birds of prey who might have tried feeding moles.

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