Lol

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On sunday I was away exercising the dogs on a farm, got the dogs gathered up in the van and driving up the farm lane to go home.... farmer drives down the lane and pulls up to chat for a min, he says he has a pile of corvids coming in to his bottom field beside the feed shed.... I said sound ill bring a ladder trap on Monday evening after work.

Monday didn't suit so Tuesday evening we pulled up after work and set up the trap in the bottom corner of his field beside a strip of trees where they were, there four old dis used badger setts on the strip ok for a fox at winter but hasn't been a badger about his place in years...its what they call re claimed land meaning it was under water for years, they drained it and its that sea shell substrate real soft to dig and this land runs about 1 and 3 quarter mile square and burrows are prone to flood in heavy rain so badgers just don't reside there....Tuesday evening and Wednesday we left the door open Wednesday evening at sunset the door was shut and the latch was closed.... Thursday went down 23 corvids in but the wire on the bottom left hand corner was well dunted in and the 2x1 had been cracked...so I toed the mesh in and went back to the van and got a peg and pegged down the left corner... I knew a predator was on the prowl and I had my suspicions it wasn't a fox!

Was going to check the trap today and set up a trail cam this evening, didn't need to as I was going down the field the trap was out of sight but I could hear constant distress calls from the corvids in the trap and knew right of way something was up, so quicken my step over the fence and into the field and there was the culprit in my trap a sow, along with 14 corvids...all gathered in the top right hand corner and gripping mesh for dear life.... she panicked and was giving my mesh a right going over trying to get out, so I opened the door and ushered her out before she made a whole mess of my trap.... 6 clever corvids made there escape and I watched her run off into the sunset up the drainage trench 2 fields and over the railway tracks.....

[HPR 1,161]

Must be lying Chris packham said the only eat worms ha ha . Pain in the arse and they can cause loads of damage

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Get the corvids in a bag for my ferrets!

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Get the corvids in a bag for my ferrets!

lol this is the same place you lost the exhaust of the berlingo and scared everything for 2 miles. on the lamp...

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Ha ha!! Some nights craic, peelers pulled me on the bridge to see what the noise was about!!

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Used to get them turn over pheasant catchers and virtually destroy them as well as making off with fenn traps that had caught and wernt chained up to a tree .Badgers can be the boldest of opportunists ive found ,bless um.

[taz2010 1,297]

had a home made fox trap set in some bales 2 years ago got there billy was in the trap totally destroyed the trap and what an hassle getting him out,also there well known lamb killers

[jiggy 3,209]

You should of got bullcross to usher it to safety haha.

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Came across one of my cage traps with billy in and he had dug a hole had to be 18 inches deep underneath, all through 2" square mesh!!

[neil cooney 10,416]

On sunday I was away exercising the dogs on a farm, got the dogs gathered up in the van and driving up the farm lane to go home.... farmer drives down the lane and pulls up to chat for a min, he says he has a pile of corvids coming in to his bottom field beside the feed shed.... I said sound ill bring a ladder trap on Monday evening after work.

Monday didn't suit so Tuesday evening we pulled up after work and set up the trap in the bottom corner of his field beside a strip of trees where they were, there four old dis used badger setts on the strip ok for a fox at winter but hasn't been a badger about his place in years...its what they call re claimed land meaning it was under water for years, they drained it and its that sea shell substrate real soft to dig and this land runs about 1 and 3 quarter mile square and burrows are prone to flood in heavy rain so badgers just don't reside there....Tuesday evening and Wednesday we left the door open Wednesday evening at sunset the door was shut and the latch was closed.... Thursday went down 23 corvids in but the wire on the bottom left hand corner was well dunted in and the 2x1 had been cracked...so I toed the mesh in and went back to the van and got a peg and pegged down the left corner... I knew a predator was on the prowl and I had my suspicions it wasn't a fox!

Was going to check the trap today and set up a trail cam this evening, didn't need to as I was going down the field the trap was out of sight but I could hear constant distress calls from the corvids in the trap and knew right of way something was up, so quicken my step over the fence and into the field and there was the culprit in my trap a sow, along with 14 corvids...all gathered in the top right hand corner and gripping mesh for dear life.... she panicked and was giving my mesh a right going over trying to get out, so I opened the door and ushered her out before she made a whole mess of my trap.... 6 clever corvids made there escape and I watched her run off into the sunset up the drainage trench 2 fields and over the railway tracks.....

How'd you know it was a sow ?

[neil cooney 10,416]

 

 

On sunday I was away exercising the dogs on a farm, got the dogs gathered up in the van and driving up the farm lane to go home.... farmer drives down the lane and pulls up to chat for a min, he says he has a pile of corvids coming in to his bottom field beside the feed shed.... I said sound ill bring a ladder trap on Monday evening after work.

Monday didn't suit so Tuesday evening we pulled up after work and set up the trap in the bottom corner of his field beside a strip of trees where they were, there four old dis used badger setts on the strip ok for a fox at winter but hasn't been a badger about his place in years...its what they call re claimed land meaning it was under water for years, they drained it and its that sea shell substrate real soft to dig and this land runs about 1 and 3 quarter mile square and burrows are prone to flood in heavy rain so badgers just don't reside there....Tuesday evening and Wednesday we left the door open Wednesday evening at sunset the door was shut and the latch was closed.... Thursday went down 23 corvids in but the wire on the bottom left hand corner was well dunted in and the 2x1 had been cracked...so I toed the mesh in and went back to the van and got a peg and pegged down the left corner... I knew a predator was on the prowl and I had my suspicions it wasn't a fox!

Was going to check the trap today and set up a trail cam this evening, didn't need to as I was going down the field the trap was out of sight but I could hear constant distress calls from the corvids in the trap and knew right of way something was up, so quicken my step over the fence and into the field and there was the culprit in my trap a sow, along with 14 corvids...all gathered in the top right hand corner and gripping mesh for dear life.... she panicked and was giving my mesh a right going over trying to get out, so I opened the door and ushered her out before she made a whole mess of my trap.... 6 clever corvids made there escape and I watched her run off into the sunset up the drainage trench 2 fields and over the railway tracks.....

How'd you know it was a sow ?

 

Because it would of had balls on it like a bengal tiger if it was a boar.

 

I thought it was a badger, not a giraffe.

[jiggy 3,209]

Boars are black with white stripes and sows are white with black stripes.lol.

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On sunday I was away exercising the dogs on a farm, got the dogs gathered up in the van and driving up the farm lane to go home.... farmer drives down the lane and pulls up to chat for a min, he says he has a pile of corvids coming in to his bottom field beside the feed shed.... I said sound ill bring a ladder trap on Monday evening after work.

Monday didn't suit so Tuesday evening we pulled up after work and set up the trap in the bottom corner of his field beside a strip of trees where they were, there four old dis used badger setts on the strip ok for a fox at winter but hasn't been a badger about his place in years...its what they call re claimed land meaning it was under water for years, they drained it and its that sea shell substrate real soft to dig and this land runs about 1 and 3 quarter mile square and burrows are prone to flood in heavy rain so badgers just don't reside there....Tuesday evening and Wednesday we left the door open Wednesday evening at sunset the door was shut and the latch was closed.... Thursday went down 23 corvids in but the wire on the bottom left hand corner was well dunted in and the 2x1 had been cracked...so I toed the mesh in and went back to the van and got a peg and pegged down the left corner... I knew a predator was on the prowl and I had my suspicions it wasn't a fox!

Was going to check the trap today and set up a trail cam this evening, didn't need to as I was going down the field the trap was out of sight but I could hear constant distress calls from the corvids in the trap and knew right of way something was up, so quicken my step over the fence and into the field and there was the culprit in my trap a sow, along with 14 corvids...all gathered in the top right hand corner and gripping mesh for dear life.... she panicked and was giving my mesh a right going over trying to get out, so I opened the door and ushered her out before she made a whole mess of my trap.... 6 clever corvids made there escape and I watched her run off into the sunset up the drainage trench 2 fields and over the railway tracks.....

How'd you know it was a sow ?

 

well a sow has tits and a boar has NOT and since I make my ladder traps 2.4m long 1.6m high 1.2m wide.... when I jumped over the fence she was already 3ft or more up the rabbit wire and fixated on taking a corvid or 2... so I could tell from her under belly that she had sparse hair and nipples that looked to have been suckled on recently.... she also grunted at me in a very ladylike manner when she charged me twice and had bright pink nail polish on her claws....

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

She charged you twice!! Is nothing cheap nowadays, after leaving her go as well fu**ing pig!!

[fat man 4,741]

Lol,i actually thought it was a sow as in pigs that had broke into the trap as them b*****ds will eat anything.