Lol

[neil cooney 10,416]

A badger climbing three feet up wire to catch crows and she charged you twice.

Well, you learn something new everyday.

 

Next time you should put sticks in your wellies ,just in case.

Edited April 26, 2016 by neil cooney

[jiggy 3,209]

 

 

 

 

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....

... reminds me of the missus except she has loads of hair on the nipples

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Was that true or not neil that salmon fishermen used to put cockle shells down their wellies in case an otter took a bite and when the otter heard the cockles crush would let go thinking it was bone

[fireman 11,510]

Was that true or not neil that salmon fishermen used to put cockle shells down their wellies in case an otter took a bite and when the otter heard the cockles crush would let go thinking it was bone

No that's just a rumour put out by the badger digging miners who used to put coal down their wellies to make the fishermen look daft ..

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Lol got it now

[neil cooney 10,416]

Here in Ireland it was a myth that old badger hunters would put sticks in their wellies and socks on the dogs ,with cinders in the socks.

But that's all it was, a myth.

Nowadays no one believes that a badger would go for you, except for Stop End.

 

Which brings me to my next question.

Why is there a thread on accidentally trapping a badger in a corvid trap on a terrier forum ?

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Pmsl Neil

[stop.end 4,082]

Lol

[fat man 4,741]

Mate of mine had 200 partridge ready for release from a small release pen for shoot day,night before a badger got in even though there was electric wire around the bottom of the pen,he killed every bird he could catch and what was not caught killed itself against the fencing of the pen,badger was still in the pen next morn when he went to release the birds.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

I bet he felt like strangling the b*****d thing! They cause an awful lot of damage to livestock and the poor fox gets the blame unless the culprit is still at the scene of the crime.