Paid pest control

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Paid work.

Infestation of disease carrying corvids getting in and on cow grub. Not good.

The payment went towards some more access to pheasants in winter.

Didn't want to knock the double about in a farm yard setting so I took a single.

26/16, not bad for me. Still smell the farm yard on me or is that just how I smell !

 

Man this forum is buggy!

[Longshanx 833]

Good going SD, the farm I go to has pigs and all the sh!t goes into a slurry pit, man that thing sticks

Yeah the sites been on and off this morning. 

[Stavross 13,806]

5 hours ago, Sausagedog said:

Paid work.

Infestation of disease carrying corvids getting in and on cow grub. Not good.

The payment went towards some more access to pheasants in winter.

Didn't want to knock the double about in a farm yard setting so I took a single.

26/16, not bad for me. Still smell the farm yard on me or is that just how I smell !

 

Man this forum is buggy!

Cracking bit of pest control there Bernard, on the sheep farm they used to have a small head of beef in a purpose built open shed every morning at first light crows would come over in their hundreds, me and my mate mosh had some cracking morning on them, as soon as they got shot of the beast they just stopped coming over the farm

[foxdropper 17,092]

On 23/04/2020 at 10:16, shovel leaner said:

If you are referring to the dog and vixen I shot last night in my post in corona foxes , I’m putting some traps on the earth now , I’ll let you know how I get on . Looks busy , flies everywhere and flattened vegetation.

No reflection on you mate ,I know the score at your place .

[Stavross 13,806]

Back at the small holding and no sign of the vixen, cat food had gone but that could of been anything, lad had 4 of these little buggers in the cage trap so they are definitely out and about, if only the adults were daft enough to go in them

[ianm 2,594]

Funny old thing are cage traps. The bloke next door to me snared twenty one foxes on his hedgerow ( he has a two acre paddock )one winter a few years ago, after i had shown him how to set them. He also had a cage trap and kept it baited for two years, all he caught was a fox cub.

Now, i had a very good mate who had five acres on the edge of Caterham Surrey ( who is now deceased ) and he caught foxes no problem in a cage trap. I remember him catching fourteen vixens one January about five years ago.  

[Sausagedog 7,381]

24 minutes ago, ianm said:

Funny old thing are cage traps. The bloke next door to me snared twenty one foxes on his hedgerow ( he has a two acre paddock )one winter a few years ago, after i had shown him how to set them. He also had a cage trap and kept it baited for two years, all he caught was a fox cub.

Now, i had a very good mate who had five acres on the edge of Caterham Surrey ( who is now deceased ) and he caught foxes no problem in a cage trap. I remember him catching fourteen vixens one January about five years ago.  

Old keeper mate of mine retired is still snaring and cage trapping them now in his eighties. His cage is huge....he got caught in it last year and had to wait for his Mrs to come looking for him

[FOXHUNTER 5,020]

I think urban foxes are more readily caught in cage traps compared to their cleverer country cousins. The only foxes I have seen cage trapped were Cubs,  who also like getting caught in Larsens.

[Stavross 13,806]

I’ve never had many country foxes in cage traps but catching town foxes is like shooting fish in a barrel, if you put one around the houses your going to get a fox or next doors cat

[shovel leaner 7,648]

7 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:

I think urban foxes are more readily caught in cage traps compared to their cleverer country cousins. The only foxes I have seen cage trapped were Cubs,  who also like getting caught in Larsens.

Had this adult fox in a Larsen a couple of seasons ago . It’s the first adult fox I’ve had in a trap . I catch cubs all the time in fox traps and in the Larson but never an adult . Had a Tawny in the Larson as well . I obviously let it go in case anyone is thinking of calling Chris Packem.

[Stavross 13,806]

I’ve just looked at this, read the top line and looked at the top picture, I was just about to explain to you that that’s not a fox, then I read the rest of it and scrolled down

[shovel leaner 7,648]

Just now, Stavross said:

I’ve just looked at this, read the top line and looked at the top picture, I was just about to explain to you that that’s not a fox, then I read the rest of it and scrolled down

I loaded them ass about . And don’t know how to change them , good job you stuck with it and finished reading.

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I would of let it go too mate, no meat on them what so ever!

[bumpy22 414]

I catch a few each year with the cages. Always try and bait before putting cage down. Been putting flooring over mesh as I have heard they don't like walking on mesh. Not sure if I am honest but don't think it does any harm. I also cover sides with what ever is lying about stops them trying to reach through mesh and triggering trap. Also only gives one entrance to see what's in. The cubs will always go in easy as they are naive. But I catch them during cold spells well when they are hungry. I make my own cages and find the bigger the better

Edited April 29, 2020 by bumpy22

[Sausagedog 7,381]

7 minutes ago, bumpy22 said:

I catch a few each year with the cages. Always try and bait before putting cage down. Been putting flooring over mesh as I have heard they don't like walking on mesh. Not sure if I am honest but don't think it does any harm. I also cover sides with what ever is lying about stops them trying to reach through mesh and triggering trap. Also only gives one entrance to see what's in. The cubs will always go in easy as they are naive. But I catch them during cold spells well when they are hungry. I make my own cages and find the bigger the better

Looks a tidy job