WILF 44,289 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Went and checked my goslings this morning at 9am, had them under heat in my shed in a dog cage. Went back at 12 and every single one has gone, found them down the back of my tools slaughtered and a guilty pile of mustelid shit right by them. Found one part of the cage where the bars had been slightly widened at some point in its life and it got in there ! Brazen little b*****d ! So, Mk4s have been deployed by a couple of carcass that were left and at various point round the gaff. The foxes are going to get a leathering too just for good measure. Gutted 5 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 14,558 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Cheeky b*****d 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 18 minutes ago, WILF said: Went and checked my goslings this morning at 9am, had them under heat in my shed in a dog cage. Went back at 12 and every single one has gone, found them down the back of my tools slaughtered and a guilty pile of mustelid shit right by them. Found one part of the cage where the bars had been slightly widened at some point in its life and it got in there ! Brazen little b*****d ! So, Mk4s have been deployed by a couple of carcass that were left and at various point round the gaff. The foxes are going to get a leathering too just for good measure. Gutted The joys of farming Bad luck mate. Stoat or mink ?, neighbour had a mink in the hen house last week, pure slaughter, he got the bugger though. Atb j Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bell 3,503 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Natural born killers mate, had one swipe my daughters ‘baby bunnies’ a few years back........even though i kill hundreds of rabbits i was outraged it had come on my place and did that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,289 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, jetro said: The joys of farming Bad luck mate. Stoat or mink ?, neighbour had a mink in the hen house last week, pure slaughter, he got the bugger though. Atb j Stoat mate, funny the boy came in and said “I have just seen a stoat behind the house” and then I discovered them gone. im hoping to have the little b*****d over night 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, WILF said: Stoat mate, funny the boy came in and said “I have just seen a stoat behind the house” and then I discovered them gone. im hoping to have the little b*****d over night Good luck with it the hunt. Great little animals, mighty hunters, but unfortunately when they start pulling stunts like this, there's only one way it can end. Atb j 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,289 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, sid g said: usually a b*****d to catch wilf --- good luck . I left a couple of Mk4s by some dead that he had stashed and I’m hoping he is greedy enough to come back. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kinkell 787 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Bad news got a couple of weasels at my place month ago . I've got fenn traps set for rats all the time as I think fenn traps banned in Scotland for stoats 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mole trapper 1,646 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 It's that time of year again. We lost our only gosling that hatched yesterday to either a stoat or a weasel. Last night / this morning a fox had one of our hens that is an escapologist. She had got out and paid the price. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Spotted one of the beauties yesterday whilst out on a walk and on the drive home from work in the week, a Weasel crossed the M62 right in front of me. I cant believe it didn't get splattered, it just made it past my car and checked in my mirror to see if it made it. Luckily the lorry behind missed it too. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 24,875 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Think the fen 4 is banned now in England for stoat.. Not sure about over there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetro 5,349 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 8 minutes ago, TOMO said: Think the fen 4 is banned now in England for stoat.. Not sure about over there Still legal here tomo. Atb j Quote Link to post Share on other sites
big sid 1,119 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 not trying to hijack wilf but can someone give me an answer to this, last winter i had two pens with four oegb in each three hen and a cock in each they were out on free range a on alternative days one day i went out to find the cock in one pen dead lying in the run and the three hens still on the perch inside the coup, i thought it was because of the very cold and really wet spell and then four weeks later it happened again in the other pen cock lying in the run and the hens all ok and in the coup, never lost any of the hens. as i said i thought it was the weather so didnt check for bite marks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 5,945 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 hour ago, big sid said: not trying to hijack wilf but can someone give me an answer to this, last winter i had two pens with four oegb in each three hen and a cock in each they were out on free range a on alternative days one day i went out to find the cock in one pen dead lying in the run and the three hens still on the perch inside the coup, i thought it was because of the very cold and really wet spell and then four weeks later it happened again in the other pen cock lying in the run and the hens all ok and in the coup, never lost any of the hens. as i said i thought it was the weather so didnt check for bite marks. Did you have neighbours? Someone down our road had a massive cockerel and no hens and the bugger crowed all day, one of the neighbours went fence hopping one night and removed his voice box ( and his head) with a golf club I think it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,190 Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 My guess would be something came in the Cockerel tried defending the hens paid the price? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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