Stoat Attack

[forest of dean redneck 11,190]

16 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

You’ve probably set them upside down 

do you want me to come and show you how ? 

Last time I went trapping they made it into a film , the revenant 

Not southern comfort then

[Greb147 6,808]

32 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Exclusive trail cam footage from wilfs canary cage ....

 

One of the best wildlife pics ever taken, I read that the Woody got away. 

[EDDIE B 3,120]

On 17/05/2020 at 19:08, jetro said:

Still legal here tomo.

Atb j 

Yea, but trapping stoats isn't

[Blackmag 5,870]

Me personally I couldn't try to trap.or kill such a great a country character or predator but that said it isn't taking my live stock 

[foxdropper 17,092]

When things were a bit more relaxed on the trap scene ,trapping  stoats was very easy if you caught that first bitch in the spring .

Take her to the next few traps and squeeze the urine onto the plate .Almost guaranteed a catch next day and the urine off them went to the next trap and so on .

Id be sceptical it was a stoat that sprung your traps wilf ,probably mice .Forget the dead stuff as bait ,just run a few traps 24/7 in tunnels around the base of your set up .If it was a  stoat or a weasel ,you will get him because they cannot resist a tunnel .    

[WILF 44,328]

So, the stoat won.....no further visits.

He is fatter and happier and I am a load of stock down and poorer.

Wipe your mouth and move along  

[Born Hunter 17,639]

2 minutes ago, WILF said:

So, the stoat won.....no further visits.

He is fatter and happier and I am a load of stock down and poorer.

Wipe your mouth and move along  

Shit one mate. All you can do is move forward proactively to reduce the chances of it happening again.

All the best. 

[Greyman 25,276]

7 minutes ago, WILF said:

So, the stoat won.....no further visits.

He is fatter and happier and I am a load of stock down and poorer.

Wipe your mouth and move along  

Mixed emotions on that one, do love a stoat or weasel encounter and think nature in general suffers when to many predators are removed, but on the other hand have kept chickens for years and also understand that feeling of total shite when you come out in the morning and find the carnage,  hope it all works out for you and your hens

[WILF 44,328]

16 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Mixed emotions on that one, do love a stoat or weasel encounter and think nature in general suffers when to many predators are removed, but on the other hand have kept chickens for years and also understand that feeling of total shite when you come out in the morning and find the carnage,  hope it all works out for you and your hens

I’m the same mate, I love to see these things around.

You just don’t want these things to turn into a problem.

However, on a brighter note after 5 years half of my fields on the home place have completely re-established as natural meadow.......I’m pretty proud because it was all done without chemicals or any of that shite.

The rest will hopefully be sorted within the next 2 years......

Was walking through fields this morning and the mixture of grasses, flowers, herbage made me feel a million dollars.

Good mixture of frogs, insects, birds etc......had a corncrake on my front lawn the other day !! 
So, always reasons to be happy  

[j j m 6,481]

sorry to hear this bud ,a few years back my goss nailed a stoat

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,558]

On 17/05/2020 at 15:09, 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  

Have you contemplated the fact that maybe it was suicide ? 

You probably wandered in giving it large about carp fishing and they thought “f**k this , let’s do ourselves in rather than be owned by this chump” 

 

[Meece 1,957]

On 17/05/2020 at 20:45, gnipper said:

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. 

....FORE....

I was told of a guy who had pheasants down his drive so when he used to come home he wound down his door window and issued the daughters hockey stick. Apparently  it was very effective!  

Edited May 19, 2020 by Meece

[keepdiggin 9,221]

On 18/05/2020 at 14:06, Arry said:

Have you a cage trap Wilf. Sorted this little bugger this morning after wrecking some of my bird feeders.

Cheers Arry

You going to release him arry?

[Daniel cain 42,891]

4 minutes ago, keepdiggin said:

You going to release him arry?

Can't illegal..... 

[TOMO 24,876]