Another two hogs today.But missed a friggen cat:(
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Another two hogs today.But missed a friggen cat:(
Got 1 hog yesterday
I have just set a new trap in my chook coop. Hope I get that rat!
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Hope you are making progress with that rat Sean - keep trying and you will get him :huh:
Had a quick look round some traps today - one rat, one hog and one possum - all helps the birdlife
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Rat became fresh lure in the font of a cage - fish fillet in the dish - might tempt pussy
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Possum and hog recycled over a steep bank
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Just ready to leave for home round 5PM - roosters calling up in the bush - so gave them a few hoots - back they come from all round and this one floats down and lands in the top of a ponga about 50m away - I was in full view by the car but we called to each other for about 5 minutes - light was bad but camera managed some good pics
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I haven't caught that rat yet, yesterday I got a hedgehog and 4 possums, I am pulling my traps out now as I'm not getting much
Bucket of water and a lead up are the best rat/mouse traps. They keep killing even when you don't check every day ;) Spotlight for the hogs.
Up the boot-camp today for odd jobs - driving up the drive and spotted a few Quail - as usual they run up the drive rather than fly - well after about 50m or so there must have been eighty of them - best number we have ever seen so if they can get through the winter and breed - there should be heaps of quail round the district next summer - sadly they wouldn’t stand still for pictures - but about twenty in this picture
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Checked the trap line about 50m away down the boundary line - just one large rat out of about twenty traps - seeing the Quail made my day and seeing just one rat was great - right now - numbers are low
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Went for a walk this morning - Three possums.
Bravo, @Sean...!!
They seem to know they are safe - I haven’t been able to kill a bird predator for around a month - not even a mouse - checking about twenty traps several times each week - plus about ten bait stations - I think the Goodnature gas traps are making a difference - six out there at present - interesting to see the hawks flying very low over them looking for a feed :)
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Bad decision Tom! - he should have stayed eating young rabbits - I saw where he got two nearby in recent days - thank goodness they weren’t pheasants
He didn’t even eat the leg of rabbit I left as bait in the cage
First blood for the 17 - it is deadly accurate - just Savaged him
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And then there was a stupid rat that just got caught by the leg - I haven’t got much time for the T Rex trap I have had a lot of leg traps and even body traps where they are still humping
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Silly Buggar - stuck his head in the box to check out some GN possum paste on a Victor - just clipped his nose
Hard to find a dead predator at present - just a cat that I can’t catch
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Where do u get possum past from
You can get Goodnature possum paste direct from GN - but more simple from Farmlands - bright orange colour - cinnamon flavour - from my experience most predators love it - I used it a lot in Sentinel traps - also in a milk bottle top in Timms traps along with a piece of apple - you get rats or possums
I even got a stoat in that box in my last post - GN were surprised that a stoat would go for it
My Mate prefers Smooth in a Tube - a blue lure - Ferafeed from Connovation - I am going to buy some tomorrow - http://www.connovation.co.nz/vdb/document/101
good work @Timeout
Thanks Dynastar - I hope you guys don’t get sick of my predator control - but I do it for our pheasant, quail and native birds - I never shoot the game birds - they just overload on our property and head out into the wide blue yonder for others to enjoy - my predator control will never cease while I have this property - you can never say the job is done - because they keep on coming
Today has been a great day at the farm - I have been searching for a grey cat that I first saw a couple of weeks ago
I went up the hill to check the first of two cages - a black cat - I wasn’t after you but never mind - some close work with the hmr - Jenny - very pregnant
Up the hill another 50m to the second cage - yeh! - the grey cat - a bit more close work with the hmr - it was Tom
Just imagine the damage that Tom and Jenny have done in their lifetime - the feathers from a rooster I found on Sunday will be the last they leave round here
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Don't have he gamebirds over here but we sure get some huge cats, have heard of them up to 20kg
How many diffrent traps have you got?
R those snap e rat traps any good can they kill stoats constantly or is a victor better
And can these snap e rat traps be modefied. I like modifing the Victor Serch it up on da me cylinder "you tube"
3 hogs and a possum last night. All the hogs were within 20m of each other
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Man now that is flat!
The rat must of thought the rotting rabbit leg and cracked egg looked appetizing. @Dundee do u got one of these traps
Then give them swimming lessons :thumbsup:
Hope my wife doesn’t see this note Sean - because I spend a bit of money and too much time on this stuff - at present I run -
1 Doc250, two cages and a new one ordered, 6 GN A24s, about 25 Victors and Snap-E traps and 10 bait stations. Also have 3 Timms traps for possums and just got three more that I have drilled out for Whiskers
I have only ever had one cat in a Timms but a mate is getting them with hole enlarged - I will try 100mm - also sick of rabbit bait going rotten so quick so am going to try cat or dog biscuits in a net tube with biscuits scattered inside and around the box - not sure how it will go
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It's all an investment time out and a bloody good one in my mind
OOPS!
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Three little piggies/ hogs and a big bad wolf huh?
Right next to the river:chop:
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Well done Dundee - hope your new dog doesn’t get the pricker with you:ouch...it hurts:
I got one yesterday in a cage - rolled him out and shot him subsonic - seemed to do the trick
Shifted my Doc250 down near the road but suspect I will just get hogs - yuk
Friends on 250 acres down near Merritt in Halcombe sent me an email yesterday - they got a family of five stoats in a Doc200 - one day after the other - on fresh rabbit
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Got my very first stoat today with the doc 200
Sis took pic them sent it to me on snap chat. It stuck pretty bad been there awoley the rails in the fresser hopefully there be a swap comp next year. Got it at the duck pound
The knife is a buck 112 it's about 18 centermeaters
freeze the tail you will be in.:thumbsup: I saw a weasle on the way to town tonight.
Dam atoecorect yes I meant tail
Had a couple of pricks join me while I milked this morning.
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