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I have got a few cameras about KH. I will set one up on this trap....once I get my hands in there and see how it operates [emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi-Hunter
Also I agree with you on price. Fortunately this one was a gift so very grateful to have the opportunity to try one out.
Personally I would be keen if it caught feral cats as well !!!! [emoji41]
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[QUOTE=kukuwai;1339179]I have got a few cameras about KH. I will set one up on this trap....once I get my hands in there and see how it operates [emoji106]
Also I agree with you on price. Fortunately this one was a gift so very grateful to have the opportunity to try one out.
Personally I would be keen if it caught feral cats as well !!!! [emoji41]
Personally I agree.
KH
find out where the mynar birds are nesting. get there just before light with a mate and a couple of shot guns. just as you hear them getting started up for the morning, ( just on light) put a shot into the tree and be ready! they all lift en mass and let them have it. usually about 3 months or so before they head back in. works a treat. First did it up kaiwaka on a mates farm I was working on a few years back.
Hi KruzaQuote:
Originally Posted by kruza
Do your best, we don't need them coming down south.
So that puts you on the coal face so to speak.
KH
arnt they down south? lucky you. they're a major annoying pest, competition for food that native species eat. I hate them. same with rosella's and I'm not keen on the kukabura's around wiarewa way. ( released by govener gray way back. fortunately they haven't spread and are few and far between. yes I have seen one, and can confirm they do exist there, all be it years ago.) crows in hawks bay. its a sad state of affairs for natives in nz.
don't even get me started on sparrows, starlings, pheasants and gawd knows what else.
kruza, as long as you're started, many are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by kruza
Some have racks of firearms and mostly all they see is gun oil or a piece of paper. So don't get me started.
KH
A mate has a couple of these at his work and raves about them. he caught 4 possums in one night with one of these. if it was a gift someone thinks you are a good fella :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
I am staying off steep ground while waiting for a hip repair job – so hope you guys can keep this thread going
My wife checked around 60 traps yesterday – not a single rat – this predator might have been cleaning out the rat traps - she looked to be well fed – I caught her in a rusty old cage a couple of weeks ago but she busted out when I put it in the back of the car to take her for a ride home
The Possum Master set on a log ramp has been quite successful - but I had expected the weekly fresh rabbit lure would have pulled in the odd mustilid
The same day I lost the tabby from the cage, I got a black one that had been seen for a while - in a Steve Allen trap – there is no escape from a SA trap
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Great job timeout.
Sorry to hear you have become part of the hippy community at your age.
Still the new hippie job today will last a hundred years.
The hills will be a challenge at the start, but life is full of hills , isn't that that truth.
Get through all those hills up and down and then just to add an insult, they try and put that little mound on top.
Good to hear your wife is backing you up and doing you trap lines.
Great wife you have! of course you know that, but they hardly get a mention and the ones that have found a good wife, that's real treasure.
Take care my friend and not to much couch timeout.
KH
Hind leg on the tabby looks a bit mangled, what’s the go there?Quote:
Originally Posted by time out
She didn’t notice anything odd – maybe the way it was screwed up trying to escape the noose – before rigor mortis set in
All the best with the hip repair job time out :thumbsup:
set snare?
Finally, been trying to shoot this cat with me air rifle for a couple of weeks.Shot 2 more meantime. Started his top run of farm about 5 days ago. Decided better try something else as he's onto me stalking him and still killing.Attachment 203331
Cat trap type unknown, bait part of hare I shot. 4 nights till he touched the trap ( had seen him near trap second day after it was set when checking it.) Visited the nearest water trough upon capture.
Great you got him in the end, Im still after 2 wild cat around here but they only come around well after dark. been too wet to bait and wait for them
Try the rabbit destress sound. It brought grey cat into range. Even when suspect of me. If they are hunting rabbits as a food source shood work. Attachment 203332
must be a good feeling to see an animal who's life you may have just saved.
another one in a trap in different spot [:x] This cat is from the house cat that dissappear on farm for few years before it came back to retire at house.
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time to shoot a couple of hares and/or rabbits and set up a snare run at the river flats, see how big the problem is.
Its no wonder the animals are so flighty for stalking.
8 days from trap set till capture.
A learning experience about our compost bin – tucked away beside some garden shrubs. Decided to shift it and cut some shrubs back. Found about half a barrow load of fresh dirt under a shrub on the back side of the bin. Got to work with the chainsaw and cut a few branches off – then saw an enormous rat run out of a hole under the bin and off to the boundary. Pulled the compost bin off the pile and found a network of tunnels through and under the compost bin. Put a couple of traps in the garden and one in the base of the newly positioned bin – he came back and tripped the bin trap but escaped. I put a fenn6 in a black Phillproof tunnel beside the boundary – sure enough – last night he took a walk on the rusty fenn6 foot plate – no escape from a fenn6. I reckon he is a size 8 Norway plus a big tail. I guess he enjoyed a warm dry winter with fresh food every day – he taught me a lot about compost bin rats. But what I don’t know is how he shifted so much dirt – how do they do it?
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Well done Time Out .... but how many more down the hole?
I'm starting to like these live traps.
There is a lot more cats out there than I realised, just scoping the terrain and stalking. Attachment 204001
But what really surprised me is that this didn't trip in the wind last night.
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I'm experimenting with the traditional design but altered it, so the cat pushes past the trip stick (which usually has the bait wired to it) to the left side, to bait at the very back of trap. The stick balanced on the trip stick and has the noose and rope attached to bent sapling then pulls to the left. (Traditional is set to center) Hitting cat in face as it starts to close noose. Cat keeps backing out in hurry as noose tightens and the left hand entrance stick which is barely in ground (it's the rocks to the right that stop it pulling out same lever principle as trip stick) comes loose, the entrance pops out of ground and sapling it totally free to deal with cats weight. Only been in a couple of days so probly still stinks of me setting it up.
there is allot of pleasure removing predators like cats. you will find the more you remove the better the bird life will be - especially those pheasants
Just to show you what can be achieved with intensive trapping around a 70 acre community reserve – approx. 200 trap sites – targeting all the animals seen on the graph below – we use approx. 160 Kness snap-e rat traps
A team of four still doing the rounds every week – just four kills in July and seven kills in August. The 2021 year to date total of 314 pests. Mainly rats but a good number of the other prolific bird killers – hogs continue to invade around the perimeter and threaten our Quail population. The cats were seen and reported by visitors and were quickly removed. One ferret in a Doc250 was quickly followed by its Mate in a nearby Doc250.
Possum paste is still our trap lure of choice – the ants and cockroaches clean it out in a couple of days but the Cinnamon odour seems to persist in the bait cup and still trips up the odd rat
One of our team checks a line around our internal roads and gets good numbers of rats from the traps – and keeps bait stations supplied with Contrac poison, about six buckets so far this year - so we kill more rats than what shows in our kill numbers
We have been doing this level of pest control for about eight years – but they always come back
Rabbits are controlled by a Council night shooting contractor – so I don’t have the figures but they are now under reasonable control
For those that think that pest control is a simple task of setting up a few traps per hectare – sorry – they are smarter than we think – I have a variety of eight traps in my one acre back yard – all our neighbors have multiple traps – they don’t like mesh on boxes, or a GN A24 – I mostly trip them up running over a Fenn6 in an open Phillproof tunnel – they keep coming up from the nearby estuary
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Maybe intensive traping is needed here. 1080 ain't the answer
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...kills-kea.html
Giant Eff up.
But honestly, is anyone surprised ?
victor no 2 trap - Victor 1 to small but you could use two together side by side two no 1 would hold a cat - secret is to haze trap well - hazing involves building walls of branches etc leading up to trap- guiding cat up to trap - almost like a hedge -now most important camouflage trap - dry leaves really good especially those dry ones that have become skeletonized -make sure trap cant be seen - bait well rabbit works good -pin big fresh piece fur and all about a 700 cm up tree - trap placement is important -imagine cat coming along sees rabbit smells it -walks up and reaches up to get rabbit - so trap needs to be about two hand widths out from trunk - this works and is what we used to teach until DOC became to PC - fresh poultry works toQuote:
Originally Posted by Pointer
I just caught part of an artical on TV about sausages being used with good effect on cats and Stoat in a trial in nz. I think it was a rabbit and chicken sausage. Could anyone fill me in on details please?
Likewise I only got part of the article.Quote:
Originally Posted by kruza
I did hear that when testing the dyed green sausage bait with game cameras set up a stoat went for one sausage only three minutes after it had been placed.
Yep it sounded good from what I caught but I missed the beginning and that held the story
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HW97k. A recent one judging from the stock. Congrats! The starlings will hate you. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SL600
Fandangled trap seems to be working as it should. Pretty cool really !!
Nailing them two at a time [emoji41]
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Logged onto it this morning, not surprised it hasn't encountered many possums as we only get one once and a while but it seems to be accounting for a few rats [emoji106]
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A mate has one and he is in an area with heaps of possums. Has caught 24 so far, even got 2 last night. His dogs getting a bit fat [emoji23]
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A mate has 3 or 4 of these A220s at his work and the record is 4 possums in the one night in the one trap. Great trap :thumbsup:
They say the smell of a mustelid is the best lure for a mustelid.....
Its amazing how many times I have done this now.
Caught a weasel and then left it on the top of the box (minus its tail of course) only to return a day or to later to another one in the trap.
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Interestingly the bait in this trap was a fake egg so they do work [emoji3] Well enough too fool the first one at least [emoji106]
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I had one run in front of the truck when taking dog for a walk down river last night. Nasty little f%^kers!Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
Bloody hard to hit them with the truck too ah Mikee. I have a couple of attempts tho [emoji41]Quote:
Originally Posted by mikee
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I have been very inactive for the last few months after a hip job – I still can’t touch my toes so clearing traps is out for a while – I have been checking a couple of traps down a track beside our street – I have caught hundreds down there over the last couple of years but for the last few months it has been very quiet - a couple of good trap sites have caught nothing – but three days back I got a young rat and then another one the next day – so the young ones are out on a learning experience – they often come back in big numbers in February and March
We still run a couple of tunnels in the garden for rabbits and get a few – but the large Norways are suckers for walking over a Fenn 6 in an underground tunnel – they also check out a Victor pro in the compost bin
A rusty old Victor pro in a hedge up the street is still doing the job – even with no lure!
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this man is on to it -exactly the way I was trained and how we used to teach cat trapping before it all got to political - trap site can be enhanced with hazing - quite simply place any branches -bunches of vegetation to lead cat to bait and hidden traps - use two side by side to make sure you anchor the bugger - rabbit really good or fresh poultry dont bother plucking - just hang it up - also works against base of tree - camo trap well - traps victor no 1 okay victor no 2 better - hare trigger them most important - dont bother with cages unless cat has been a pet and dumped - wild cats require a real smart mindset - dont waste your time with kill traps and I say that with 35 years under belt - wild cats to bloody smart usually - camo traps - hazing the way to go -Quote:
Originally Posted by Boar Freak
time out that Victor on photo 3 looks well used ;) :)
Hopefully that hip is being well looked after ?
