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    No doubt they love rabbit - but when using a cage I had plenty of catches using sardines
    Amazing how many times I have seen ferret road kill around sh2 bridges

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    Two stoats on the line yesterday.



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    Always interesting to see the different refinements in design of trap boxes. I like the steel grill at both ends (rather than flimsy wire) the timber looks to be 40mm rather than inch, the solid 3x2 baffle and the sheet metal to strengthen the screw hole. I've often wondered if having a side entry hole would work better, or the same as end entry. Clearly it works. Good job.

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    There are a variety of adaptations filtering through on the boxes around these lines.. mostly to deter kea.

    The metal plate under the screw is to stop the kea digging them out. (Some particularly prone boxes they now use two screws)
    Likewise the solid grilles and even the side entry, after evidence was found of a couple of cases of kea using sticks to trigger the traps before attempting to open the top.

    Bonus super-long stoat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by time out View Post
    No doubt they love rabbit - but when using a cage I had plenty of catches using sardines
    Amazing how many times I have seen ferret road kill around sh2 bridges
    I have a Havahart cage trap set on a neighboring property. I had a salmon head in my freezer and in the process of putting it in the cage trap I have time out's quoted post above banging in my head... ferret and fish. First day nothing, second day I get a text to say there is a ferret in the trap...

    This is how common ferrets are in our area. 34 or so years ago I buy 12 doc 200 traps and make boxes for them. First one of these traps I set was checked the next morning and there is a dead ferret in the trap.. 30 years later I catch my second ferret and the one in the cage trap was no.4
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    I think I have written on here about catching a stoat and having the back end eaten thus having no tail for the H and F swamp comp... Well the other day I was checking one of my lines in the High country... There in the trap was a tail, the body had been eaten LOL.
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    Here are photos of cats in Timms traps. I've had three in the last month using a chicken drumstick attached to a wooden jig. there is also a 40mm spike that kills the cat immediately. shifting the trap around seems to help also. 6 cats this month 3 in tunnels 3 in Timms.

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    Two greedy mice raiding the same trap, one coming in, one going out. Couldn’t share the road, decided to climb over each-other instead. Unfortunately for them, they crossed over at the outside edge of the trigger plate and combined to provide enough pressure to trip it. One mouse sandwich with twice the filling.



    Also pulled a confused (now very flat) young bunny out of another DOC150 today. Second rabbit in a row in the same trap.
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    Attention: Kukuwai
    The photos show that I've made the entrance to the Timms larger and the spike screwed inside the kill bar. Using 5mm stainless steel threaded rod, cut to size sharpened at one end, bent at a right angle then screwed to the inside of the kill bar. The slot [is approx 4mm] in the wooden bait holder fits snuggly on the cross piece of the trigger. A chicken drumstick is attached with rubber bands [they can last 3 to 4 weeks before replacing] Make sure the trigger is 4mm thick wire some are thinner and are bloody useless. The bait holder could be oblong but with slots to stop the rubber band from slipping.

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    Cool cheers

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    Knew this one was buried somewhere there, but found it by accident on the way back down.

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    Don’t forget to get your swamp comp entries in this month!
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