Thread: traps

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Please tell me where do you buy the new traps...I am sure someone said H&F or maybe it was Farmlands???

You can get a free one at H&F with a kilo of possom fur

Originally Posted by Dundee

Are you on Ngamatea or Mangohane? 50 traps seems light for a block that big....just curious

Scribe's farm which he bought off the dwarf.

Cool!!

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Uplander,
been doing a bit of reading, think we should start out with trap set 200m apart on the lines.
If we start with 35 traps for the mo we should be good and then adjust as the rest of the block gets openned up.
Any decisions on type of trap there seems to have been a few different suggestions here?

thats the problem when you ask for advise on something, you get everyone telling you what traps they use and then its back to square 1 of not knowing what to use because there so many options...more confused now than i was before...lol. Im going over the hill to see splash on the weekend, hes a ranger at shakespear park so i presume he uses traps for work, cheers everyone else for your advise , heaps of different options

i found this usefull

Rat Traps New Zealand

anyone got these

POSSUM #1 LEG-HOLD TRAPS x 10 TRAPS | Trade Me

You need to focus on the full suite of predators in order to maximise your trapping effort and provide the birds with the best chance for survival. Im fucked for time at the moment, so will add more tomorrow or the weekend. But basically DoC 200 or DoC 250 traps for rats, hedgehogs, weasels, stoats and ferrets. Timms possum traps baited with meat to target cats from August to February (when hen is nesting or pults are on the ground). The rest of the year, the Timms are baited to target possums.

Pete Devlin from the Waterfowl Enhancement Trust is a guru when it comes to this shit. He works on a grid-network of traps, at 100m intervals, but refines the exact location depending on environment i.e. no point putting on in the middle of a paddock of grass, when there is a handy bit of bush 30m away. Predators a concentrated on the fringes, so focus your efforts there....edge of tracks, interface between forestry and pasture, edges of creeks,.....anything that is a natural corridor.

cheers Mitch

Originally Posted by upnorth uplander

anyone got these

POSSUM #1 LEG-HOLD TRAPS x 10 TRAPS | Trade Me

Unless your volunteering to check those every day we aren't using them

Originally Posted by gqhoon

You need to focus on the full suite of predators in order to maximise your trapping effort and provide the birds with the best chance for survival. Im fucked for time at the moment, so will add more tomorrow or the weekend. But basically DoC 200 or DoC 250 traps for rats, hedgehogs, weasels, stoats and ferrets. Timms possum traps baited with meat to target cats from August to February (when hen is nesting or pults are on the ground). The rest of the year, the Timms are baited to target possums.

Pete Devlin from the Waterfowl Enhancement Trust is a guru when it comes to this shit. He works on a grid-network of traps, at 100m intervals, but refines the exact location depending on environment i.e. no point putting on in the middle of a paddock of grass, when there is a handy bit of bush 30m away. Predators a concentrated on the fringes, so focus your efforts there....edge of tracks, interface between forestry and pasture, edges of creeks,.....anything that is a natural corridor.

Uplander is helping me with a plan to clean up the pests in the forest now its being logged, so any ideas are welcome.

Stu

Hey Uplander if you see this Sunday will be the better day to come over i have a group in planting some trees tomorrow untill about 2:30 so you could also come round after that

after meeting splash today , im sold on the DOC 200s, real easy to set and monitor

Were they in the timber boxes or the polyethylene?

timber boxes

ha doc 200s take no prisoners

watch ya hands