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touchwood

Joined: 12 Jul 2009
Posts: 116
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 6:57 am Post subject: Fox trap

In the space of 1 hour yesterday evening a fox managed to get in and despatch all our table birds (14)

so my live and let live philosphy has just gone out the window and I'm gunning for it before it has the rest of the birds and the rabbits.

Can anyone recommend a good trap (there seem to be so many to choose from) and offer any tips. I don't have a gun myself but I know people that do and the way I feel at the moment I'll be quite happy to pull the trigger if I can just trap it.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 7:14 am Post subject:

Don't use one of those garbage-quality Trapman ones with the sliding door. The door jams and they're flimsy things.

I use the ones below, and they're effective, long-lasting and tough.

https://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/products/foxdog-trap

I usually bait with a bit of roast chicken attached to the string that causes the trap to fall, and also I use cat food as ground bait. They don't respond to dog food for some reason, but cat food has them coming in like nobody's business.

touchwood

Joined: 12 Jul 2009
Posts: 116
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 7:28 am Post subject:
Cheers Brownbear, was hoping you'd help out on this one

welsh veg grower

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 2030
Location: here today but tomorrow...

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 7:36 am Post subject:
Oh thats a shame, we had fox problems on Anglesey and hubby tried with a trap but only ever caught our cat who would go in there for the chicken we put in. Never tried with cat food (that really would have caught our cat) its worth a try, we resorted to calling in shooters and that worked well.

touchwood

Joined: 12 Jul 2009
Posts: 116
Location: Carmarthenshire

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 7:15 pm Post subject:
Foxes beware, I've just ordered the trap that you recommeded Brown Bear.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 7:43 pm Post subject:

We've caught 2 foxes with this particular trap but a few times it's been sprung ,the bait taken and the perp. escaped. I notice the traps they have started selling at our local feedstuff place is slightly longer and I think less chance of a tail stopping the gate closing fully perhaps--or not?. We've caught foxes,polecats,feral kittens and our neighbours dog in ours---it came out wagging it's tail happy as larry

---but I've never met a nasty golden retriever

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue May 25, 10 9:33 pm Post subject:

lottie wrote:

---but I've never met a nasty golden retriever

The lock bar that drops behind the gate would stop it being opened, and a fox would lump forward if it felt pressure behind. I suspect that it's either rats or stoats, eating the bait and pulling the trigger string. They could squeeze out through the bars.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Wed May 26, 10 1:43 pm Post subject:
by the feathers crows can eat ,spring and squeeze out of my one and if puss eats any more of nat's ducks it will not be catch and release

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Wed May 26, 10 2:28 pm Post subject:
Polecats can't squeeze through---but they are very very angry at being caught much more than the foxes the trap was set for.

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Thu May 27, 10 1:08 pm Post subject:
Prefer wires myself, but only in a rural environment. .

king rat

Joined: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 79

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 10 4:28 pm Post subject:
I use this type, very effective. I had a fox visit in the afternoon and do two of my hens, she paid the price that night though

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 10 4:32 pm Post subject:
that is the best picture iv seen in a while well done and hope you give it its just deserts

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 10 4:35 pm Post subject:

daddymatty82 wrote:

hope you give it its just deserts

I hope he killed it as quickly and painlessly as possible. I'm no bunny-hugger, but hate seeing the poor bloody thing cowering in that trap.

king rat

Joined: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 79

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 10 4:37 pm Post subject:
It was killed very humanely and quickly, it only cowered in the trap when it saw me, until then it was happilly eating the chicken I had used for bait

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 10 4:37 pm Post subject:
Flipping things - they are so beautiful and so destructive

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