Might have been illegal but nothing more impressive before the rabbits succumbed to haemorrhagic fever than watching the field collapse.It was always illegal if you didn’t empty the runs first...
Iirc Phostoxin is still available, but need a training certificate to be able to buy it, and crazy expensive now.
My dog caught one and tried to eat she started frothing at the mouth and spat it out and wiping her mouth on grass think there is something on the moles fur that causes this
Stick them in the freezer taxidermists will pay you for them.
They are already there along with the one from three years ago. Double bagged by my wife!!
It can be bought from certain online Chinese trading sites without a certificate, so I have been told.
Even rarer now
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Four hour cycles
You need to cut a spade the same width as the trap so the trap sits neatly down in the hole. Tamp the bottom of the trench with the spade handle. Always rub your hands in plenty of mole hill earth as takes your scent away.
Ditto. Have lost several traps over the years. I put a length of red baler twine on them so I have chance of seeing them when stolen. Have found two under hedges.
Happened to me a few years ago; just getting used to the superb success rate of Talpex traps and found I was one down. Went back over the field, checked my counting again, and then again, and finally found the hole I'd marked, with its stick down and empty... I assumed it had gone with a fox / badger and I'd not see it again; but a few months later I found it outside one of our badger setts about a hundred yards away, no worse for wear than the other traps I'd been using since. I also found the very rusted remains of an old gin trap outside the same sett last Summer, I guess it had been there for a few decades - not sure whether a predecessor had been trying to get the badgers, or the badgers had lifted the trap with something in it, no chain left on it.
