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    proper job, you don,t want a shed like mine as its standing room only , i,m waiting on woodga and duckwing coming up to clear it out for me to take all these snares away , by the way whats wrong screwing a modified rat trap to the post , cheap , light and easy , and effective no chewed posts , dead squirrel. Tis true,a MK6fenn or Magnum in a wooden box-tunnel,mesh one end and restricted entrance t'other,few peanuts,hung on a fence ...works very well but you have to be aware o the customers'and neighbours'sensibilities.The box-tunnel is essential to stop birds ,cats etc investigating and
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    Fish, I accept you may have caught rats in this way, this thread was referring to squirrels, and as someone who uses these traps as a professional I do not want them to be taken away from me, which they will be if the powers that be decide that the people who use them cannot be trusted or bothered to set the things properly.
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    Aaron. I don't think this would be a legal or humane way to use a Fenn trap. Fenns should be used in a tunnel where the height is restricted to prevent the target species from being catapulted out of the jaws resulting in a leg hold or similar. Leg hold traps are illegal in the UK, and I'm sure there will be people visiting this site, who don't have our best interests at heart. We owe it to the animals we trap, to stick to the law, and always treat them humanely. Regards ian. the idea of putting your fen in a tunnel is to keep non target species out Aaron's method is spot on. but if
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    I use these usually at permanent sets, they are heavy and you cannot carry more than two at any one time, but given a coat of preservative they will last for years, you can take the chain off the Fenn and once it has been triggered it cannot be pulled out as the inner hole is only 2" square. I tend to use bodygrips for short term trapping as easier and quicker to set.
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    And no feckin comments on the state of my shed I hope to get it like Snaremans one day
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    Donks, I saw that pic on the UKPCO site, as someone has already remarked some customers will not be happy when the fence is shredded like that, Ditch soon saw the solution, and I would have thought the inventor would have discovered that before they went on sale, as you say they are not cheap, however I can see a use for them, as different customers want different things.
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    I would'nt mind betting it will, if I bought one I would certainly do it.
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    Stick a fenn in the feed give em a suprise when they chew threw. On my feed hoppers that the pheasants are fed threw i stick a tunne under them with a mk4 fenn trap placed they pick up a good few. Erm, well I'm sure thats great advice, but I dont understand a word of that Whats a tunne?... I think I sound a right muppet Lloyd means a tunnel, something like this Will give results like this
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    Well done, it would have to be someone from Cornwall, I was in my 20's and had long moved from home before I learnt that a grammersow was a woodlouse.
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    Neal, laying is all down to daylight and protein. In the winter I used to put a light in the hen house to come on at 3am in the morning, and just kept feeding layers mash, but as Foxdropper says after they moult and come back into lay they will not be quite as prolific, thats why the commercial people get rid of after 1 season. Just as an aside, the unit that I do has just changed flocks, after adding up the cull birds and what they had known to have lost over the season, they were 700+ birds down, foxes and badgers being the culprits.
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    Does any one here know what a "grammersow" is.
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    At one time I used to keep a few layers and broilers. I used to hang sheeps heads up for them all through the summer months, they loved those maggots. My wife used too sell the eggs to the "trendy" mums at the school gate, they all used to say they were the best eggs they'ed ever had but she did'nt dare tell them what we fed them on. Also with the broilers I used too get 50 day olds from an intensive unit down the road, kept them on a straw covered yard with a shed at one end. Fed them on chick crumbs to start, then anything I could lay my hands on, wheat, oats, barley,potatoes. Come the day,
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    Kay, on the unit I spoke of everything is auto. At this time of year light comes on auto at 4 am, there is an alarm bell that rings 5mins before the feed belts are operational, this bell conditions the birds to get to the feed troughs when it rings, I believe this is one of the reasons they never stray to far from the shed, hatches open auto at 8. As dusk falls, when the last "dinner" bell goes the hatches will also automatically close after a set time. Lighting will go off slowly by dimmer switch. All the eggs are collected by a conveyor belt, the feeding periods and light are all delivered s
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    There's one on fleabay now, Swanndri Stalker Jacket, item no 280190038393
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    I service a "free range egg" chicken unit, 16,000 birds in one shed. I call at different times of the day all though the year, I have never seen more than a few hundred out at any one time, and thats in the middle of summer. They must have 20acres to roam over but rarely seem to move more than 50yds from the shed, I personally think that many of them never go out, just stay where theres food water and warmth. It's free range Ditch but not as we know it.
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    Used to refer to them as Jaspers in Cornwall. I did two nests in December, definately not young queens, both nests were still very active, not summer numbers, but regular traffic, toing and froing.
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    I was looking at the avatar as well.
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    Just echoing Ditch, here. It's okay to think £90 a job, wow, money for old rope. I'll tell you all something now, times will be hard especially in the first year or two, and don't think that the average farmer will be paying you that amount per hour. And if you've got a wife, children, mortgage etc., think long and hard, your wife and kids won't thank you when they're living on the poverty line, and you've lost your house, "but it's ok cause Dad loves his job".
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    you can't beat wild birds, but what was the dress code, "japanese sniper"
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    Just to say thank you to Woodga, he knows what for, top bloke, and Strong Stuff, I will be sure to use you again mate.
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    I'm thinking that these tunnel traps are mainly in use during the nesting/rearing season when predator control is best practised. I only run my trap line from 1st March to 1st Sept, then traps are lifted, either this keeper has sprung them because he cannot inspect them every day through the winter or he's got a do gooder wandering aroung springing them .
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    Keepers love doing things the hard way, they ai'nt happy unless they've shovelled a couple of cwt soil to set a trap. That should stir 'em up a bit
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    Glad you're back safe & sound Nik.
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    If you're a trapper, that feeling of tension and excitement that starts in the pit of your stomach as you approach a set and ends with a satisfied smile and a grunt of satisfaction as you see your chosen quarry in your trap/snare equals all the fun you will have with your terrier and smoker.
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    Another masterclass from Snareman, thank you.
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