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[EskdaleHawks 8]

I just chuck them in long grass, or a bush.

Where abouts in the country are you? There are many Falconers/Bird of Prey keepers who woul be more than happy to take snared or head shot Rabbits!

[theinvisiblescarecrow 0]

I can just imadgine how many are thinking where is this guy, I'd have the rabbits off him.

Dog, ferret, even cat food.

Bait for Fox or corvids.

Food for humans.

I can think of a very long list of uses.

I can think of only one word for throw away.

Ok other creatures might eat them but my word is waste.

If your local I'll pick them up.

My mate has ferrets, there's a local Falconry center & i have a dog & 3 cats.

Sods law says your too far away.

Offer them in the sale section for free to anyone who'll collect.

As you'r a member of this forum, do you hunt, fish or shoot as well ?

[neil cooney 10,416]

To remove pests from the farmers farm is this mans first priority. With a bit of searching he could probably find a use for his rabbits. If your picking up early in the morning fly damage should be prevented.

Often the arguement that we are harvesting a free healthy food source is used to justify our killing of game. To say we throw it in the ditch is damaging.

Over here we have the problem of pigeon shooters throwing their birds into a ditch. Often in their 100s. Photos of this crop up in the press now and again.

Anyways, I'm very suspicious of someone who says they knows how to set a snare but has never eaten Rabbit. To read his first post it looks like he set a few snares, not exactly vermin control.

I'd be ashamed to say I snare Rabbits but don't eat them or know how to deal with them.

[EskdaleHawks 8]

To remove pests from the farmers farm is this mans first priority. With a bit of searching he could probably find a use for his rabbits. If your picking up early in the morning fly damage should be prevented.

Often the arguement that we are harvesting a free healthy food source is used to justify our killing of game. To say we throw it in the ditch is damaging.

Over here we have the problem of pigeon shooters throwing their birds into a ditch. Often in their 100s. Photos of this crop up in the press now and again.

Anyways, I'm very suspicious of someone who says they knows how to set a snare but has never eaten Rabbit. To read his first post it looks like he set a few snares, not exactly vermin control.

I'd be ashamed to say I snare Rabbits but don't eat them or know how to deal with them.

Well said!

[East coast 2]

[assasin8or 0]

I just chuck them in long grass, or a bush.

it is things like this that give us all a bad name

on eny of my permmision if the land owner found me to be leaving the dead lying arround i would be down the road

[glass22 0]

Ok a few things

 

1. I set 20 peg snares, 15 fence snares, over 3 acers of land.

2. It's purely pest control, I don't eat them, I don't want them, I just want them to stop causing damage.

3. I am the land owner, I'm not giving anyone a bad name or even on permission.

 

Rabbits are a big pest problem for me, one that I'm solving.

 

It's no different that someone killing mice in their house.

 

The rabbit doesn't give a shit what happends once it's dead, I don't think he really cares if he's getting eaten or thrown in a ditch....it's dead.

 

Though shooting and snaring I'm down 26 rabbits.

[stubby 175]

The rabbit doesn't give a shit what happends once it's dead, I don't think he really cares if he's getting eaten or thrown in a ditch....it's dead.

 

so having respect for the quarry dos'ent even come into it,

even in pest control, whatever pest is being hunted, we bag and dispose of correctly,

[IanB 0]

I've been on places were farmers say leave them were you've shot them, I've also been on places were the farmers go mad if your not making money from selling them on.. 90% of the catch I get I either sell or pass on to friends or family for eating mostly or for ferrets and hawks, but there is times when no one wants them, the freezers full yet they still need controlling, so some do get made into compost for want of a better word... For anyone snaring/trapping this time of year, they do get fly blown very easily, I'm travelling 40 mile some places every day over a week, if I check them crack of dawn and last thing on the afternoon, there still going to be fly blown the next day... Plus there going to be blown up with the heat and their guts sitting in for any length of time... I'm not a fan of wasting any animal that can be eaten, but sometimes it comes down to necessity, or just stopping altogether till winter, but that doesn't work when theres a genuine problem... What someone chooses to do is not my business buts its defintely not something to brag about....

[Dosser 52]

Ok a few things

 

1. I set 20 peg snares, 15 fence snares, over 3 acers of land.

2. It's purely pest control, I don't eat them, I don't want them, I just want them to stop causing damage.

3. I am the land owner, I'm not giving anyone a bad name or even on permission.

 

Rabbits are a big pest problem for me, one that I'm solving.

 

It's no different that someone killing mice in their house.

 

The rabbit doesn't give a shit what happends once it's dead, I don't think he really cares if he's getting eaten or thrown in a ditch....it's dead.

 

Though shooting and snaring I'm down 26 rabbits.

 

 

Then i've lost track of your thread. . . . why are you moaning about a fox raiding your snare line ?

[glass22 0]

I wasn't complaining just writing what had happend.

[bullet 125]

glass22 just carry on what you are doing mate, atleast your learning the game, many wouldnt even be able to catch game let alone remove their keyboard warrior fingers to get out side, rabbits are pests, ask how many folk gut rabbits in the field to make their load lighter? and mutter mr fox will have that, the bloody guts they wont even give their ferret/dog/bird,

leaving a full/part rabbit behind will give the song birds abreak this time of the year as maggies and crows will have them instead of young chicks,

atb bullet

[micky 3,325]

glass22 just carry on what you are doing mate, atleast your learning the game, many wouldnt even be able to catch game let alone remove their keyboard warrior fingers to get out side, rabbits are pests, ask how many folk gut rabbits in the field to make their load lighter? and mutter mr fox will have that, the bloody guts they wont even give their ferret/dog/bird,

leaving a full/part rabbit behind will give the song birds abreak this time of the year as maggies and crows will have them instead of young chicks,

atb bullet

The trouble you have with leaving bits of rabbit ,and guts all over the place is ,you encourage foxs,magpies,and crows into the area ,then, when they have finished the little treats you have left them,they start eating the little chicks on that patch of land.

[glass22 0]

glass22 just carry on what you are doing mate, atleast your learning the game, many wouldnt even be able to catch game let alone remove their keyboard warrior fingers to get out side, rabbits are pests, ask how many folk gut rabbits in the field to make their load lighter? and mutter mr fox will have that, the bloody guts they wont even give their ferret/dog/bird,

leaving a full/part rabbit behind will give the song birds abreak this time of the year as maggies and crows will have them instead of young chicks,

atb bullet

The trouble you have with leaving bits of rabbit ,and guts all over the place is ,you encourage foxs,magpies,and crows into the area ,then, when they have finished the little treats you have left them,they start eating the little chicks on that patch of land.

 

Or the fox starts eating rabbits and rats...what a shame that would be...

[bullet 125]

glass22 just carry on what you are doing mate, atleast your learning the game, many wouldnt even be able to catch game let alone remove their keyboard warrior fingers to get out side, rabbits are pests, ask how many folk gut rabbits in the field to make their load lighter? and mutter mr fox will have that, the bloody guts they wont even give their ferret/dog/bird,

leaving a full/part rabbit behind will give the song birds abreak this time of the year as maggies and crows will have them instead of young chicks,

atb bullet

The trouble you have with leaving bits of rabbit ,and guts all over the place is ,you encourage foxs,magpies,and crows into the area ,then, when they have finished the little treats you have left them,they start eating the little chicks on that patch of land.

ever wonderd why you are called micky nomates? tell me then micky nomates what happens to all the foxes that are shot/dug to or snared?

a lad who flies his harris hawk with us feed foxes to his bird when its in moult,

on the last note ian b has posted twice on this thread giving his opinion, thats not enough?

atb bullet

p.s. ian i honestly dont know how you do it mate, i defo take my hat off to you