Drop box visitors

[Pigeon Controller 1]

I have a rabbit proof fence(not) along a railway on a ten acre on my permission. early this year I put ten wire single catch rabbit traps out on the holes in the fence. They worked I caught rabbits, partridge, pheasant and hedgehogs. I am thinking to instal some drop boxes what else may I catch Mink,Hedghogs,fox cubs? or will the trap door support lighter vermin and only catch rabbits?

 

Pigeon Controller

[Bobba_fett 117]

i'v heard of people catching stoats and mink, never a fox cub tho

[Teesdale-rabbiter 15]

I think it would depend on the size of the tunnel and trap door I have had a ferret in one of mine before but not a mink have heard of hedge hogs & mink, polecats in em

[heritage 202]

no one can really give you the answers your looking for, the whole thing comes down to the dropbox design and manufacture. if its a home made job you intend to use you would be able to counterbalance the drop plate to a weight thats more suited to a specific target species but if its a commercially produced box then there generally set fine. If i remember right ,the leader drop boxes produced by lauderdale engineering have a trip weight of approx 8oz.

[Pigeon Controller 1]

no one can really give you the answers your looking for, the whole thing comes down to the dropbox design and manufacture. if its a home made job you intend to use you would be able to counterbalance the drop plate to a weight thats more suited to a specific target species but if its a commercially produced box then there generally set fine. If i remember right ,the leader drop boxes produced by lauderdale engineering have a trip weight of approx 8oz.

 

 

Thats great thanks for the info

 

Pigeon Controller

[nod 285]

anything that will fit through the tunnel will fall in the box including cubs