can hares be caged trapped?

[NightRunner 0]

when we use fox urine. It's the salt in the urine that attracts the rabbits. They don't fear it like one would think

 

That's news to me, I was under the impression it was from a fresh dug hole, but more so to light of pan tension.

 

Keep the BS comming.

[moley 115]

when we use fox urine. It's the salt in the urine that attracts the rabbits. They don't fear it like one would think

 

That's news to me, I was under the impression it was from a fresh dug hole, but more so to light of pan tension.

 

Keep the BS comming.

 

i have read this quite a few times on different US trapping forums, are all those guys wrong also ?you seem to have a problem with vv , nightrunner , when you were getting stick about fox trapping,you threw your dummy out the cot , alot of the lads on here stuck up for you, now your having a go at another member its time chill out

[NightRunner 0]

Moley you are 100% right I did throw my dummy out.

 

When purchasing urine there are many types that people sell and doctor up also. Adding water glycirine and such. Pure fox urine is the color of black coffe, that has been meat fed. It is best collected from late Oct to mid March. Cathing rabbits in steel traps is due to poor urine and light pan tension.

 

Take a gallon of over the counter urine and freeze it you'll see. Many trapping items here in the US are just a bunch of bunk. Few don't know what they are buying or for that matter what they are talking about.

 

 

Part 2 Here in the US we sell are fur, many people can get on an internet forum and start spouting off numbers. That is not something that is taken lightly. There are very few number trappers out here and the trapping communtiy is very small. Everyone knows who makes the big catches. For a longline trapper compition is fierce all trying to put up numbers. Then someone says they are putting up 10k in snares alone so any fur trapper would add in another 10K in steel traps "that would include conibears also" from there early season trapping. So 20K of furbearers is some big numbers. VERY BIG

[Coote 5]

Our possums have quite nice fur. I classify them into two main types... the dark ones similar to the one shown in the picture below, and the silver-greys (which seem to be less common in my area).

 

At present, the best price I know of that one can get for a pelt is NZ$14, but most would sell for less. Currently we are being offered NZ$90 per kilo for plucked fur. It takes the fur from maybe 15 possums to make a kilogram. Possum fur is hollow which makes it fairly unique... and good for insulation. However I guess it also makes it frustratingly light when you are trying to get a few kilos of it.

 

And in case somebody doesn't already know, possums are classed as a major pest in New Zealand. They don't have any natural predators, and they eat tons of our bush.

 

[Mitch 0]

Interesting Stuff Nightrunner, I have read an article on Rabbits, now i am talking European Rabbits, the ones introduced into Australia. It has been tested and found out that Rabbits do not track down there food by scent, so adding and smelly numbers to bait or for lure is not going to attract them from my understanding. Anyone else experienced this.,

[TOMO 26,369]

Our possums have quite nice fur. I classify them into two main types... the dark ones similar to the one shown in the picture below, and the silver-greys (which seem to be less common in my area).

 

At present, the best price I know of that one can get for a pelt is NZ$14, but most would sell for less. Currently we are being offered NZ$90 per kilo for plucked fur. It takes the fur from maybe 15 possums to make a kilogram. Possum fur is hollow which makes it fairly unique... and good for insulation. However I guess it also makes it frustratingly light when you are trying to get a few kilos of it.

 

And in case somebody doesn't already know, possums are classed as a major pest in New Zealand. They don't have any natural predators, and they eat tons of our bush.

 

yes i was gobsmacked by the shear numbers of dead possoms on the road in N.Z on a reacent trip. they were evrywere.

 

very good question by the way . Trapping hares?

[Berkutchi 0]

I have seen a 4lb leveret in a rabbit live catch trap once and the bait was a slice sugar-beet!,they love it!

 

but to be fair it cut itself quite bad.