Coypu

[fellman 116]

Has anyone worked them?

are there any left in this country?

 

yis fellman

[donnyc 1,203]

Worked hundreds of them way back in the seventys eighties ..Used to do them with the old eastern counties otterhounds .No match for a decent terrier.However if you have a bayer they will chisel the dog ,whereas a hard terrier who went straight in made them holler a bit before they were finished .Good fun miss them days .

[Ossie 11]

it was my great aunts father who was responsible for the first lot of escapees, he had a fur farm at Mulbarton in norfolk, and had a few get out, started a wild population round that area. they've supposedly been eradicated from the broads, but i'm not sure... it's a fecking HUGE expanse of water & marshes, perfect coypu territory. some bits you can't even get too... i reckon there's still got to be a few about...

[Guest foxtrack]

i dont think there are any left in the country

my mate who hunts a pack of mink hounds told me he's seen terriers on them and they shy away

from the terrier no match atall so he said

[valerio 32]

we have loads of them here in Italy,not an interesting quarry but sometimes they can give the dog some nasty bites.I've never hunted them as I live on the hills and there are no coypus here,so it's only what I've heard from friends living on the coast.

[ddsr 0]

What are mink hounds? besides there are hounds that hunt mink. what size are they,where were they bred etc.

[Guest shay]

They are still here Felly mi duck, only in small numbers though, they will spread.

[donnyc 1,203]

What are mink hounds? besides there are hounds that hunt mink. what size are they,where were they bred etc.

Usually drafts from Foxhound kennels or welshhounds

[ddsr 0]

So mink hounds arent actually breed then?

[donnyc 1,203]

no mate

[DUCKWING 302]

WELL LADS ,

 

 

AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE NOW NEARING EIGHTY HAD BLOODY LOADS OF THEM , SAID THEY WERE NOT A MATCH FOR A DECENT DOG THOUGH GOOD FUN ALL THE SAME ....... HE ALSO HAD QUITE A FEW MUSKRAT , ANOTHER SPECIES WHICH ESCAPED ONLY TO BE ERADICATED BY GOVERMENT OFFICALS

 

ALL THE BEST

 

DUCKWING

[whin 463]

last one i know of getting killed was on the river alde 19 90 and 87 a freind killed one while ferreting with his lurher dog at the martela tower were i used to ferret before the bird santcuary took over,and treid to stop us nearlt two decades ago time bloody flies , iworked down at sizwell early nineties some ffond memories with muntjac fallow etc great area for deer and rabbits all the best , still give it a visit once a year mer aguy with a ferreting biz down there good guy , all the best

[stoaty 171]

a minkhound is a breed its the old otterhound although they usually have welsh hounds and english hounds etc in a pack

stoaty

Edited March 6, 2007 by stoaty

[mole trapper 1,693]

When i did a gassing course up in wiltshire it was being held by a man called jonn lill, from i think lincolnshire he said he was the main man with MAFF, who wiped them all out, he was selling off the cage traps, wish i had bought them now, but there you go hindsight is a wonderful thing.

[AKA-BRINDLE 879]

Coypus where a common sight on the broads in the late 70s most where trapped or shot cant say i know of anyone who seriously worked these over this way with dogs they inhabitated the reed beds marshes and dykes a nightmare for dogs(lost one of mine in the marshes for 3 long hours one october evening after Muntjak) last one i remember seeing alive in the wild was when out pike fishing in about 83.

I have no doubt that there are none left as these things are basically bloody great big rodents and breed like bloody big rodents and you would soon know if they was still about!

If anyone has pics of these being worked by dogs then post em up as i would be intersted in seeing them