Urine and gland lures

[snareman 3]

Are you foot trapping???

 

I occasionally may use a foot trap.

 

My most common way of trapping possums is to set snares on propped poles or sloping branches. I use a lure to attract the animals to the trees where the snares are set.

 

I also might use the occasional baited cubby... and this may become more common when I trap in areas where there is a lack of suitable trees in which to set pole snares.

 

Although I haven't trapped a lot of hogs, I do use bait in a big swing-door cage trap.... or I may place bait/lure somewhere near a snare on a trail.

 

In my attempts to catch stoats, I use a steel clap-trap (almost like a big rat trap) under a wooden tunnel with a bait like an egg or a bit of rabbit. I'd like to have a good lure for these little nuisances.

 

Thanks... Coote.you don,t need any lure to catch stoats or weasels there are hundreds of thousands trapped over in uk. annually and we don,t need lure , give me a pm snareman.

[snareman 3]

I haven't seen any trees here with a sheet metal sleeve fixed around them to stop the possums climbing, but we do have a lot of sheet metal sleeves around our power poles. Darn possums will climb a pole and possibly touch two wires... and electrocute themselves. Nobody cares too much about the possums, but often they cause a power cut when it happens.

 

Brought home another wee hog this morning. I shot it just before dark last night. It ran off after I shot it, but I knew it was a good shot and it shouldn't go far. This morning I found it maybe 20 yards away in a patch of gorse. I got dead gorse spikes all over me. I cut it up and froze it this morning. About 17 hours would have passed between the time I shot it, and when I finally stuck it in the freezer. I fried up some chunks of its steak along with the heart and the kidneys this morning.... and dang it was delicious - and tender. It was accompanied by a heap of sliced home-grown tomatoes drizzled with french dressing. This year I've had my best crop of tomatoes ever. I grew 'moneymaker' plants from seed and they have done very well indeed.

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Catch you later.... Coote.woodga that coote is a greedy little bast... all those tomatoes and a hog , watch out for the trichinosis in those wild hogs

[Mitch 0]

what can i say, your real keen. Hogs can be trapped with footholds, i think MB 750 is big enough for feral pigs

[NightRunner 0]

Lot's of guys snare them, 1/8th inch cable. The fastest most productive way I have ever seen was a large live trap with an automatic feeder and waterer. They would also spray the area with a little desiel fuel or a soaked rag, there atracted to the smell.

[Coote 5]

Aye.... I do need more tomatoes on the plate, but I figured if I piled up the normal serving the meat wouldn't be seen in the photo.

 

I am concerned about trichinosis and I always take pains to cook pork well, and to encourage other people to cook it well. I do not recommend barbequeing it, or cooking a whole pig on a spit... it is too easy to have undercooked portions (but people do it all the time, so the risk must be minimal). I am interested in making salami and this uses raw pork. I've researched the subject a bit. My missus plays music with a lady from a family that makes salami professionally. I quizzed them up about it, and I was told that if you freeze pork at a minimum certain temperature for a minimum time it is meant to kill the trichinea (or whatever the correct spelling is). I also heard that a sufficient concentration of salt for a minimum time will do the job, but I can't vouch for the correctness of this statement. I think, basically, that if you freeze pork well for three weeks you are safe.... but if you are thinking of doing this it would pay to check the information yourself. Hmmmm..... salami and tomatoes .

 

I would just love to try some foothold traps for these little pigs...I think that even our normal possum footholds would work. Unfortunately there are other things around that we don't want to catch in footholds so I have to just think about it. A buddy has a cage trap in the particular spot I've been working in....and I've even seen a pig in the trap.... but he has failed to catch one as far as I know.

 

I built a permanent cage trap on some family property. It isn't big, but we've had quite a bit of pork from it. It was an open-topped enclosure until a neighbor had an underwear-soiling experience with a pig leaping out of the trap right next to him (I think he was trying to stick it with one of those Opinel pocket knives at the time ). He gave us an old gate that we've tied in place as a roof. The trap has a door which swings down from inside. I must try that diesel idea... we sure have plenty of that around down there because our tractor, generators and the boat all run on the stuff.

 

Here's the cage trap, and one of the pigs: