Baiting For Charles

[JohnGalway 1,043]

I am considering doing a bit of baiting for my good friend Charles before Spring time. However I don't wish to use, and besides am not allowed as it's a working farm (dead pits not allowed here neither), carcasses etc.

 

Something rather unnoticeable that can be thrown or spilt onto the ground would do, if it works.

 

I read somewhere used fryer oil, does it work? A bit of cat food mushed in for variety perhaps.

 

My friend is a great believer in the theory that birds draw foxes, as in they hear/see them circling and making a racket, like over a carcass.

 

I was thinking of using something like watery dough mixed with red food dye, look a bit like bloody brains on the ground.

 

What works folks?

[fitchet 788]

Have a look online for carp bait flavouring. Just choose a couple that you think will work.

[Deker 3,478]

Dog food biscuits.

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Dog food biscuits.

 

Badger sett near by. Any time I baited a live catch trap with dog biscuits I'd have a feckin black & white in in the morning.

[air gun ant 1,666]

Not tried it myself but I've read (probably on here) that tins of sardines/pilchards etc

[Deker 3,478]

 

Dog food biscuits.

 

Badger sett near by. Any time I baited a live catch trap with dog biscuits I'd have a feckin black & white in in the morning.

 

 

 

Ha Ha, yeah, and some of the birds like them as well.

 

I often use the biscuits in domestic gardens, the small stuff like the old Pedigree Chum Mixer, works a treat and no mess or smells or dead rabbits bodies for the residents to get upset about. Spread a few around in an area and you have the foxes undivided attention for a few minutes whilst you pick your shot. It's also great to not have to keep checking an area during the evening, you just wait until you hear the crunch of the biscuits being eaten.

 

Out of curiosity what is the Badger story in your part of the world, I'm confused over their protected, or not, status your way. I know there have been TB related culls, are they on the hit list?

 

[alan81 110]

badger are protected here since the 70s but I don't know why because the department of agriculture have hit them so hard in the last few years you would think they were trying to wipe them out altogether.

[StephenWalsh 73]

Cat food (dry) works a treat in my area.

[Billy Warren 43]

my mate has had the same problem he's using dog bisect and a liver fishing oil socket it stinks to hi heaven you don't need a lot of the oil and don't get it on youre hands

[The one 8,463]

I used plastic tubs filled with rabbit guts fill 3/4 full put the lid on and leave outside for a week or so ,take them to where you want them and pierce a few holes in the lid i usually put them on a run then a fox snare either side of them

[charlie caller 3,654]

Get a tin or two of sardines ect, attach the tin to a tree trunk or post with a cable tie, knock a couple of holes in the tin so that the oil just drips out, and put a bit of fishy cat food underneath, he will come for the cat food then lick away at the tin, if you can find out what time he is coming sit and wait, on with the lamp, and bang goodbye charles, it works well, the trick is to find out what time he is coming, the modern way would be with a trail cam, the old fashioned way is with a cheap alarm clock with some bait attached to it with a bit of fishing line, when he takes the bait, the clock stops, hey presto, you have your time

[hutchey 147]

I must be doing something wrong as i have a few round here and 1 in particular that seems to like calling for me!

Last night, just gone 11 and i'm in bed, knackered. Mrs says "do you hear that?" "Hear what, says me", almost asleep.

"Your fox is calling for you", she replies.

Guess what, it is only back in the rear garden waiting there!

I feel like i've had a friendly relationship with this thing, given all the times i've been out squeaking at it, then it back at me.

So tonight is the night, 243 at the ready, wind seems right at the moment and i can upset the cat by stealing her food and off i go, lamp in hand.

[charlie caller 3,654]

Good luck, but I think the moon might give the game away if your not careful, facemask and gloves back to a hedge.

[hutchey 147]

i have just the spot

[JohnGalway 1,043]

 

 

 

They're protected species here, can't touch'em. They dig up my grass in Spring and killed my friends hens before when one stumbled into the hen house.

 

No TB cull in my part of Ireland but I know our Dept used to kill them in places.

 

They're as common as greycrows and magpies around me tbh.