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[si brown 8,486]

1 hour ago, shovel leaner said:

Has anyone seen any cubs on top yet , cos I haven’t yet . I usually start seeing them first week in May as a rule .

You can’t really tell from this as it’s a shot of a vid I filmed last night.. was just getting dark and 280 yard away with the pard.. but that’s mum and 7 cubs were running about, ive been watching them 3 weeks now, I saw a badger go in the den the other week and what a racket.. thought they’d all be dead but billy must of got his arse kicked.. they’ve Relocated to a new den about 130 yrd further up the hedge line and Billy’s no longer about

[si brown 8,486]

44 minutes ago, Stavross said:

The lad I know that shoots in York told me that for every fox he shoots on the chicken farm he will shoot 6 on the pig farm, he said it’s not uncommon to see between 4 and 6 in the same field, I’ve only been there once with him about 6 or 7 years ago and we seen 5 and shot 4 of them and he said that was an average, the places I shoot ( even the sheep farm ) if you get a couple you have had a cracking night

this place doesn't hold big numbers, you'll have a flurry mid summer but its basically the cubs then just randoms after that!

think there just after easy meals with having mouths to feed cos the majority of foxes taken on there are on the back fields taking rabbits and ground game.. 

saw more foxes on the chicken farm this winter when out for the early goose fights than the pig farms but theres shoots all round where I live so I dont know why they bother with the chickens and its well secure, unless one makes it over the fence theres no way a fox is getting in. 

[ianm 2,594]

16 hours ago, Stavross said:

If they have a taste for bacon and are taking out 50 porkers then death is the only option, that must be some cost to loose that amount of stock

I live on the edge of a village six miles south of a town. Last year north of the town a farmer thought it would be a good idea to put a myxy rabbit or two down to clear rabbits. Well the number of lambs that all the farmers lost was phenomenal. The foxes had to feed cubs and due to no rabbits the next best thing was lambs.  

[SheepChaser 8,089]

On 23/04/2020 at 13:15, Sausagedog said:

No one gets the violins out for a rabbit or a rat shot suckling young

No but to be honest it’s mostly the air gun super hero’s who shoot rabbits in the summer. A lot of other folk let them be for a bit. Never really got that wirh the air rifle gang, never see much from them in winter but soon as the suns out it’s always lines of wee baby bunnies that have been flattened......

[Stavross 16,510]

Back at the small holding and fingers crossed for a better evening, I’ve decided to try the back field first with the caller, if I have no success here I’ll wait until dark and head closer to the house, hopefully something will show up

[Stavross 16,510]

3 hours sat in a field and it paid off, not the biggest dog but it’s been chewing its way through a few chickens, no sign of any others but I’ve no doubt I’ll be back in the future

Edited April 25, 2020 by Stavross

[Stavross 16,510]

[shovel leaner 7,650]

7 hours ago, Stavross said:

3 hours sat in a field and it paid off, not the biggest dog but it’s been chewing its way through a few chickens, no sign of any others but I’ve no doubt I’ll be back in the future

Well done , patients usually pays off . Particularly when you know the ground has a few about . What call did you use ?

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Well done Stav. I saw nowt. Walked for miles to.

I'm glad at this time of year. Pheasant eggs everywhere! Hopefully a few hens will go broody. Already had reports of a hatch.

[ianm 2,594]

Well done! I have had a call from someone i shoot foxes for regularly. Apparently one of his neighbours has had a lamb killed in a building and the lamb was seven or eight weeks old. So i am thinking big dog fox feeding vixen and cubs.   

[forest of dean redneck 11,791]

23 minutes ago, ianm said:

Well done! I have had a call from someone i shoot foxes for regularly. Apparently one of his neighbours has had a lamb killed in a building and the lamb was seven or eight weeks old. So i am thinking big dog fox feeding vixen and cubs.   

Really that's not good is it, hope you get That one sorted quick. 

[Stavross 16,510]

2 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

Well done , patients usually pays off . Particularly when you know the ground has a few about . What call did you use ?

Tried them all, rabbit, pheasant, lone lamb it came in to field mouse but it wasn’t that interested in the call

 

39 minutes ago, ianm said:

Well done! I have had a call from someone i shoot foxes for regularly. Apparently one of his neighbours has had a lamb killed in a building and the lamb was seven or eight weeks old. So i am thinking big dog fox feeding vixen and cubs.   

That needs killing, I’m with you that sounds like a large dog, an 8 week old lamb is a big animal for a fox to take, I suppose been in a building it could of cornered it

don't know why I couldn’t upload the picture direct from my phone

[Baldcoot 2,352]

49 minutes ago, ianm said:

Well done! I have had a call from someone i shoot foxes for regularly. Apparently one of his neighbours has had a lamb killed in a building and the lamb was seven or eight weeks old. So i am thinking big dog fox feeding vixen and cubs.   

If he,s raiding barns might be a candidate for a close up with a shotgun ,if he,s not afraid to come indoors for his meal or a go with the distressed lamb call before he gets there .Good luck he,s a definate candidate for the muck pile 

[Stavross 16,510]

1 minute ago, Baldcoot said:

If he,s raiding barns might be a candidate for a close up with a shotgun ,if he,s not afraid to come indoors for his meal or a go with the distressed lamb call before he gets there .Good luck he,s a definate candidate for the muck pile 

Or a baseball bat, go mental

[Sausagedog 7,381]

29 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Or a baseball bat, go mental

Not in the conditions of use mate target only.