Out of season lamping

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I go at the rabbits all year round with the dogs, ferrets and air rifle as does the other guy that shoot over the same with a rimfire and still there is damage crop, we've had horses breaking legs in rabbit holes.

 

I don't think some folk realise what numbers of rabbits, foxes some folk have to contend with.

 

As keeper I would kill every fox, stoat mink, feral cat I could whether cubs, adults whatever that was my job, by getting permission to hunt on ground the farmer/landowner is expecting some reduction in number of pests. You do what it takes to achieve this whilst trying to be as humane as possible.

 

On the other side of the coin I have Salukis litrally climbing the walls needing to hunt. 7 dogs and 17 ferrets to feed plus myself and family. What are we to do go veggie through the summer months?

 

This is life for all wild animals, every minute of every day they pit their wits and take their chances.

Why dont you just get a job and go to the shops for food like anyone else youre not Tarzan for christsake.

Yes and have you ever thought how that food is produced, your meat,eggs, milk and veg is farmed and i reckon those farmers have had to do some vermin control.

Sorry love I have explained a few times im not talking about control but going out for sport.Get youre husband to explain it better for you.

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My partner reckons its 15 rabbits to one cow and him and his dad reckon due to the mild weather we have here in the the south hams there is no actual breeding season for rabbits anymore. Its seems the rabbits are at it all year now.

Well if thats what the men have told you it must be right mustnt it.

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Until I came on this site I never realised how many people not only lamp it seems all spring and summer but also are not in anyway ashamed of it or make any attempt to keep it quiet. To me its a matter of playing fair and letting the quarry rear there young and live the good life until battle commences once again in the autumn.I suppose some of them are fare weather men.The real winter just to much them.What possible good can come from killing during the breeding season?

 

 

well as for lamping in the closed season as you put it .on rabbit their is not one look it up and you will find an awnswer .rabbits breed almost year round now with all the changes in weather .and rabbits are a pest that need controll if you saw some of my permission me being their 7 days a week wouldnt iradicate them and all they do is ruin the landowner land he works for a living

tHERE IS NO SEASON ON HARE OR FOX EITHER AND I WILL SAY AGAIN IAM TALKING ABOUT SPORT NOT CONTROL.KEEP UP

 

but ... .... ... for alot of people thats what its about - CONTROL OF THE POPULATION .

Dont mean to sound rude but thats rubbish you make it sound like a public service.The control is a bye product of our enjoyment.

[victor 10]

less varmin, here all year round is fox hare rabbit season.

if you kill 1 pregnant rabbit, then you kill 6 more to come.

best thing for farmers and so on.

What are you interested in Sport or what is good for farmers?

both mate

[Guest ooty]

Fu*k you farmers make me laugh.you get more money for nothing with your set aside and hedgerows headland sceams,etc and are a bigger scurge on the tax payer than all the people on benifits in the country put together,there wouldnt be a countryside if you lot wernt PAID to own it. the 70s proved that when you ploughed all the hedgrows out that had been there for hundreds of years and made east anglia into one big corn feild.then drew millions off the government to put them back and maintain them .how meny 1000s of pounds are the massize john deer tractors and fast tracks?,the brand new four wheel drives your fat wives go shopping in etc? all written off agianst the tax you hardly seem ever to have to pay! yet you moan bout a few rabbits eating a bit of grass,its more common knowage these days that your taught to repeat yourselves as spoilt kids to say "oh us poor farmers or there aint no money in farming"you dont no what hard times means and most of you shouldnt be allowed to own or be responsable for the countryside as your only intrest in it is money.i wont be asking your permision to hunt YOUR lands for my food agian this year,

Edited July 15, 2008 by ooty

[Guest gaz100604]

Fu*k you farmers make me laugh.you get more money for nothing with your set aside and hedgerows headland sceams,etc and are a bigger scurge on the tax payer than all the people on benifits in the country put together,there wouldnt be a countryside if you lot wernt PAID to own it. the 70s proved that when you ploughed all the hedgrows out that had been there for hundreds of years and made east anglia into one big corn feild.then drew millions off the government to put them back and maintain them .how meny 1000s of pounds are the massize john deer tractors and fast tracks?,the brand new four wheel drives your fat wives go shopping in etc? all written off agianst the tax you hardly seem ever to have to pay! yet you moan bout a few rabbits eating a bit of grass,its more common knowage these days that your taught to repeat yourselves as spoilt kids to say "oh us poor farmers or there aint no money in farming"you dont no what hard times means and most of you shouldnt be allowed to own or be responsable for the countryside as your only intrest in it is money.i wont be asking your permision to hunt YOUR lands for my food agian this year,

 

 

i agree with every word of this and was thinking along the same lines as i trawled through this thread. farmers are moaning misers always preaching the poor mouth. show me a poor farmer ill show you where i keep my flying pigs

[Terrier man 38]

Dont rabbits alone cost the farming industrys millions each year they should want us in earlyer and earlyer.....

Edited July 15, 2008 by Terrier man

[Guest ooty]

Dont rabbits alone cost the farming industrys millions each year they should want us in earlyer and earlyer.....

most large farmers that have rabbit problems just have a profesional pest control service on yearly contract to gas them,then the cost of the pest control co,is set off agianst tax.it the tax payer the rabbit realy hits,not the farmer.most who sit in parlment and friends own most of this green and plesant land.laws are made to suit themselves and keep the avarage bod in the dark thinking. oh poor farmer.long gone is the poor farmer,,his sold his farm to the rich!!! Edited July 15, 2008 by ooty

[Guest Leveller]

[most large farmers that have rabbit problems just have a profesional pest control service on yearly contract to gas them

 

Isn't gas banned?

[Guest ooty]

[most large farmers that have rabbit problems just have a profesional pest control service on yearly contract to gas them

 

Isn't gas banned?

cymag is as its oderless and you dont know your sniffing it till is to late but phostoxin is whats most widely used and it stinks so you know when your getting a wiff,leagley to use it a resperater mask has to be worn and to obtain phostoxin you have to have a poison licance,a two week course at most agricultural collages will get you the licence.

[Guest Leveller]

So it's not then

[Guest ooty]

NO

[alimac 882]

one mans needs for pest control is a reason for another mans sport, plain and simple, end of.... edited to add .... no matter what time of year

Edited July 15, 2008 by alimac

[Guest ooty]

after working in pest control for a liveing,on the rabbit side of it. to keep an employer happy you would rarely get the chance to use a dog, maybe to bush them to ground?,sometimes when able to ferret but then the holes would have to be gased at the end of the day and any left on top shot that night then round the estate agian a few days later with the gas for any missed,unfortuneatly one man and the best lurcher is not going to eradicate a plague of rabbits down to the satisfaction of whoevers paying the bill.lurchers are for sport as far as controling rabbits goes.

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after working in pest control for a liveing,on the rabbit side of it. to keep an employer happy you would rarely get the chance to use a dog, maybe to bush them to ground?,sometimes when able to ferret but then the holes would have to be gased at the end of the day and any left on top shot that night then round the estate agian a few days later with the gas for any missed,unfortuneatly one man and the best lurcher is not going to eradicate a plague of rabbits down to the satisfaction of whoevers paying the bill.lurchers are for sport as far as controling rabbits goes.

youre dead right.