Thread: Bird Predator Control

Looking in the window on a rainy day nope none of you are getting in.

Originally Posted by sore head stoat

I would be interested to see how you set up the Victor in your box for weasels, do you use the Landcare shroud ?

No Landcare shroud, i use the victors with the yellow tread plate and set the trap forward in the box with bait behind the trap.



Its not a specific set for weasels just the way i set all my victors. Often i bait them with smoked fish bones/skin as that is what i have in the freezer. Seems to be a good lure for a range of critters.

Some of my victors are two and three years old and still going strong. Just give them a brush and a spray every once and a while.

Out in all conditions and still working



I have caught 7 weasels in them so far this year and some have been quite small/lightweight so may not have triggered a DOC 200 ???

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I have been checking a few lines in my exercise Park up the road - I can just about see a possum in a trap from my front windows - accompanied by my wife and dog so I am fairly safe
I had a three week break for leg surgery so the rat traps are a disaster zone - tripped and scavenged - the odd part head and some fur is best evidence of a kill
Hogs in doc250s - yuk - it’s been a while since possums came over the gully and into the danger zone - but they now seem to be on the move - a bad decision for about six of them recently - Sentinels are always ready and waiting - one trap got torn off a tree a month or so back so he must have been a big one - I can confirm for you @Dead Rat - that your Flipping Timmy does the biz - even with dried out apple - but as an experiment - I have mounted it a bit lower on the tree and fitted a Connovation lure tube on the bait rod - the same flavour that I use on the Sentinels - I love the smell of aniseed - still leaving the possum with a choice of a Timms on the stump or the Timmy on the tree
Mindie cant understand why I leave dead possums up a tree - too high for her to reach or she would cart it back to me - just realised why she is slow to follow me off a possum trap site - little buggar likes the blue stuff I plaster on the tree and licks it off
Always amazes me how a rat gets into a doc200 and gets killed on the way out - what lousy luck
I am still running about six boxes around the street perimeter track - getting a few mice and a rat every day - got a big Norway a few days back - bloody mice in the garage have got me beat - but it was cold and wet this morning and pretty sure he ran back outside

Mice in the garage or shed,, get some of those "take no prisoners" victor wooden base mouse traps with the yellow plastic treadle, problem solved.

Is it a Shag? Its not a Weka.

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Obviously not the priority at the moment but they mentioned in the news they have discovered ferrets were subseptable to covid 19, hence that’s what they are testing the first vaccine attempts on.

Possibly a silver lining but also possibly another nightmare waiting to happen if they can transmit it, I have no idea, time will tell but another reason to glove up when dealing with critters

Where did you hear that?

Originally Posted by Hiawatha

Where did you hear that?

I can back that up as i listened to head of the australian company conducting the tests on ferrets being interviewed on RNZ last week.

He said they have used them (ferrets) before when testing for the SARS 1 virus.

He also said that the ferrets lung structure closely resembles that of a human making them an ideal lab animal for respiratory testing.

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Level 3 and i went and cleared my high country trap line today as they are in my region/ district. They had been out for 5 weeks.

First line i did was 11 traps and filled 7 of them with mustelids 5 stoats and 2 weasels in various states of decay...2 of the empty traps had been tipped over by possums ? and were never going to catch. Some bastard animal had eaten the back half off 3 of the animals tails and all gggrrrrr lol.

Next line of 50 traps and in the first dozen traps i was on fire getting another 5 mustys, (the stoats in these traps were quite freshly caught) and 2 rats and then it all slowed down getting another 6 mustys and another 2 rats from the balance of the traps.

Anyone else get out today ?

The chook thief, was active and hadn't seen what was going down. My first reaction was a cat.
So the cat traps went out but no success. Then one morning I saw the shadow of what it might be.
Made a feed tray and a leg hold, two days passed and kept the hens locked up.
On the third day there was no resurrection for the murdering thief,just taken for relocation.
KH

Finally Covid restrictions, work and tides aligned to allow me and my boys to go and peel some critters out of my estuary traps after 7 weeks.
mumified cat

cat pancake
And finally a cat in a cat trap
All up 4 Ship Rats, 2 Hedgehog, 2 weasel and surprisingly 6 cats ( 5 in doc 200’s)
Bloody good to be back out there.

If i could, I would 'double like' that mate.

Awesome stuff.

Looks like a nice day too. Lets hope we are looking at the back of covid

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From memory it was a mix of rabbit or liver, have caught a couple before on separate occasions but this was unreal, amazing how they get in ............. but they don’t get out!

Hello I'm new to this forum, just enjoying the photos and advice. this is a test to put up a photo. I'm up in South Head on the Kaipara

Welcome to the Forum @BillyXmas546 if your gonna post in the other threads they appreciate it if you post something in the introductions thread. But a dead ferret is a good ferret so you are all good here How did you get it?

Welcome to the forum @BillyXmas546 - I wouldn’t want to be a predator around your trap lines - looking forward to seeing some of your trapping systems
I have done three trips around the Quarry in the last few days - devoid of victims in the traps but I am sure they are getting dragged away - the only body I found was a rat in a Doc200
I have been trying out a D Rat trap around my street line - it seems quite powerful and has an easy operating handle on the side - swing the handle up to reset and it drops the rat out on the ground for the next one to have a feed