Thread: Bird Predator Control

Another two hogs today.But missed a friggen cat

Got 1 hog yesterday

I have just set a new trap in my chook coop. Hope I get that rat!

Hope you are making progress with that rat Sean - keep trying and you will get him

Had a quick look round some traps today - one rat, one hog and one possum - all helps the birdlife


Rat became fresh lure in the font of a cage - fish fillet in the dish - might tempt pussy


Possum and hog recycled over a steep bank



Just ready to leave for home round 5PM - roosters calling up in the bush - so gave them a few hoots - back they come from all round and this one floats down and lands in the top of a ponga about 50m away - I was in full view by the car but we called to each other for about 5 minutes - light was bad but camera managed some good pics

I haven't caught that rat yet, yesterday I got a hedgehog and 4 possums, I am pulling my traps out now as I'm not getting much

Bucket of water and a lead up are the best rat/mouse traps. They keep killing even when you don't check every day Spotlight for the hogs.

Up the boot-camp today for odd jobs - driving up the drive and spotted a few Quail - as usual they run up the drive rather than fly - well after about 50m or so there must have been eighty of them - best number we have ever seen so if they can get through the winter and breed - there should be heaps of quail round the district next summer - sadly they wouldn’t stand still for pictures - but about twenty in this picture



Checked the trap line about 50m away down the boundary line - just one large rat out of about twenty traps - seeing the Quail made my day and seeing just one rat was great - right now - numbers are low

Went for a walk this morning - Three possums.

Bravo, @Sean...!!

Where do u get possum past from

Originally Posted by FatLabrador

Where do u get possum past from

Middle of most rural roads in nz

Originally Posted by FatLabrador

Where do u get possum past from

You can get Goodnature possum paste direct from GN - but more simple from Farmlands - bright orange colour - cinnamon flavour - from my experience most predators love it - I used it a lot in Sentinel traps - also in a milk bottle top in Timms traps along with a piece of apple - you get rats or possums
I even got a stoat in that box in my last post - GN were surprised that a stoat would go for it
My Mate prefers Smooth in a Tube - a blue lure - Ferafeed from Connovation - I am going to buy some tomorrow - http://www.connovation.co.nz/vdb/document/101

good work @Timeout

Thanks Dynastar - I hope you guys don’t get sick of my predator control - but I do it for our pheasant, quail and native birds - I never shoot the game birds - they just overload on our property and head out into the wide blue yonder for others to enjoy - my predator control will never cease while I have this property - you can never say the job is done - because they keep on coming
Today has been a great day at the farm - I have been searching for a grey cat that I first saw a couple of weeks ago
I went up the hill to check the first of two cages - a black cat - I wasn’t after you but never mind - some close work with the hmr - Jenny - very pregnant
Up the hill another 50m to the second cage - yeh! - the grey cat - a bit more close work with the hmr - it was Tom
Just imagine the damage that Tom and Jenny have done in their lifetime - the feathers from a rooster I found on Sunday will be the last they leave round here

Don't have he gamebirds over here but we sure get some huge cats, have heard of them up to 20kg