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Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:11 PM
Write your post here. After the Arctic conditions of last week its good to get out & get on with some serious mole trapping. Last week the traps I had out were set solid in the ground with no hope of any moles springing them and then when there was a slight thaw it snowed, the traps got buried and I couldn't check them anyway. Hopefully no more severe frosts & plenty of mole activity.  Baby rabbits have made ferreting operations difficult now, they will either skip through the nets and knock them down or the ferrets find them in the nest, make a feast of them & then lie down for a snooze. |
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Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:24 PM
 Write your post here. The colder weather of the past week or so has influenced what can or can't be done in the way of pest control. The severe frosts have made mole trapping next to impossible with the mechanisms on my preferred 1/2 barrel traps being frozen solid and the moles not triggering the traps, however I did take a particularly "tricky" mole from a client's garden today which fell to a "talpex" trap after eluding capture for nearly a fortnight - very satisfying. |
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Danny Barron: Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:30 PM
 Write your post here. Even Pest Controllers can get an unwanted influx of nasty visitors. We have a pair of feisty hens in or garden which give a steady supply of fresh eggs but the price to pay for having fresh eggs is having to deal with a steady supply of fresh rats. Our garden has a wall at the bottom which backs on to open farmland, the rats are active along this wall all year round, always on the lookout to exploit a food source, whether its food from a bird table, anything edible put into a compost bin, uneaten poultry food or simply waste that people throw over garden walls. |
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Danny Barron: Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:59 PM
Write your post here. Last Friday morning was nice and frosty, a perfect opportunity to deal with some rabbits for a local client. The little jill ferrets soon had a brace of rabbits out of a burrow in an old compost heap with no problems.  We moved on to another burrow in a thick, old hedge. I soon had the "Masterhunter" Quickset Longnets erected around the set & entered the pair of jills and stood back to await developments.About half an hour later the albino jill popped her head out of a bolt hole, I went to pick her up and she ducked back into the burrow but she soon showed again at the hole she'd gone down to start with. |
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