Moles

[redlig]

A normal density is 3-5 to a acre possibly more on good habitat, their fascinating little creatures, I could talk all day about them!

Just don't start talking TO them.

 

[Greeves246]

A couple of rednecks thought it would be funny to strap a stick of dynamite to a rabbit anticipating it going down a hole and blowing up the warren. They lit the fuse and put the rabbit down. It promptly ran under their truck.

 

[Erie Fred]

Just don't start talking TO them.

I was going to suggest simply stop fighting with them and give them names.
Your new pets....

Maybe treat them like squirrels, and build some games/excercise for them.....

 

[brightspark]

A couple of rednecks thought it would be funny to strap a stick of dynamite to a rabbit anticipating it going down a hole and blowing up the warren. They lit the fuse and put the rabbit down. It promptly ran under their truck.

a suicide bomber then

 

[octo0072000]

here you jasper carrot on moles good for a laugh

 

[hotponyshoes]

I did read they are inedible?

I've never seen enough at once to make a stew but I've had them chopped up and added into faggots and they were tasty

 

[Bornfree]

Years ago when I lived in a cottage on the farm my garden was plagued with moles I always had several traps set. Came home from work one day saw a trap sprung pulled it out and in the trap was a dead female blackbird. My wife thought I had gone mad when I told her. After a couple of weeks while we were having lunch at work the gardener said "you had any luck catching moles". I got my own back though I planted stinging nettles in his seed trays in the greenhouse.

 

[nickk]

Poor mole,what harm?i mean a few soil tumps (great for your plants) first strikneen then traps!
Now if it were rats.....

 

[fizzy]

Why kill the poor little blighters? Not hurting anyone just makes the garden look untidy!
We sometimes get an invasion of woodmice. Now they DO cause havoc. Chewed through a waterpipe - what idiots use plastic pipes in a country house? Anyway we were lucky and heard it go - under bath so easy access. I use live traps and then drive them 2 miles away and release in the forest near a picnic site. Even take a supply of nuts for them

 

[Blobber]

Why kill the poor little blighters? Not hurting anyone just makes the garden look untidy!
We sometimes get an invasion of woodmice. Now they DO cause havoc. Chewed through a waterpipe - what idiots use plastic pipes in a country house? Anyway we were lucky and heard it go - under bath so easy access. I use live traps and then drive them 2 miles away and release in the forest near a picnic site. Even take a supply of nuts for them

We get a few but Im not that worried as mostly they are down in the paddocks, the issue comes when the runs collapse as it leaves quite a trip hazard for the Horses

 

[brightspark]

We get a few but Im not that worried as mostly they are down in the paddocks, the issue comes when the runs collapse as it leaves quite a trip hazard for the Horses

thats partly why farmers what shot of em as well same as rabbit warrens cattle getting injured

 

[Maker]

not horrific like cormorant but not good eather

Are you allowed to hunt cormorant? I'd have thought they were protected.

 

[Pete.]

thats partly why farmers what shot of em as well same as rabbit warrens cattle getting injured

As well as smashing up the knives on the mower

 

[Erie Fred]

For some odd reason, been seeing many, many more rabbits this year.
Eating in the yards, eating alongside the roads, flattened ON the roads etc.

 

[hotponyshoes]

Are you allowed to hunt cormorant? I'd have thought they were protected.

He didn't say he'd killed it, just eaten it.
I don't think there are any laws about eating it yourself..

Doesn't sound like he liked it enough to be a threat to the population anyway..

 

[Onoff]

My go-to set are Draper Expert believe it or not. Had them over 20 years and they really take some abuse.

 

[bricol]

Why kill the poor little blighters? Not hurting anyone just makes the garden look untidy!
We sometimes get an invasion of woodmice. Now they DO cause havoc. Chewed through a waterpipe - what idiots use plastic pipes in a country house? Anyway we were lucky and heard it go - under bath so easy access. I use live traps and then drive them 2 miles away and release in the forest near a picnic site. Even take a supply of nuts for them

I read that as "woodlice" . . . I was then impressed at the teeth on woodlice in your area, but wondered about the quality of cleaning in your house if they were able to mass enough to chew through pipes . . . but the rest made no sense until I re-read it . . .

 

[redlig]

I was going to suggest simply stop fighting with them and give them names.
Your new pets....

Maybe treat them like squirrels, and build some games/excercise for them.....

And when they are nice and relaxed shoot them.

 

[Greeves246]

The water table is so high round here they would need sub aqua gear.

 

[Onoff]

The water table is so high round here they would need sub aqua gear.

Well, well, well!