Am doing lots of cage trapping and shooting rabbits on a links golf course at present. Simple proble with traps, woodmice are eating the carrots before bunnies get a look in. Can't believe how much they are eating/translocating? At least three carrots a night. It is woodmice, have inspected the odd remaining carrots and checked teeth marks. Don't want to bait mice as they are not really the problem and it would take an innordinate amount of bait as other would keep moving in. Never had problem this severe before. Anyone else had this problem, and how did you overcome it? Regards Dave
I'm assuming you're probably cage trapping on the fairway with your rabbits and woodmice coming out of the scrub and rough. How about when you take out yesterday's carrots and refresh, instead of binning them put them just on the edge of the rough where woody will hopefully find them and not bother with your cages. The rabbits usually ignore them when the fresh scent has gone and I'm not sure about woody. Let's call it "distraction baiting".
Spot, thanks for input trouble is cages on the fairway just get trashed by tofu eating tree huggers. Think it will be extra rifle trips at night Cheers Dave
Have the same trouble when trapping moles on a golf-course. I've lost track of the times i've been called a cruel b*****d. The thing is they're the first ones to complain when the moles get onto the fairways.
Weird isn't it Spot! Move up her matey, safety in numbers etc! Long sandy empty beaches, loads of stalking, and a very good pub for when it all becomwes too much!!! Regards Dave
Problem with carrots in rabbit cage traps
Posted - 12 Jan 2008 : 12:38:37
