Cut a hole
THE PRETEND KEEPER
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Bo Diddley
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Thanks for the info Jess, I'll have to look carefully at how it's fixed.. I'd hate to be the person who causes first blood to the Mule. Maybe I should let my wheels travel in old ruts and keep using the old machine.Be careful driving around with the windscreen open, mine fell out and smashed. Now only opened for the shot ,mind you good steady rest with steering wheel,grab rail and dash to use
Rhodesianjess
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The boss said " you can have the first one, the next ones on you".
Took the hint and only open for the shot now
Took the hint and only open for the shot now
BenBhoy
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Fair enoughThe boss said " you can have the first one, the next ones on you".
Took the hint and only open for the shot now
stavross
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Not put much up lately but I have still been putting the graft in, I’m doing my best to spread the birds out into the drives and away from the pen as it’s starting to stink a bit now, I’ve managed to move a few into most of the drives now and more follow each day, the deer are becoming a bit of a problem especially over the far side of the shoot, plenty of traffic on the newly drilled fields, a little under 5 weeks now until the start of our season, so I’ve started with the hospitality getting the first of the bramble gin bottled 
Well its only 2 weeks until we start and our covers are packed
Already sorted the drives and pegs all out so all set - unless we have a storm like this weekend again
Being thinning the pens for the last few weeks to get more and more light in to control any worms and get the air in for next year
Just started having issues with badgers pulling off springs from feeders - most odd and most annoying !
Already sorted the drives and pegs all out so all set - unless we have a storm like this weekend again
Being thinning the pens for the last few weeks to get more and more light in to control any worms and get the air in for next year
Just started having issues with badgers pulling off springs from feeders - most odd and most annoying !
Cheviot
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Had same problem once tried these
Phil fox man
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Hi,
Has anyone else used this type of bob holes,I saw them on YouTube.
I made a couple to try out and they seem to work well.il do a MK2 version and most likely over engineer them
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phil.
Has anyone else used this type of bob holes,I saw them on YouTube.
I made a couple to try out and they seem to work well.il do a MK2 version and most likely over engineer them
.phil.Rhodesianjess
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@Phil fox man , I inherited pens with bob wires on the estate I'm employed on now, removed them all.
The queues they caused when walking birds back in made the ones waiting their turn panic and try taking off. Not impressed with them, prefer birds to go straight through fox grids and into the pen with minimal fuss.
Work well at ground level with cage traps for corvids though, especially jackdaws, they quickly learn to push them up.
The queues they caused when walking birds back in made the ones waiting their turn panic and try taking off. Not impressed with them, prefer birds to go straight through fox grids and into the pen with minimal fuss.
Work well at ground level with cage traps for corvids though, especially jackdaws, they quickly learn to push them up.
stavross
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Well, I take it that’s summer finished, feeding this morning and the rain is biblical, I checked the rain gauge when I got there and we’d had around 60mm of rain overnight and it’s showing no sign of stopping, it’s definitely keeping the birds off the fields, it’s definitely what the birds needed, I just want to see it cool down now, a few frosty mornings too harden them off. They are moving onto the wheat now properly, I left them another day before going up to feed as I knew they would clear the feeders of pellet first before having to take the wheat. I seen birds in every drive today even with the heavy rain so things are moving along nicely, home now and soaked through, so it’s a hot shower for me now and I’ll have an hour inspecting the back of my eyelids in my chair I think 
stavross
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Not seen many at all up there, I’ve had 5 since the cubs were above ground, I’ve a few places that I bait and the last time I baited it was Sunday and it’s all still there
now the lowland farms I shoot on are a different matter, popped into one small farm a week or so ago and seen 5, all on next door’s fields and wouldn’t come near the caller, but at least I’ve got something to do after all this pheasant nonsense is over
BenBhoy
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Find anything up there??
stavross
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Not much, it’s a very peaceful if a little vacant spaceFind anything up there??
stavross
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Lovely autumnal day up at the shoot yesterday, birds are really spreading out now, I went late afternoon to give me an idea of there route back to roost, in one of my drives ( piggeries, tree side ) I have a small bunch of between 25/30 that are definitely not mine, so that drive was well fed in the hope they hang around and bring in a few more 
Rhodesianjess
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stavross
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I’m of the view, if they are on my land they are mine, I’ve court next doors keeper trying to walk his birds off my fields and parts of my woods before and if he wasn’t such a tw*t I’d help him, like I used to with the keeper before him, now I like to be as unhelpful as possible, I’m not an aggressive chap but he got a bit of a shock when he jumped out of his pickup and went toe to toe with me@stavross , I've had 3 white cock birds turn up in a boundary wood. Presumably they've brought some friends, part-time chap next door will be livid if he sees them on me. That's the problem with distinctive birds, you know where they've gone
Bo Diddley
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We had two white cockbirds turn up last year, one of the guns shot one, and he was as chuffed as could be... it pi$$ed me off a tad, I got used to seeing them, we had a Reeves hen for four years as well, she never flew over the guns once, I haven't seen her since last spring.
stavross
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Last season I had a black hen bird turn up in my piggeries drive, well away from the pens, it stayed there all through the summer, she was a stunning looking bird, on the second shoot day we went to do the piggeries drives for the first time, I’d told the guns about it on the morning and that I didn’t want her shot, I said “ you will know it if you see it, it stands out a mine” right at the end of the drive half a dozen birds came out over my mate and you guessed it, the only one he shot was that black hen 
I should of put a fine on it, I bet he wouldn’t of shot it then
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