Bait stations for foxes.

[JTO]

tomgsp, You do not need to put up lots and lots of bait stations. Depending on your acreage and location one or two here and there will do the job. The key is to bait regularly (not when you remember, or when its not raining, or when you find the time), but regularly.

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[Tugmanade]

Same as @Sika98k, keep it topped up regularly, a few Bakers meaty chunks scattered around, works a treat.

 

[Steve R]

Cat food.. fish flavours

 

[Plummer]

Getting ready with a little mod to the bait pipe, as it was pointed out to me on here, I hadn’t quite left a large enough aperture for Charlie to get his/her snout right in, so I have cut the original slot down the pipe to the floor

 

[Brian243]

Would badgers be a problem around bait stations?

 

[old keeper]

Badgers are a bit of a problem around anything!

 

[old keeper]

Getting ready with a little mod to the bait pipe, as it was pointed out to me on here, I hadn’t quite left a large enough aperture for Charlie to get his/her snout right in, so I have cut the original slot down the pipe to the floorView attachment 383842View attachment 383842

That workshop is an example to us all!

 

[old 30-06]

Sika98k, Just copied your bait station, and put two up in strategic positions. I will add the camera in due course.

 

[_jon_h_]

Think I’ll be making one or two of these tomorrow, Got at least one very timid fox on the farm at the moment, runs like a Jamaican Olympian whenever you get eyes on. Hopefully the temptation of “the cookie jar” might be enough to catch him out.

 

[nightcrow]

Hi
I’m getting my pheasants this week and my ducks in three weeks on a small syndicate I run. I currently control the foxes from a vehicle with thermal spotter and thermal scope or on foot but I am looking into setting up a few bait stations with highseats over looking them to sit in after I attend to the pheasants on a night.
Has any one got any photos of a bait station they use as you could do with them hanging around a bit to get a shot off.

Cheers Tom

Throw a few handfuls of peanuts around in the grass , they love them and will spend hours gleaning them.Watched a fox at dusk running hell for leather across two fields to get to where I had been baiting them for only a couple of days.

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, I used some fox lure on a dead rabbit, There is a chap on PW sells it in large bottles, Another thing I did was paint a stick top white and push into the ground near the bait so it shows up with night vision , the dead rabbit was tied to the stick by a few feet of baler string

 

[angler]

You guys have given me some good ideas for bait station. Plastic sewer pipe with a wooden bottom.
I hope they will work well. Of course, the trail cameras will be set up.

 

[BenBhoy]

You guys have given me some good ideas for bait station. Plastic sewer pipe with a wooden bottom.
I hope they will work well. Of course, the trail cameras will be set up.

I attach them to fence post or dig them into the ground couple of foot

 

[angler]

I originally thought to bury it, but I decided to make two feeders, so I cut the pipe into two parts. the bottom is covered with wooden boards. the camouflage is only there so that it would not catch people's eyes

 

[angler]

I modified it a bit now. I raised the boards to be level with the hole and made one hole bigger

 

[Plummer]

I modified it a bit now. I raised the boards to be level with the hole and made one hole bigger

I like the Camo, yet remember, hunger overcomes fear!

 

[pigeonbasher]

i keep a staple gun in the truck, and use cat food sachets, just nip a corner of and staple to a fence post

 

[blueeyes]

The problem I am having with my pipes which I bait with household scraps dog biscuits (dry) is that it ends up a congealed mess and no longer feeds out the bottom , it has a cover but I have tried it without to see if the rain would help move it down the pipe to no avail so is now covered again , I did see Mark Ripley using a plastic bottle full of water as a weighted ram , but I think this would make things worse for me , ant ideas most welcome Ps I have no rabbits so they are out the questions and wont be starting the squirrels till mid Nov

 

[Greenmist]

I know someone using patio drainage gully’s for bait stations for foxes.

thats a good idea

 

[Plummer]

The problem I am having with my pipes which I bait with household scraps dog biscuits (dry) is that it ends up a congealed mess and no longer feeds out the bottom , it has a cover but I have tried it without to see if the rain would help move it down the pipe to no avail so is now covered again , I did see Mark Ripley using a plastic bottle full of water as a weighted ram , but I think this would make things worse for me , ant ideas most welcome Ps I have no rabbits so they are out the questions and wont be starting the squirrels till mid Nov

I know it may seem daft, but good hygiene at a bait pipe is key... I keep checking mine every couple of days..
I am now training them to come in at a certain time, there again it may seem stupid, yet by putting feed in, and removing it at a set time, they soon learn to there on time, a bit like the Red Kites at a feeding point!