Trapping foxes tips please.

Pellet Pinger

Pellet Pinger

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I have an awkward customer that’s paying regular visits to my farmers chucks. He’s had a few and becoming a problem.
I’ve sat out till the early hours for him a couple of times but the layout of the land, road, house etc means shooting is tricky the farmer was up last night at 3am and caught him trying to get in again.
Sorting a trap out now.
Any tips on trapping him best baits etc.
Cheers.
 
Pellet Pinger said:
I have an awkward customer that’s paying regular visits to my farmers chucks. He’s had a few and becoming a problem.
I’ve sat out till the early hours for him a couple of times but the layout of the land, road, house etc means shooting is tricky the farmer was up last night at 3am and caught him trying to get in again.
Sorting a trap out now.
Any tips on trapping him best baits etc.
Cheers.
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Get the largest trap possible, and put it alongside the runs. dead chickens make good bait but foxes aren't fussy eaters so almost anything will attract them.

Make sure the cage trap is firmly seated, and covering the floor with eath can help. Set it and hope for the best! Some foxes will not enter a trap but well-grown cubs certainly will,

Don't be tempted to move the trap, the longer it's in one place, the better. The best cage trap I've got is made from the galvanized gabions they use to shore up roads and the like. Without a doubt, the bigger the trap the more success you will get. Another tip is to put the trap in the base of a hedge and let it almost get grown over. When I was a keeper we had a very large trap that had been in the same place for years. apart from the entrance it was almost completely grown over, we caught dozens of foxes in that one.
 
For many years I snared a lot using small straw bales as a tunnel, at least 9 bales, 3 length ways in a line either side with 3 the same as a roof. Bait of your choice in the middle , wires at each end.
Works especially well if bales have been left on stubbles or hay fields.
 
I've left partridge pen sections up with no roof netting on, pop holes wide open, and kept lobbing in a bit of grub like rabbit legs, guts or road kill as I was passing, when you know they are taking the bits just put wires on the pen side of the pop holes, works well.
 
As said earlier I always cover floor mesh. Also try and feed area first before cage is in. Feed cage unset before setting. Dried dog biscuits are good scattered.
Most important thing I do now is cover sides and back of cage as they will have a habit of putting paws through mesh and setting trigger depending on trigger system of trap.

Little traps are a waste of time in my eyes they won't go in and to short to catch them on trigger.
Mine I made is 1m square entrance by 2m long. Welded trolley wheels to top so can be turned over and pulled along easily.

Also if you get lucky leave carcass in trap or on top for a good few hours. sent will bring in mates. Especially during mating season when vixens are caught
 
Bait wise, when I was trapping them I had good success with dead squirrels, refrain from using lambs or chickens as you could fall foul of the Animal By Products regs for failing to dispose of animal carcasses and leaving them out where wildlife can gain access to them , I know someone who was prosecuted for theses offences a number of years ago.
 
While back left a fallow neck in mine - nothing in 3 weeks - urban foxes round me prefer chicken nuggets 🙄
 
I have long had the idea of having the hens in a secure cage/pen for the night but on one section having a 'push through flap' that a fox/predator can enter the cage but not get into the hens section. Fox enters, flap drops and it cant get out and even perhaps having other foxes do the same.

I was actually going to use this idea with my bitch on heat to lure in the wild dogs.
 
JG above beat me to it, YOU HAVE A TRAP, it's just that you aren't trapping him in your trap.
 
it is said, "The sleek-furred fox and the elegantly spotted leopard can't seem to escape the disaster of nets and traps.”
 
Chucking carcasses in is fine but in this weather, the maggots are on it in a few days. Dog biscuit lasts much longer. Also, try baiting a bit of longish grass (stops corvids from eating it). Gives you an opportunity to nail it. A motion camera gives you a good indication of when the best time to wait out. Also shows how the fox is getting on around your fox trap - frustrating to watch sometimes though
 
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