Ermine - the excellent mice, water rats, reptiles hunter. However and it is subject to amateur and trade hunting of the person because of the valuable beautiful fur. For the same reason it do not shoot, and apply various ways of catching.
It is required to you
- - traps No. 0 and No. 1
Instruction
1. Except for caress, an ermine - the smallest small animal from family marten. It is an active predator which hunts various rodents, especially of mice voles, he nests near natural and artificial reservoirs. More active the ermine becomes night, perfectly swims, at extreme danger easily gets on a tree.
2. Hunt an ermine traps therefore it is necessary to buy several these devices at first. As a small animal very easy and rather small, and traps have to be No. 0 and No. 1, no more. Select them with nonrigid springs which will not be able to kill a paw of an animal and also very sensitive that they worked from very weak pressing.
3. The season of hunting for an ermine begins usually late fall when there is already snow cover, accurate traces are visible. Look for its paths about ponds, lakes and the rivers, on open places, in thickets of a weeds and a cane. Do not try to save the placed traps from a smell of iron of which this predator is not afraid at all, is not necessary as well to paint over them white paint, just it is better to strew lightly with a small layer of fluffy snow.
4. Surely tie a trap to a bush or the hammered peg that production was not dragged off by a large bird. Suspend a bait from slightly begun to smell fish or the scorched bird over the device at the height about 50 cm. If you found many traces and branched paths, put 2-3 traps at distance of 60-80 m from each other, with a bait on each of them. Check them at least once a day that the got small animal was not spoiled by birds and mice.
5. For the lack of traps use the ice-boat to catching of an ermine. For its production pour water into a cone-shaped fire bucket, expose it on a frost, walls 2-3 cm thick are not formed yet. From above chisel through a round opening of the small size, merge not frozen water, take a house bucket until ice lags behind iron, the ice-boat is ready.
6. Drive several such devices in snow on ermine paths, fill a little straw in ice-boats, put a bait, it is possible a vole, the singed sparrow or a small fish. Outside powder everything, except an opening in the ice-boat, with snow. The ermine – a small animal very curious, with good sense of smell, will surely get into an opening of a trap of which will not be able to get out any more.