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History Just over 25 years ago, Signal Crayfish were first brought to the UK as part of the restaurant trade. Since then they have found their way into the wild and have been wreaking havoc ever since. Their introduction has almost led to the near extinction of our native white-clawed…

The Solway Ladder Trap (also known as a letterbox trap) is our own take of the traditional method for catching crows and magpies which has been used across the country for the past century. It is a very effective trap with the capacity to catch dozens of corvids in one sitting yet light…

With the game season well underway and Christmas fast approaching; plucking game and poultry birds is a task many of us are, or will soon be, undertaking. With plucking by hand being a time consuming process and wet plucking dramatically reducing a bird’s shelf-life; a dry plucking machine has many advantages…

Before the pheasant poults go out to their pen for the first time, it is important to clip their. Since it doesn’t have a roof, the theory is that the pheasants will be able to fly out of the pen once they are ready to do so, but they do need a certain amount of training before this can happen. They…

When it comes to training a gundog, a topic we’ll look at more in the future, there are a set of principles which should be followed to maximize the effectiveness of your training regime and ensure that these lessons are not wasted on your dog.You should always bare these in…

Releasing pheasants into the wild always brings with it a whole variety of concerns and problems. Young birds chirp constantly to one another, and this sound is like music to the ears of any passing fox. Needless to say, thousands of pheasants must come to grief in the mouths of foxes every year, and it is the duty of…

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We made a disturbing discovery over the weekend. We moved our hens out of their house and set them up in their new home, then dismantled the old shed which had housed them for years. As we lifted the roof off the shed, the roofing felt peeled back to reveal some worrying…

Of our many new products for 2012, we are particularly pleased with the Solway Modular Nipple System, a versatile and adaptable method of watering medium to large numbers of birds. Supplied with three nipple sections (housing six nipples in total), a level tube and a pressure regulator, the modular nipple system has a variety of accessories which allows you to…