Horse manure sets WORKED !

[dughunt]

Just wanted to say thanks to a couple of you old pros for the hints on using good old fashioned road apples to enhance my fox sets. I took my first (& second) red fox today! One on a urine post set blended into surrounding grass with dry crumbly,washed thru road apples. The second,with a flatset using fresh pile as backing,little hole with a dropper full of gland lure between pile & trap (again a thin covering of dried up stuff to blend). It took a few days but I got em both about ten feet apart.THANKS FOR THE POINTERS! Oh yeah,does anyone know where the glands one might want from the fox are located ?

[RdFx]

  Well congratulations,  blending at a set helps plus you are getting experience.  On glands  of a canine there is a gland on each side of the anus : take a few inches of the rectal chute also.  Behind ears on skull are two glands, the foot pads not toe pads, liver bile gland,  two  glands near rear hocks on leg and two on front leg approximately half way down........ the glands are usually about lima bean size and bluish color. Happy collecting .

[Wackyquacker]

Hey buzzard bait, those glands that everyone collects on the legs...the ones that often come with the hide when you skin, well near as I can tell they are regional lymph nodes.  Why do you use them in lures?  :?  

Now, don't go gettin excited no one said you couldn't use them in lures or that you shouldn't use them I just wondered why use them ...they don't have anything to do with scent marking etc.

Now the gall bladder release a concocktion called bile salts thes enzymes help in the digestion of lipids I could see where this additive would make things happen. :wink:

[RdFx]

Well to tell the truth i started collecting glands when i was 8 yrs old  wth info from an old Wi goverment trapper.  I know they are lymph nodes and it never  hurt my gland lures so i kept putting them in there.  Interesting thing to do would be to test just lymph nodes...... Summer project.  On the bile i dont use alot of it but ive noticed   that with and without there is a differant smell according to canines ...... I get digging response with the bile added to gland lures.   Soo WQ  what are u using the burro ears  for  :wink:    :roll:     :-D      Whoops forgot  WQ have you ever well you should have seen where canines, wild and domesticated sniff behind each others ears besides thier butts???  Ive seen it alot so possibly there is some scent  with that below ear lymph node....  Im always learning so this trapping thing has always been INTERESTING even though you get clunked on the head once in awhile and while yr down a beagle naws on your ankle...... Ahhhh yes you should be so lucky Wacky!!!!! :twisted:

[Wackyquacker]

I didn't say nothing about no ears and glands.  I figured (guess I was wrong again) that you had a handle on something with the ears.  I know that deer and the like scent mark by rubbing the heads on trees and such and figured you let one of your tricks slip out.

I figured that the lymphnodes would just be diluting your anal glands.  Really, I'll bet any mans money that there won't be a lick of difference betwenn lymph node lure and muscle lure all things beiing equal.

There is no question in my mind that bile will cause things to come out differently.  Witch Craft is all I can say.

[RdFx]

bubble, bubble, blurp  :twisted:  tis da eye of da NEWT and tail of da meadow mouse  :shock: