Horse hoof bait ????

[dughunt]

Last year I read something about making bait for K9's with trimmings from horse hoofs. Something like soaking them in water and pouring the liquid off, using it for bait. It sort of makes sense, because I trim and shoe my own horses. While I'm working on their feet,my dogs can't wait to gobble up every smelly little morsel that hits the ground! So....has anyone tried this one? THANKS

[RdFx]

You can make  a liquid bait by boiling hoofs or let  stand in summer sun and perc by itself..... I use pieces of hoofs  and frogs by themselves and they work just fine.   I also use the chestnuts.

[Wackyquacker]

Good god first its horse apples, then milled aged horse @#$% and now the hoofs  :shock:   Well one thing ole RdFx left out ...if you think for one min that horse apples smell you ain't lived till you smell fermented hoofs  wooo EEEEE are you in for a treat :eek:  :eek:  :eek:  :eek:

[RdFx]

Wacky Quacker cant you even keep yr yakkity  :evil: yak shut, dang it i wanted him to find out for himself !  Especially if he spills some on his hands or clothes :eek:   But canines really love the stuff.  Sniff, sniff whoooeeee!

[rascal (Joe Duncan)]

RdFx;

  You might want to explain what the "chestnuts" on a horse are before someone thinks they are from the chest or from the nu -- oops!   And they aint' the kind of chestnuts you eat around Christmas time either!  :roll:

[RdFx]

Yea i guess i better Joe.  Chestnuts on a horse are found on the inside of the front legs  around the knee area.  They can be picked off and  ground up  and  used  in dirt hole or in a flat set like a gland lure.  They are semi hard and flake off..... They have a sweet horse smell.  My daughters dogs  sit and drool and slobber when im working with the chestnut material...... So you can imagine the digging response you will get fm wild canines   .     Gosh  i just let go another secret  shucks        LOL

[Wackyquacker]

Dang !  and here I thought a horse chestnut came off of a tree that is found a lot in Ohio.  

Will Burro Nuts work?

So Rascal, did you get the 4 wheeler in for its 5000 mile check up yet? :-D

[dughunt]

WOW I never expected this post to stir up so much horseplay :lol: I guess I should admit, I made up a batch of this stuff this summer (just wasn't sure if I had it right)I did, however ad a secret ingredient...it's known in equine circles as a "bean". This can be collected when performing normal annual maintenance on a gelding, from an area located above the chestnuts on the hind legs, nuff said! Oh yeah RdFx, I did experience the lovely fragrance first hand after spilling some in my garage. My wife got to enjoy it too, after I put the paper towel that soaked it up in the waste basket (inside the house) :oops:  :oops:  she's recovering nicely and may allow me to enter the house again any day now. OK then, here's another question. If any of you use this stuff for bait, does it work?do you use the liquid or do you scoop out the solids?

[RdFx]

Liquid and the solids work.   Dig a good deep dirt hole and   even after trapping season canines will come and the hole gets MUCH MUCH BIGGER!.  The liquid soaks down and the canines just keep digging and digging.  Just the response you want.

[rascal (Joe Duncan)]

WQ;
  The donkey gonads ain't that great but just try his bunghole

  The 4-wheeler has sat in the barn the last 3 days.  RAIN RAIN RAIN!  I decided to tweek some traps and ad extension chain and extra swivels for set up on cat traps that will have to be on drags.  Found some more good cat locations but no way to stake down in pure rock! Gonna be a b***h just to get good sets in but sure is good looking cat ground. 2  very rocky ridges (rim rock for about 1/2 mile on each ridge) with a nice little valley inbetween.  Will set the top and bottom as well.  Will just have to see what moves.
 Lots of grey fox sign also.  Might pick up a few once season starts.

[RdFx]

Joe  rain whats that???   Very dry here.  It is 0 degrees here this morn, having a cup of java before suiting up and  running the line.  With all that rock   you must have to have very sharp points and a little weight to yr drags to follow them right?  Well hope you the best when you start laying steel.  Got to run later.

[rascal (Joe Duncan)]

RdFx;
  Actually, I use a lot of drags from old logs or cut my own drags in locations like this.  By season, I will have taken the chain saw (maybe today if weather is decent) and cut drags from fairly close to my sets where I don't have to pack them in.  It is heavily timbered with a lost of small pine, cedar, and scrub oak and the land owners do not mind me cutting a few drags.  I then use about 7ft. of chain with 3 strands of #14 wire twisted with a drill to attach chain to drag.  I like the drag to be about 3 or 4" in diameter at the base and about 6 to 8ft. long.  
  Most of our cat run about 22-25lb. but I have caught big toms at 30-35 lb. and this set-up seems to work good for me.  The cats will normally go down hill for a few yards and since I normally make 2 or 3 sets at a location, it helps leave the other sets working and gets the cat away from the set enough so it is easier to re-make.

[Wackyquacker]

See RdFx, its a kill set in Joes hands!  The cat runs down hill and the log rolls over him and squisshes him flat.  Won't work here too flat :-D

[RdFx]

It so cool to see a logger trap cats.  But what is going to happen when the forest svc asks Joe for his logging permit??? :cry: !  I know Joe said landowner said it was okay but that was for limbs not logs

[rascal (Joe Duncan)]

WQ;
  NOPE!  Here is the kill set just FYI.  Instead of using a piece of antelope hide, or other fur for a flag on the cat sets, I do just the opposite of an attractor.  Where I would put the flag, I simply replace it with your picture and the cats get uglyed to death without the log having to roll over them. :twisted:

RdFx;
  Now surely you don't consider for one moment that I would break the law :eek:   Down here the land owners sell off the timber and the loggers often leave tops that I can use.  But my favorite log set is to cut the tree when the cat is in the top of it-- catch the cat as he falls out when tree is dropping and then dispatch it with my hands.  I also killed a bear when I was only 3.   :roll:

[Wackyquacker]

How's come you're so sweet on RdFx and mean and nasty to little ole me? :cry: