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Have a slight mole situation in new field.

What have people used successfully to remove the little monsters from their land??

Ferrets?? Mole catcher?? Or sonic wave repellers?

Our field is a triangular ish shape. It has roads on 2 sides and a drainage ditch along the other. Would repellers be an good as the don't really have any where to go and being around 5 acres are we just going to be chasing them around our own field?
 
You are not going to believe this, but I know someone who swears by marshmallows. As in the toasting things. Buried in the filed.

It seems moley finds them yummy but rather....indigestible.

Sounds horrid but effective.
 
Never heard of the marshmallow trick

Someone once told to sort it out by putting moth balls in the holes/mounds of soil, when I walked the field later I had moth balls sitting on every mole soil mound...... clever little things aren't they
 
We had a problem so OH did a course to be a fully qualified Mole Murderer.

We did catch a few with traps, but we found the gas was the best. Safe for the horse too.

It would cost about £90 for the council to do it once, or he cost £150 to train, and £20 for the gas. Funnily enough we had them about 3 times and word must have gone round as they haven't come back!
 
Red-1 said:
We had a problem so OH did a course to be a fully qualified Mole Murderer.

We did catch a few with traps, but we found the gas was the best. Safe for the horse too.

It would cost about £90 for the council to do it once, or he cost £150 to train, and £20 for the gas. Funnily enough we had them about 3 times and word must have gone round as they haven't come back!
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So, you can get the council to come out and gas them?
 
turnbuckle said:
I know someone who swears by marshmallows. As in the toasting things. Buried in the filed.

It seems moley finds them yummy but rather....indigestible.

Sounds horrid but effective.
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After the marshmallow thing was posted in the Farmers Guardian a good few farmers tried it but sadly it wasn't effective-pity really- would beat setting traps!
 
just get a man with some traps-quickest and easiest.

our man set 4 traps(fenced off from the horses) and then moved them after a week, for a total of 4 weeks, and caught buckets of the things.........he was coming back to re set and empty traps 2/3 times a week!

we now have no mole hills, bliss (i actually hate killing them and would normally leave them be but they were destroying the walkways to the field, had they kept their hills to the edges of the fields i would have left them be)
 
I just kick the hills over on the fields to keep the ground from getting lumpy. But on the garden I use thin bleach the little beggars hate it.

No, I've never seen a blond one!
 
Our cat has been the most effective dispatcher of moles for us. Our land is in a sort of bowl, said cat sits on the fence at the top driveway (edge of the bowl) and like a shot flies down to the bottom paddock (assume she shes the mole hill appearing) and mins later shes back at the top with her catch! Mr Moley dealt with in seconds!

No help for you I realise, but she's fab for us!!
 
We (West Yorkshire) have a guy that comes to trap them £10 a mole - on our land surprisingly few moles make a hell of a mess ! 2 years ago I think we paid £80 and I'm just about to call him again so pretty good value.
 
Kate23 said:
Our cat has been the most effective dispatcher of moles for us. Our land is in a sort of bowl, said cat sits on the fence at the top driveway (edge of the bowl) and like a shot flies down to the bottom paddock (assume she shes the mole hill appearing) and mins later shes back at the top with her catch! Mr Moley dealt with in seconds!

No help for you I realise, but she's fab for us!!
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our old cat was FAB too, kept the moles under control for about 15 years and its only since he sadly passed on that we have had an increasing issue................he didnt pass his mole catching tricks on to the younger cats :(
 
I'd love to have a yard cat. But it's not really practical. I'm going to make some phone calls and see if I can get some one to come out and have a look at the fields to get an idea of price. X
 
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