weeds and coypu

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mme mooch

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hi there, any ideas on weedkilling for docks and creeping buttercups in wet fields that have a huge natural spring fed pond in that has coypu living in it. will be spot spraying. ( well actually husband will!!)
 
Hello, Are you in France? Sheep eat docks can you borrow some from a farmer? if there's only a few you can Glyphosate the individual plants. For the Coypu I trap them (walk in live trap) with a handful of dry maize for bait. Put the trap the the run where they enter/exit the water. If you catch one they turn into angry tigers! be warned. I have them down my bottom field they make dangerous holes in the river bank that pop up in the field, horse leg size. One of my neighbours eats them :eek: They 100% vegetarian, he recons they taste like rabbit.
 
hi, am english, cobs irish and english and all living in france. our coypu are french and huge (not quite as big as the cobs, but certainly surprised us)
 
hello, yes, hadn't realized they make holes like rabbits. Am guessing you are in france too? do you buy weedkillers here? we have only recently arrived and still finding our feet.
 
Any glyphosate based is safe to use near water and should kill all the plants you don't want without harming the environment as it breaks down quickly. In the UK its normally round-up you'd use - but don't know what they have in france.

Coypu? Send one my way - although not sure it would fit in my old guinea pig cage?! :D
 
mme mooch said:
hello, yes, hadn't realized they make holes like rabbits. Am guessing you are in france too? do you buy weedkillers here? we have only recently arrived and still finding our feet.
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Hello again, You can buy Glyphosate from Bricomarche, they have their own cheapy brand called 'Go on'.

The problem with the Coypu hole is that they burrow from the pond or river below the water line and then emerge in the field. Therefore the hole is usually 'U' shaped, if a horse steps in one they can break a leg. I try to control them, I still find holes now and again. I fill them in with stones and old roof tiles, whack them in and put top soil over the top.
 
Thanks Lazybee, am relieved to have answer to weed problem and some info on the coypus ( or is that coypi or coypoos!!) that just leaves the fosse emptying into the utility and the mice epidemic in the lower rooms oh and the woodworm. The cobs were at least delighted that for the first few weeks i couldn't find any lo cal chaff or feed. my old boy almost inhaled his mollassed alfalfa- he hasn't had that for years! maybe that's why they settled so well despite the cold and conditions when we arrived.
 
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