Midsummer management
Despite the problems we are all encountering this year, for gamekeepers in particular the summer workload continues. Much of this revolves around the preparation for the arrival of the new season’s poults and all that involves. Pens and other equipment will have been checked and where necessary, sterilised, and of course the poults will have to be ordered or raised depending upon the system employed.
One thing that is never ending for professional keepers and fox controllers is the perpetual war on vermin. This continues all year round of course but reaches its peak in early and mid summer when the new season’s crop of fox cubs start hunting for the first time. These youngsters tend to present rather different problems to their parents as being that much smaller they can get to places the adult can’t. However,
young or old, all foxes numbers need to be controlled
