"Invasive species such as European rabbit have cost the UK economy over £5bn over the past four decades, with the majority of costs due to farmland damage."


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Do you want or need help managing any vermin you have on your farm, land or woodlands?

Vermin Controllers provide a FREE service helping reduce your vermin.
We are experienced and knowledgeable and help in the population management of
vermin species and when required game species too.


Call Alan 07957 361 650 or David 07808 171101 to arrange a site visit and make plans for eradication.

Weekly / Monthly  Visits

Most of the time vermin problems occur seasonally and need to be managed to prevent their population from over growing and eating crops. Together we can make a plan on how best to manage the vermin,  allowing you to keep the potential lost revenue from crops eaten by these pests.

With weekly or monthly visits we can keep an eye on the population and report back with regular updates and problem areas. With this careful approach that we can help main a healthy balance.

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Why us?

We control a number of species:
Rabbits, Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, Magpies, Pigeons, Grey Squirrels, Foxes, Geese and now Deer (classed as Game).

We are fully insured through BASC and have over 30 years experience on farmland, livestock farms, horse fields and barns/cattle sheds.

We are currently clearing Vermin sensitively on a number of larger Farms in the North East.

References available on request.

BASC

We are full members of BASC (The British Association for Shooting & Conservation).
This means we are fully insured to carry out pest / vermin control activities. Also BASC members fund political lobbying and campaigns that aim to deliver:

  • A guaranteed future for sustainable shooting sports.

  • All party-political consensus in support of sustainable sports.

  • Promotion of the conservation benefits of shooting.

    • About conservation

    The conservation team at BASC helps create a guaranteed future for responsible shooting by providing us with advice and changes on land and species management, together we help gather evidence to prove that shooting is vital for conservation and help build strong links with other conservation organisations. BASC work with the UK governments to effectively promote shooting. For some of these reasons is why we are proud members of BASC and always will be.

    Through good conservation we are working to ensure certain quarry species aren't wiped out while still benefiting the wider environment and landowners. Responsible shooting is a fundamental value, which is why we agree with BASC’s Green Shoots programme, and how it is central to landscape-scale conservation. This is shown by the Value of Shooting Report, shooting is of major environmental, economic and social benefit to the UK.

    Different Farms come with different problems

    We have noticied that there are farms that are plagued with certain vermin species and have to approach the culling of these sometimes more carefully & respectfully.

    If it's lambing season December - June (but for the most part Feb - Apr) culling of Foxes is a priority for us as the loss of new born lambs is a major concern for most farmers. Usually picking off these around livestock is a harder job than say in an empty field & has to be planned and executed accordingly.


    Facts about Rabbits

  • Rabbits are a major agricultural pest within the UK.
  • DEFRA estimate the UK population at 30 million and rising daily.
  • Myxomatosis is no longer a reliable controlling factor as rabbits are showing signs of immunity.
  • On average each rabbit causes £10 of crop damage a year, more in horticultural and other high-risk crops.
  • Rabbits eat 1lb of green matter a day i.e 1 square yard of winter cereal.
  • There is a statutory requirement for all occupiers of land , whatever its use,to control wild rabbits.
  • Rabbit control, carried out in the correct way, can be very cost effective.

    • Aggressive Foxes
    Fox attacks sheep
    Rabbit problems
    Rat problems
    Crop damage caused by large rabbit population
    Damage to farmland by Rabbits
    A mischief of Rats
    A plague of Pigeons

    'Figures suggest 36,000 new-born and infant lambs are killed by foxes in Scotland alone every year at a cost of millions of pounds to the rural economy'.

    Welsh farmer's anguish as fox kills one lamb a day for three weeks.

    A Welsh sheep farmer is losing more than one lamb a day due to foxes who stalk the farm, prompting a call of action.

    Meirion Jones, who farms in Meirionnydd valley, has collected 27 dead lambs since lambing season began. He has also saved two critically injured lambs with head wounds. Mr Jones said the foxes are harbouring in the adjacent Coed Cwm Mynach, a 1,000-acre woodland owned and managed by Coed Coed (the Woodland Trust). Neighbouring farmers have offered to help him flush out and shoot the rogue foxes, which have so far cost Mr Jones almost £1,000 in lost revenue. But he said pleas for access to the woodland for his foxhounds have fallen on deaf ears.

    Mr Jones was left fuming after being told to “get an alpaca” instead – the animals are refuted to deter foxes.

    A farmer from Hampshire invested in alpacas after he lost 116 of his sheep in a vicious dog attack on land in West Sussex. Alpacas are docile creatures, but are sometimes bought to protect birds and other livestock, as foxes and other predators are wary of being trampled. However, the woodland near Jones, Coed Cwm Mynach, is a sprawling woodland which hides the foxes well. The Woodland Trust does not permit dogs, which are banned from the forest. Landowners are permitted to flush foxes themselves, without dogs, in the hope of driving them towards waiting guns outside the woods, but Mr Jones said this was “impossible”.

    The NFU - The Voice Of British Farming has in the past said it is "crucial that farmers can control certain species for the benefit of agricultural production".

    We are a FREE PEST / VERMIN CONTROL SERVICE in Northumberland, Newcastle and Tyne & Wear



    Call Alan 07957 361 650 or David 07808 171101 to arrange a site visit and make plans for eradication.