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Passive capture
made simple
By LINDA HENDERSON
It was the cost of capturing game
that set Steytlerville game farmer,
Haydn Krige, on a mission to
find a cost-effective solution to
the problem. In the process, he
unwittingly created a sensational
passive game capture system that is
a first in South Africa and is making
enormous waves in the industry.
“Under normal circumstances a game
farmer would need a qualified vet,
expensive drugs and a helicopter to perform
the task. That is not a cheap exercise and
it becomes a problem for smaller game
farmers who may only need to capture a few
smaller buck whose commercial value would
not warrant the cost of hiring a vet and
a helicopter.”
“Once prices were so lucrative that cost
could still be absorbed by the seller, but now
things are getting more difficult for smaller
operators,” says Haydn.
“I also had the daily operational needs
of the smaller game farmer in mind when I
designed this net. Farmers may, for instance,
need to select rams to move to other camps
or identify ewes for a breeding programme
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