“I was expecting we would get two to five stoats a year around here,” he said. “Already in the first two months we have caught 10, and I know of another farm where 27 have been caught.” GLENN JEFFREY/Stuff Whitehead shows off a stoat caught in one of the Podi predator traps set up on the farm. Whitehead encouraged other Taranaki farmers to join the predator-free programme. “Most of the farm owners have volunteered to be part of it and there a few who haven’t for their own reasons, which I can’t understand. “It’s no real benefit to my farm except to get rid of stoats which kill native, and ground nesting, birds.