Glue traps for rats and mice illegal shortly

[chaffcutter]

New legislation will soon make them illegal. We have used them in grain sores to keep mice in check, we obviously can’t use poisoned bait in that situation, what is the situation with using baited traps? Would the bait be a problem?
Is a trap where they drop into water legal?

 

[ladycrofter]

Why can you not use proper bait boxes for poison? Surely that is acceptable in a grain store?
Glue traps are dreadful, I only ever caught poor wee birds, what a horrible death.

 

[Bill the Bass]

New legislation will soon make them illegal. We have used them in grain sores to keep mice in check, we obviously can’t use poisoned bait in that situation, what is the situation with using baited traps? Would the bait be a problem?
Is a trap where they drop into water legal?

Grandad used to catch rats by putting a thin layer of crushed corn in the bottom of an old bath, once they got used to feeding in there he half filled it with water then put crushed corn on top of the water. Before my time but according to dad it was very effective. Not sure what ACCS et al would make of such a method though

 

[chaffcutter]

The risk of spilt bait from boxes in a grain store would be too great imo and probably a Red Tractor fail as well!

 

[Phil P]

Why can you not use proper bait boxes for poison? Surely that is acceptable in a grain store?
Glue traps are dreadful, I only ever caught poor wee birds, what a horrible death.

Anyone who is LANTRA trained will know glue traps legally have to checked every 24h and any vermin caught humanely dispatched. It’s not a case of laying the traps, forget about them and let caught vermin starve to death! Glue traps should always be a lasts resort though and never used them personally.

 

[manhill]

Thzt's ok, soon won't need them when my patrolling rat zapper robot comes to market.

 

[ewald]

Dislike them - once used one to catch an un-catchable mouse in the pantry. It worked, but I didn't much like myself for using it.

 

[TheTallGuy]

The current version of the text is that it will be "licensable" to "pest controllers". More worryingly is that it makes it an offence to fail to disable a glue trap if you happen to find one...

 

[ladycrofter]

I'm no fan of vermin having had commercial eggs at one time, and am all too familiar with the problem of eliminating them. But leaving any creature to swim until it drowns from exhaustion is sadistic IMO.

We used bait boxes and went through a massive amount of bait getting them under control. But the only thing that really worked was getting an outdoor cat from Cats Protection. Problem sorted. 100%

Mice, and especially rats, will decamp to safer pickings once they smell a cat. Wouldn't have believed it but it is true.

Grandad used to catch rats by putting a thin layer of crushed corn in the bottom of an old bath, once they got used to feeding in there he half filled it with water then put crushed corn on top of the water. Before my time but according to dad it was very effective. Not sure what ACCS et al would make of such a method though

 

[ollie989898]

Buy a shed load of those plastic nipper traps, bait with peanut butter or nutella and keep checking them. They are fudging lethal. Beauty is 1 more per trap and they are dirt cheap. Once the trap is shut no other mice can get at the bait either.

Bucket trap is said to be even more effective and can catch unlimited numbers of mice.

 

[Exfarmer]

I'm no fan of vermin having had commercial eggs at one time, and am all too familiar with the problem of eliminating them. But leaving any creature to swim until it drowns from exhaustion is sadistic IMO.

We used bait boxes and went through a massive amount of bait getting them under control. But the only thing that really worked was getting an outdoor cat from Cats Protection. Problem sorted. 100%

Mice, and especially rats, will decamp to safer pickings once they smell a cat. Wouldn't have believed it but it is true.

As a boy my mother had a large collection of feral cats which came to the door every night for all the titbits which were left from dinner. Probably 15 - 20 of the evil little beasts.
We also had a large population of rats and mice, which those felines failed to catch.

 

[steveR]

Thzt's ok, soon won't need them when my patrolling rt zapper robot comes to market.

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[Grass And Grain]

Buy a shed load of those plastic nipper traps, bait with peanut butter or nutella and keep checking them. They are fudging lethal. Beauty is 1 more per trap and they are dirt cheap. Once the trap is shut no other mice can get at the bait either.

Bucket trap is said to be even more effective and can catch unlimited numbers of mice.

DON'T use peanut based attractants in a grain store. Could cause a serious allergy problem in a product such as bread, breakfast cereal, etc.

Same for any common allergen. E.g. drinking chocolate if milk based, cheese etc.

 

[thorpe]

DON'T use peanut based attractants in a grain store. Could cause a serious allergy problem in a product such as bread, breakfast cereal, etc.

Same for any common allergen. E.g. drinking chocolate if milk based, cheese etc.

FFS.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Why can you not use proper bait boxes for poison? Surely that is acceptable in a grain store?
Glue traps are dreadful, I only ever caught poor wee birds, what a horrible death.

What ?

How can you catch birds in a Grain Store ? FFS.

Worse, you should be covering any traps to stop such things in the first place.

 

[Grass And Grain]

FFS.

I wouldn't have given it a second thought had I not had a couple of friends with nut allergies.

One of them is so sensitive to the allergen that they don't even need to eat nuts, just being in the same room as peanuts can cause her a serious reaction.

 

[thorpe]

i think it must be the world we we live in . when i was a kid it was only wasp and bee stings!

 

[ollie989898]

DON'T use peanut based attractants in a grain store. Could cause a serious allergy problem in a product such as bread, breakfast cereal, etc.

Same for any common allergen. E.g. drinking chocolate if milk based, cheese etc.

An allergy problem, what you mean for a product containing gluten? Use the trap with no bait then. Maybe the fudgeers will walk into it by accident.

 

[ollie989898]

I wouldn't have given it a second thought had I not had a couple of friends with nut allergies.

One of them is so sensitive to the allergen that they don't even need to eat nuts, just being in the same room as peanuts can cause her a serious reaction.

And guess what warnings you will find on the box of virtually ANY breakfast cereal?

 

[Flatlander]

I use no poison around the farm but have a tin cat in about ten different locations. Bait them with chicken feed and to begin with I was getting an average af six per trap. Thirteen was the best night by the grain dryer. Cheap reusable and no chance of getting your fingers caught. I empty them into an oil bucket then kill them. Had a few slick f ers jump out before being squashed. Nothing in traps for quiet a time now. If only I could get one to catch sparrows