Glue traps for rats and mice illegal shortly

[manhill]

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.

Ostriches can kick down the doors!

 

[ladycrofter]

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.

It was actually in the house loft. No idea how a robin got in there. Rats were chewing house wiring (pre cat). No idea how 2 wee birds got in.

 

[ladycrofter]

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.

Cats aren't stupid! Why hunt when you're getting food dropped at your feet

 

[TheTallGuy]

Cats aren't stupid! Why hunt when you're getting food dropped at your feet

Our previous mog was a great hunter despite being well fed at home!

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Our previous mog was a great hunter despite being well fed at home!

I have a cat which was kindly left at the farm by a wild cat who had a litter of kittens in hay shed then did one! kids have tamed it from a kitten so it’s half wild but you can stroke it. Great hunter and to be fair rats and mice been considerably less since she’s been about. She still gets treats off kids but disappears for days hunting sometimes

 

[Clive]

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.

can’t use peanut butter …….. dead tractor fail !!!

 

[Phil P]

can’t use peanut butter …….. dead tractor fail !!!

What about if you put a label on the mice saying “may contain nuts”

 

[Lakes Nash]

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.

Probably the difference between the north south divide!

 

[Exfarmer]

Cats aren't stupid! Why hunt when you're getting food dropped at your feet

Probably the difference between the north south divide!

they never had that much , it was supposed to be to keep them around the farm, lean and mean

 

[ollie989898]

can’t use peanut butter …….. dead tractor fail !!!

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Chris123]

Anyone tried baking soda or plaster of Paris mixed in with flour and chocolate powder and how effective was it.

 

[devonbeef]

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.

I would have thought glue traps put out at dusk, back out with air gun 1.5 hrs later, to put them down, more humane than dying from rat poison,having read this makes me think I should have been doing it that way rather than poison

 

[SilliamWhale]

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.

Red Tractor probably want a sign on there saying "Birds: Keep Out"

 

[SilliamWhale]

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?

I would have thought a good few bait boxes outside the grain store? Presume the mice aren't nesting in store?

 

[Forkdriver]

Cats aren't stupid! Why hunt when you're getting food dropped at your feet

Our cats outside are on ad lib food and are lethal vermin killers. They eat what they kill as well, apart from shrews and moles.

 

[chaffcutter]

The mice are in the insulation material in the composite sheeting, can’t get at the sods. Have to trap them when they come out to eat.
Back to the nipper traps and Nutella then.
Cats ok outside but a definite no no in the grainstores.

 

[Macsky]

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.

Poor girl with a major nut allergy that teaches in the same school as my wife went into anaphylactic shock the other day in the staff room, two epipens didn't make a difference, ambulance came and had to intubate her on the floor, thought they’d lost her, terrifying for all involved. Reckoned it was either a contaminated twix (which she had eaten plenty of before) or someone that had mixed some kind of shake earlier with hazel nuts in it in the room, these allergies can be unbelievably sensitive.

 

[jg123]

can’t use peanut butter …….. dead tractor fail !!!

Id rather peanut butter in a trap than all the tyre rubber off shed concrete floors!....... woops maybe they will ban that now iv mentioned it!

 

[Macsky]

Id rather peanut butter in a trap than all the tyre rubber off shed concrete floors!....... woops maybe they will ban that now iv mentioned it!

Often wondered how long it’ll be before tyre rubber becomes the next global scare? I mean, where does it all go? A 10mm+ layer of rubber of every car tyre rolling about the country, it’s some tonnage

 

[Grass And Grain]

Absolutely ridiculous.

I don't think it's ridiculous (to not use peanut butter in a trap). See the quote below. Possibly a contaminated Twix or airborne particles from the shake.

I know it might sound a bit ott, but if YOU put peanut butter in a grain store, YOU could be responsible for someone's death.

Just better to not take the chance Ollie. Take away the risk of it happening to someone?

The below is a sobering real life story.

Poor girl with a major nut allergy that teaches in the same school as my wife went into anaphylactic shock the other day in the staff room, two epipens didn't make a difference, ambulance came and had to intubate her on the floor, thought they’d lost her, terrifying for all involved. Reckoned it was either a contaminated twix (which she had eaten plenty of before) or someone that had mixed some kind of shake earlier with hazel nuts in it in the room, these allergies can be unbelievably sensitive.