Rat traps

[SimonD]

Best bait or lure to entice the little barstewards in? Tuna isn't working, nor much success with cat food.

 

[Roy_H]

Best bait or lure to entice the little barstewards in? Tuna isn't working, nor much success with cat food.

Peanut butter

 

[TripleSix]

Chocolate too.

Hopefully if the trap doesn't get them diabetes will!

 

[tomlad]

Someone uses cocoa powder on traps for mice
Found to work the best harder to steal the powder

What type of rat traps ?

 

[SimonD]

I have a fat Lab so the traps are the funnel type ones that trap them in a compartment. I'll try some chocolate to see if it works, they don't seem interested in anything in particular. Except electrical wiring of course.

 

[tomlad]

fen traps work
in a tunnel to be safe
idealy ud place it on a rat run so they run thru rather than baiting .

 

[nasher]

A good tidy and sweep up will help. The less hidey holes and stuff to hide behind will assist in them wanting to take the trap bait. Once you have had tidy up make them a new home in one area tinsheets on bricks a few straw bales etc. Then you can see where the runs are and your traps will be more effective

 

[TripleSix]

Don't move traps at all for at least a week, rats are very wary of any changes, no matter how slight.

Severely neophobic are rats.

Think Rat!

http://www.pestcontrol.basf.co.uk/a...ral_understanding_rural/rodent-behaviour.html

 

[Beefy05]

I used bacon in mine that always worked well for me!!

 

[TripleSix]

I used bacon in mine that always worked well for me!!

Problem with that is I'd forever be getting caught in them myself.

 

[upnortheast]

Have found that mixing bait with waste cooking oil increases uptake

 

[andskill]

In my experience rats love smelly things - smoked bacon, rotting apple, off meat etc.

If you want to trap mice the secret is raisins. A raisin on the spike of a Little Nipper mouse trap seems to work every time. If you are particularly tight you can quite often re-use the raisin a number of times!

 

[VerminInTheCity]

Hi, we have a few mouse traps set in London, today one of the traps had gone off and the attached image was next to it. Am I right thinking this is a rats tail ie my problem is bigger than I thought? Thanks in advance for any assistance ps was around 2-3" long but not far off 10mm thick

 

[Shutesy]

I have to say I don't examine any rats i catch in that close detail but I'm pretty sure that's not a rat tail. Looks more like a squashed slug to me!

 

[Roy_H]

I have to say I don't examine any rats i catch in that close detail but I'm pretty sure that's not a rat tail. Looks more like a squashed slug to me!

I am sure you are right. I have caught slugs in mouse traps before , they must like cheese too!

 

[VerminInTheCity]

Thanks for the feedback, I must confess I did think it looked like a slug but seemed too thin, and too stiff (perhaps they also get rigamortis). It wasn't there long enough to dry out (Mrs constantly checking) but if they commonly find outdoor traps that could be the answer

 

[Dry Rot]

You need to put your traps down BEFORE the rats arrive as the first ones on the scene are the scouts and they will lay safe trails for the rest to follow.

Try shredded newspaper in your cage trap. If there is plenty of waste food around, they won't be hungry but they will want to breed and be on the look out for nesting material.

Also, leave some of your bait outside the trap so they get a taste for it and want more. Then the greedy blighters may be tempted to go in.

As others have said, have a clean up. Put feed in things like 45 gallon drums with lids so the rats can't get at it. I hand feed my poultry now after getting a plague of rats because of self feeders. No rats now.

 

[Roy_H]

I once caught a mouse's tail in a trap. The following morning there was a dead mouse in the same trap (but it didn't have a tail).

 

[Landy Nick]

Anyone used these traps before. Not cheap though.

 

[tomlad]

I have a A24 it basically works I don't honestly like it as much as the guy in the video.

I bought some more food pots 'baskets ' separately ive found fishermans boilies a better lure than the one supplied
with the basket u can bait it with anything if it in a grain shed use grain ??? something that's smells good