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I think my mechanics idea would work, just cable tie a couple of baits that have the hole through them under your bonnet somewhere. It has the added bonus of seeing if it's been touched while you were away.
But having said that, I'd prefer not to attract them in the first place. Damned if you do and damned if you don't ?????
ahhh yes I remember supposedly a mexican assasin -- many years ago country calendar I think it was had a couple from Northland doing intensive predator work on their property - they were using a water trap for rats- basically a 30 litre I guess drum in ground with a simple trip plate above and bait - rat went for bait plate tripped rat fell into water drowned ratty - worked a bloody treat - they had a number of them around the farm - empty out basically ratty sludge every couple of weeks - course DOC and the do goodys went ohhh no poor ratty left to starve drown and die but I thought genious
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Originally Posted by Woody
I use box traps from local ITM store and bait the trigger hook with sultanas which I smear peanut butter on.
I dispatch caught rats with a BB gun - tip: don’t shoot them with the trap on concrete paths to avoid ricochets and blood stains!
Done quite a few of those repairs. They seem to like the insulation. One customer had a rat chew its way through a loom up under the dash, that was a fun one to do
My Uncles first job out of school was as a shepherd in the yards at Gear Meatworks Petone.Unloading rakes of livestock wagons.So of course him and his dogs would regularly put up the well fed friggin vermin.I can always remember him saying the biggest rats at Gear were the ones that lived& fed permanently in the blast freezers.He reckoned they had evolved like the wooly mammoth into gigantism with size and dense shaggy coats to survive the sub zero temps.True story.
Ehat are everyone's recommendations on type of rat bait? We've got the little shits everywhere but proximity to the bush means its hard to know if we're killing the current rats/ whether they are just being replaced by new ones. Also keen to hear anyone's successful DIY bait stations, I've just been going with lengths of whatever pipe i have sitting around, with bait pinned in there with no8
Attachment 274449 what no second cheese??? Sunflower seeds work a treat. I put a bucket lid under the traps to stop them melting into the loft insolation. Attachment 274450 That’s for the mice.
Rats well the old paint bucket with a could have drain pipes drilled through the side and trap in the middle baited with seeds works. Keep the lip on to stop the dog and birds settling it off.
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Our cat does the job, hes a fantastic hunter. He left a huge rat on the footparth for us the other morning, another mouse at the back door this morning and usually one there most mornings.
Before we got our cat we had mice or rats in the celling scratching around keeping us awake but now complete silence.
He loves going under our basement garage so I guess he is getting them before they make their way up the walls and into the celling.
Not 10 mins ago, heard cat thrashing around in laundry
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Got this guy after he was bailed up into the meter box by the cat.
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Never heard it coming :XD: a shocking end all round:x_x:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pauly5
I put one block out and when its gone wait 4 or 5 days before putting another out. Apparently female rats will come back and keep eating it as it takes a while to work. I notice we get luls in them coming in that way. Theres bush near us that will be full of them
I use those blocks with the hole in them and just use a long screw to hold it to a piece of wood. I put it a bit up off the ground at a height where a rat more than a mouse can reach it. The screw once youve drilled it in once only needs to be finger tight
Sorry on mobile mode, slugs and snails seem to like the bait as well so I sprinkle salt around the bottom of the wall where the bait block is
Intel required - what are those mice traps called and where prey tell does one get them? They are the best looking trap I've seen so far, I like! Those plastic 'safety' ones can often not hold aggressively enough, I've had a few unset and thrown/dragged about until the occupant made it's escape. I don't as one experience like that and no more trap for mousey. I'm not in the business of training circus mice, I'm only interested in ending their time on this planet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sideshow
Used to see those traps a lot in the old school hardware shops
Some manufacturers used wiring that had soy based insulation that attracts rodents. Not the smartest idea but I’m sure someone received a bonus for the cost savings/being green.
Come down to the HB......I was staggered to find out that we now only have 2 Auto Electrical Workshops in Hastings. In a time when most breakdowns are not mechanical, but techknowledgy/electicaly related.Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
You must be breading super mice, or are they getting sprung by rats?Quote:
Originally Posted by No.3
My wife's mouse count using the plastic traps is 15 at about one a day. No sprung empty traps. Likewise we set 2 traps in our accessable ceiling space. Never had a sprung empty trap only sprung traps with dead mice inside.
Rats are a different proposition, they eventually die in the bigger plastic trap version but you need to tether the trap, same as you would with a possum.
Have also got some rat traps free from the local council. Haven't bothered to use them as the plastic rat ones are so successful. Must set up my Good Nature trap though. I like the concept of never having to reset it after each kill. Only thing is you have to rely on the GN trap's kill counter as killed rats are removed and eaten by their "mates". No pile of dead rats under the trap.
I dunno, but I do know for a fact we get some big hua mice same as the fat arse rats. I think the issue may partially be to do with the fact that peanut butter is not our go-to bait as the little sods have too many other options in the form of garden and tree crops. Apple is one of our mainstay baits for traps - and those little plastic traps with the 'bait tray' arrangement with little nubs works for peanut butter but not for apple or other fruit baits.
What I've been doing is using the peanut butter as a 'glue' to hold the fruit option in place, and it works with tube traps and the victor style traps but I think the issue is the tray on the plastic traps allows the mouse to pull the tastier fruit piece away before they trip the trap. I think that this means that the plastic traps might only be getting a peripheral whack on the end of the snout or something that isn't fully fatal and it's allowing the rodents more fight time to eventually pull out from under the trap's jaws. With the Victor-type traps the fruit piece is hooked into the trigger plate and any movement or pulling on the fruit pings the bail arm straight onto mousey's head/neck which is quickly fatal.
I see in my post above I said sunflower seeds. Sorry but that’s wrong pumpkin seeds is best. You can use a needle and thread them onto the trigger. So they really need to tug at it to get it lose. Draws them in when there dry as well as wet.
while on the subject of baits for rats a student did a study in Waimana some years ago when they set up the mainland Island in there for Kokako - what do rats like = okay no 1 peanut butter - 2 - white choclate buttons - 3 - marzipan ( that yellow heavy layer they put under icing on a cake - sadly Tuhoe have chosen to let that whole project go to ruin
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A wrap around with cotton works well even with butter or fat.i figure it gets caught in nibbling teeth or moves trigger enough to set traps off.done this forever on mouse traps.Quote:
Originally Posted by No.3
I’ve used fine fuse wire to hold a sultana on the plate on those wee grey plastic traps, fiddly to do but one sultana is good for 4-5 mice (at least)Quote:
Originally Posted by No.3
a little piece of cellotape gives 3-4 mice per peanut butter bait
Something about the yellow eyed versions, the bastards are lethal and proud of it. This one I have is by far the best hunter I've had (damn it, getting sick of cleaning up the blood off the carpet). He goes outside in the pissing rain in the storms just gone, less than 5 mins and back with a mouse looking like he's had to swim for it. Take the mouse off him, dry him off so he's not dripping all over the bloody house and feed a few treats and bugger me, back out into the wild and back in about 3mins this time with another mouse. Repeat drying off, treat regime. Ok back out the cat flap you arsehole I see what's happening here, trade treats for carcasses. Back in about 6 mins with a freaken rat! This time, dried off, rat in bin, treats awarded, cat flap locked, pissed off kitty. Not putting up with that shite all night.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm Rem Mag
I use envirotools https://envirotools.co.nz/collections/our-products ceiling cat, it works great and no more step ladders or having to handle the decomposing little shites. And all this is very interesting but Rod spent 5 days in the scrub, how did you go? I miss your reports, and happy to have no place names. Cheers Ruger7mm
My home made stoat traps work well on rats.
Last night at barn. As some gin traps can be hard to set light enough to be triggered by a small rat I discovered hanging the piece of dog bikkie on the inside of the cage at the opposite side to the catch of the gin trap. There is more leverage on plate then.
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Im grateful to all the weka around my place. I think they are good pest control. Yesterday I caught a preggy mouse in the hood lining of my ute, It took me days to get it, what a relief. peanut butter (smooth) as bait
