Getting To Grips With Trapping

[shropshire mole 190]

Being more mole catcher than rat catcher have not done any real serious rat catching, until now.

 

I have a farm close by that is literally overrun with rats, but because of plentiful supplies of food and water, and that they just seem not interested in rodenticides, have tried muskil grain and pasta, romax rat cp and contrac blocs all with very little success. The farmer has until this year controlled the rats with contrac blocs, this year they just not eating them? he has tried other rodenticides as well but rats this year not interested

 

So have been trying trapping as control. This is working very well.

 

Getting daily catches using bodygrips and fenns in tunnels purchased from WMA, Even had 5 young rats in a monarch. Got some Kanias down as well but as yet they have not delivered. Shot 4 last night as well with air rifle and lamp

 

Think I will be choosing traps much more over rodenticides :boogy:

[OldTrapCollector 377]

The Kness style killer traps are very good, Shropshire, at least I have found them to be. I was wary of their plastic construction at first, being a bit of a traditionalist, but they soon outperformed my expectations. They come prebaited but I also used margarine and peanut butter as bait, and they worked very well indeed. Try a few

[Blackdog92 2,047]

I went down to one of my sheep shed the other day and its now empty of stock i was using thebig 50kg crysalyx tubs as water troughs and when i looked in one of them there was 4 dead rats 2 adults and 2 young uns in one of the tubs it had about 6 inch of water left init i found this strange as theres a stream about 20ft away that is always running so i cant figure out why they went in it. Has anyone else seen something like this?