rat trap

[comanche 2,912]

I'd go with all so far mentioned and with making sure the trap is positioned in a good place and as arniboy suggests naturalising them with the environment a bit .

Bird fat balls and peparami stay on the hook well. a Star Bars are good . I think they contain peanut butter .I've used them quite a bit since doing a job in a shop where the rats had shown a marked preference for shoplifting them despite the abundence of other food.

This one went for a classic cocktail of peparami and bacon fat .

Edited March 14, 2010 by comanche

[theferreter 311]

peanut for me works everytime mate or nuttalla

[Bushwacker 13]

I caught a rat today in a rabbit trap baited with carrots, the area in question had been baited for a few days with carrots and I'd previously taken several rabbits, plus a woodpigeon & a redwing ( both released unharmed- proving the need to check traps regularly). I imagine the rat, which was a well grown adult, had got used to daily offerings of carrot & had lost any neo-phobic tendencies it may have had for the trap.

 

Good luck B

[rowey 1]

Try jam on a chunk of bread or piece of chocolate superglued to the trip plate on a fenn trap