Rat Bait

[Lee.m 142]

Hello has anyone got any advice on baiting rats and what people use I have been using peanut butter but is there any better suggestions

Cheers

Lee

[The one 8,485]

anything blended with veg oil so they got to stop and feed

[PLEDGEY 496]

I find that what one lot of rats might like on one perm rats on another perm won't even go near. It's trial an error. One thing I do do for rats is put down some wooden pallets and then put what ever bait under there. If the bait is just on the ground they snatch and run, if it's under a pallet they'll feel safe and more likely to stay. If there is certain areas where rats come out of their nesting area put a pallet there as well. They'll come out and sit under the pallet before running to another area. I have a pick up so can take lots of pallets and place them about if need be, more the better. Rats are very wary of any thing new though, it's called Neophobia, so it might take some time for them to get comfortable with any changes in their surrounds/environment so you have to be patient some times.

[walshie 2,804]

Nutella.

[villaman 9,983]

Any thing from a take a way

[philpot 5,005]

Liquidized cat food mixed with olive oil

[mark williams 7,558]

Put a nail through an open tin of sardines in oil into heavy wood.

 

 

 

 

" Let the show begin"

[philpot 5,005]

I like the sound of that Mark and if it is a quiet night, a snack is close to hand, like your thinking mate.

 

Phil

[Baldcoot 2,352]

The ones under my daughters shed loved choccy chunks ,but ours liked Lidl,s beef cat food ,like Pledgey said its trial n error .You,d think rats would eat anything but you can trick them ,a cheap red led above the feed seems to draw their curious nasty selves in and pop you do the rest.

99p got me a dozen from china and a 9v batttery is all u need to power it atb

[big napper 3,607]

Whatever you use make sure its a liquid or paste so they can grab it and run off, once you know what they like stick with it for a good while,

Iv used loads of different baits, beef paste, peanut butter, gravy, margerine, butter, they will eat almost anything.

[C.green 3,231]

Surstromming ?

[stumfelter 3,034]

Fill a feeder with wheat, if it's anything like our shoot they'll be round it like flies round sh*t!

[Jonjon79 13,358]

I've never used bait - the 2 places that I have for rat shooting, we've sussed out their runs and, where they go for food.

 

One is a huge grain silo - they live in the banks by it and, come out under a near by pallet for the spilled grain.

 

The other is a pig farm - they run through the bushes at the back of the pens and, we usually shoot them off the troughs.

 

They can be wary of anything new so, I just leave them to do what they know and, pick them off while they go about their business

[mattwhite 1,993]

We had an elderly people's home pulled down a few years back opposite our house that backed onto fields so all the local rats moved en masse and created havoc with poultry etc.

I used fish skins from work to bait them and they never failed?

[Lee.m 142]

Thanks everyone you have all been very helpful as usual