Best baits for trapping!

[DigDeepIRL 17]

This may be discussed previous!i did try have a search and found nothing!

Looking to see what opinions people have for bait for rats?

Also live fox traps?

I currently use sardines for the fox trap!

Any real leftover food for the rat traps or else a sweet smelling horse feed!

Someone told me peanut butter which i use for mouse traps and when i tried outside for rats i found that the bait was always gone and i trap never gone off!Field mice?

[Welsh_red 4,711]

37 minutes ago, DigDeepIRL said:

This may be discussed previous!i did try have a search and found nothing!

Looking to see what opinions people have for bait for rats?

Also live fox traps?

I currently use sardines for the fox trap!

Any real leftover food for the rat traps or else a sweet smelling horse feed!

Someone told me peanut butter which i use for mouse traps and when i tried outside for rats i found that the bait was always gone and i trap never gone off!Field mice?

I've had mice pinching bait before . 

Light as a feather

[EDDIE B 3,166]

Great picture Red. Here's one i took 

 

[Welsh_red 4,711]

14 minutes ago, EDDIE B said:

Great picture Red. Here's one i took 

 

Obviously that one didn't take the same gymnastic course mine did 

[EDDIE B 3,166]

8 hours ago, Welsh_red said:

Obviously that one didn't take the same gymnastic course mine did 

Another one of Ireland's invasive species.

[Deker 3,478]

13 hours ago, DigDeepIRL said:

This may be discussed previous!i did try have a search and found nothing!

Looking to see what opinions people have for bait for rats? Chocolate/jam/fish/peanut butter/almost anything smelly

Also live fox traps?  Dog/cat food, rabbit etc

I currently use sardines for the fox trap!

Any real leftover food for the rat traps or else a sweet smelling horse feed!

Someone told me peanut butter which i use for mouse traps and when i tried outside for rats i found that the bait was always gone and i trap never gone off!Field mice?

 

[DwayneMoton 0]

First of all, know the type of rat before using any trap.

[Deker 3,478]

Just now, DwayneMoton said:

First of all, know the type of rat before using any trap.

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There is almost exclusively only one rat in the UK, the Norwegian or Brown rat, Black rats are very rare and only found in some coastal areas to the best of my knowledge, I've never come across one in many years of doing this?

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Rattus Norvegicus

[Torquemada 288]

 The Black Rat was put on the critically endangered red list in the UK. Quite why the conservation people would do this is beyond me because it's a bloody animal we could do without.

[DigDeepIRL 17]

Even here in ireland in all my time in the country i dont think ive ever seen a black rat!Not saying there not here its just brown seems to be the boys!

[EDDIE B 3,166]

You would wonder how any rat species would struggle to thrive. Maybe their bigger brown cousins has something to do with that

[LuckOrJudgement 437]

On 07/07/2018 at 10:43, Deker said:

 

I baited some Snap E traps outdoors for rats with peanut butter and found them stripped clean - and I mean not a trace - within 24 hours. Reckon it must have been ants?

[Welsh_red 4,711]

11 minutes ago, LuckOrJudgement said:

I baited some Snap E traps outdoors for rats with peanut butter and found them stripped clean - and I mean not a trace - within 24 hours. Reckon it must have been ants?

Slugs,?

[Deker 3,478]

56 minutes ago, LuckOrJudgement said:

I baited some Snap E traps outdoors for rats with peanut butter and found them stripped clean - and I mean not a trace - within 24 hours. Reckon it must have been ants?

I like the Snap E Traps, if these were properly boxed then I'd be confident rats didn't eat the bait.  The outer boxes funnel the rat to the killing zone and VERY FEW get away!