Anyone ever use these?

[Judy]

Shelley, there is nothing wrong with the trap you found, but what I love about BYC (and the web, for that matter) is that so often, someone has come up with a way to do things without spending so much money!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Sounds like a good idea to me.

Any box, of course; just a container to keep chickens and dogs and such away from the bait.

Now if only I could figure a way to do it to get the rats too.

I suppose I could drop some in the holes they have dug, hopefully they wouldn't drag them out. I'm sure if I made a hole big enough for a rat, the bantams would just waltz right in

 

[Judy]

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Sounds like a good idea to me.

Any box, of course; just a container to keep chickens and dogs and such away from the bait.

Now if only I could figure a way to do it to get the rats too.

I suppose I could drop some in the holes they have dug, hopefully they wouldn't drag them out. I'm sure if I made a hole big enough for a rat, the bantams would just waltz right in

I have two dirt floor coops, and occasionally the rats dig tunnels that come up in the coops, usually under my metal garbage cans that hold my feed. I just stick a One Bite bar in it and cover it back up. It's usually a few months before I see another tunnel.

I'd probably do the PB and plaster of Paris thing, and stuff that down the hole, but I have to drive 50 miles to get the plaster of Paris and can get the One Bite locally -- and I'm still working on the first package of One Bite bars I bought. Probably because I have two dogs who actively dig and kill rats and mice around here.

Just cover the opening with a brick, or chunk of concrete block, or whatever you have laying around that the chickens can't move. Fill a 5 gallon bucket with water and put a lid on it, and put that over the hole, if you have to. Whatever.

Don't quite get why you would need to make a hole for a rat; they make their own here; I find their tunnels and stick the poison in them, then cover the hole so no one else can get at the poison. Should work the same with the PB and plaster of paris.

 

[shelleyd2008]

No, I was thinking of the box with a hole thing. Most of the holes they have dug go under the walls of the barn, or under (and into) the pigeons' coop.

I would much rather use the PB/POP thing, I'm not sure where to get the POP though. Would they carry it at a hardware store?

 

[92caddy]

We use em for the mice and they work good.

The rats we use small live traps and I pee down their holes, they wont use the hole after I pee down it, heheheh, its true I really do, and it works............

 

[redhen]

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Yeah Shelley, try it!

 

[92caddy]

 

[Judy]

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Maybe. I'd have to drive to the Michael's craft store for it, 30 miles from here. I think WalMart also has it; have no idea what dept., though. Let your fingers do the walking.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Yeah Shelley, try it! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/10638_pics.gif

Sorry red, don't think my aims that good

 

[redhen]

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Yeah Shelley, try it! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/10638_pics.gif

Sorry red, don't think my aims that good