Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[cluckcluckluke]

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Sounds like you have a bit of a plague there

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Who is the farrier?

My rats are silly. Everyone I have talked to say that rats and mice will get into those off-the-floor feeders but my rats can't do it to mine for some reason.lol.
Also they only go into the nest shed and there is NO food there at all.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Sounds like you have a bit of a plague there .
Who is the farrier?

My rats are silly. Everyone I have talked to say that rats and mice will get into those off-the-floor feeders but my rats can't do it to mine for some reason.lol.
Also they only go into the nest shed and there is NO food there at all.

The farrier is the blacksmith, he shoes the horses. I can't leave food in the feeders because of the rats. When I did, I opened the top to refill one day and a black rat jumped out . I nearly had a coronary. ( heart attack ). My chooks get fed morning and night.

 

[TheChookPatch]

I've got big ones here too fancy, one of my mama hens earned the name Ripley by killing the most giant rat I have ever seen...

 

[Fancychooklady]

I've got big ones here too fancy, one of my mama hens earned the name Ripley by killing the most giant rat I have ever seen...

Lol,

 

[Bens-Hens]

Lol, go Ripley!

Bucket traps don't need to have water in them, or even be in a bucket.

I have used them all over the world for both mice and rats with fantastic results. A mine I used to work on used the 20l white bucket version to get mice plagues under control. It was against company policy to drown the captured critters, so the buckets were dry, live mice were taken to a 'humane processing' donga where they were killed by gassing. Daily capture numbers went from the 1000's to under a hundred in a few months.

For the case of swimmers, you could make the same trap system in a larger wheelie bin or plastic drum (even a 44), dry in the bottom and gas them. I watched another video of a DIY system using car exhaust but I think a nitrogen cylinder would be a better way to go if you have the money to hire a bottle.

I know some people don't like that sort of processing, but some of the places I have been have had numbers so high they really were out of control and making people crook.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

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Ohhh, ok

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I really, really despise rats. They just make my skin writhe.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Lol, go Ripley!

Bucket traps don't need to have water in them, or even be in a bucket.

I have used them all over the world for both mice and rats with fantastic results. A mine I used to work on used the 20l white bucket version to get mice plagues under control. It was against company policy to drown the captured critters, so the buckets were dry, live mice were taken to a 'humane processing' donga where they were killed by gassing. Daily capture numbers went from the 1000's to under a hundred in a few months.

For the case of swimmers, you could make the same trap system in a larger wheelie bin or plastic drum (even a 44), dry in the bottom and gas them. I watched another video of a DIY system using car exhaust but I think a nitrogen cylinder would be a better way to go if you have the money to hire a bottle.

I know some people don't like that sort of processing, but some of the places I have been have had numbers so high they really were out of control and making people crook.

Oh my numbers are most certainly not this. Maybe 10 at the most.
So all I have to do it put a bucket with some seed in and a ladder up to it and they will just jump in?
Yeah I too have heard about the exhaust trick. Not something that I am able to do though.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Lol, go Ripley!

Bucket traps don't need to have water in them, or even be in a bucket.

I have used them all over the world for both mice and rats with fantastic results. A mine I used to work on used the 20l white bucket version to get mice plagues under control. It was against company policy to drown the captured critters, so the buckets were dry, live mice were taken to a 'humane processing' donga where they were killed by gassing. Daily capture numbers went from the 1000's to under a hundred in a few months.

For the case of swimmers, you could make the same trap system in a larger wheelie bin or plastic drum (even a 44), dry in the bottom and gas them. I watched another video of a DIY system using car exhaust but I think a nitrogen cylinder would be a better way to go if you have the money to hire a bottle.

I know some people don't like that sort of processing, but some of the places I have been have had numbers so high they really were out of control and making people crook.

Mmm, now I get it. I might give it a go.

 

[Bens-Hens]

No seed,

This is pretty much how I have made them, also used the big plastic garbage bins too.

I have also make a ramp with a plank and also a thick rope with knots tied in it.

Some foreign places we put water in them and just topped up the PB every day, on the mine we captured them daily. I have seen grain farmers make them with rows of steel 44's, but thats for the big plague outbreaks.

 

[satay]

No seed, This is pretty much how I have made them, also used the big plastic garbage bins too. I have also make a ramp with a plank and also a thick rope with knots tied in it. Some foreign places we put water in them and just topped up the PB every day, on the mine we captured them daily. I have seen grain farmers make them with rows of steel 44's, but thats for the big plague outbreaks.

I might have to try that one Ben