How about keeping a live trap going 24/7 in season?

[Mattemma]

If I still had my havahart trap I woild set it every day tonly thing I would hate to catch is a skunk.

 

[deerman]

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Yep , i caught 6 this year..............not fun

 

[poultryfan73]

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X2

 

[jmc]

Wow!! Great minds think alike, I guess,

I am surprised and really psyched that many do this. I actually expected a bunch of negative answers. Not even one.........yet..........

thanks, I don't feel so obsessive now.

 

[Lollipop]

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X2

I`ll X3 that. I invested in a large live trap and keep it baited with a couple whole eggs. They last about a month, if nothing eats them and I don`t have to deal with messy rebaiting on a daily basis. Eggs will catch almost anything except bobcats. Everyone that keeps chickens needs a trap and a gun......Pop

 

[jmc]

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I`ll X3 that. I invested in a large live trap and keep it baited with a couple whole eggs. They last about a month, if nothing eats them and I don`t have to deal with messy rebaiting on a daily basis. Eggs will catch almost anything except bobcats. Everyone that keeps chickens needs a trap and a gun......Pop


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Spansil/Coon002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Spansil/2006-03-10001.jpg

great info, all!


But here's a poss. downside. You catch something the 'wrong size' (either too big or less likely, too small), then it escapes and never comes near ANY live trap again.

thoughts on this one?

 

[deerman]

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I`ll X3 that. I invested in a large live trap and keep it baited with a couple whole eggs. They last about a month, if nothing eats them and I don`t have to deal with messy rebaiting on a daily basis. Eggs will catch almost anything except bobcats. Everyone that keeps chickens needs a trap and a gun......Pop


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Spansil/Coon002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Spansil/2006-03-10001.jpg

great info, all!


But here's a poss. downside. You catch something the 'wrong size' (either too big or less likely, too small), then it escapes and never comes near ANY live trap again.

thoughts on this one?

Any traps i have once in ,they don't get out........had coons so large they fill the trap, even rip off the trip plate, I feed them before taking them out of the trap..............................................LEAD THAT IS.

If they are small enough to get out....to small to trip the trap. 1" square wire.

 

[Lollipop]

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I`ll X3 that. I invested in a large live trap and keep it baited with a couple whole eggs. They last about a month, if nothing eats them and I don`t have to deal with messy rebaiting on a daily basis. Eggs will catch almost anything except bobcats. Everyone that keeps chickens needs a trap and a gun......Pop


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Spansil/Coon002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/Spansil/2006-03-10001.jpg

great info, all!


But here's a poss. downside. You catch something the 'wrong size' (either too big or less likely, too small), then it escapes and never comes near ANY live trap again.

thoughts on this one?

I have a solution to that one, too. Can`t post it on open forum. If you have that problem, PM me.........Pop

 

[henney penny]

I have two live traps set for aabout 6 weeks now to catch skunks,they will kill chickens and I have a puppy that I don`t want sprayed,and they dig my lawn up awful looking for grubs

 

[jmc]

has anyone set up a live trap 'just anywhere' or where you have seen a pest?

also, putting eggs in the trap.............but they give off no scent. i am talking about an unbroken egg.

if you put a blob of fish guts, or cat food, or even a crushed veggie of some sort, then you can also attract by SMELL; but with the egg thing, if whatever-it-is doesn't SEE it, you ain't neva gonna get it!!

I have been running hard boiled eggs in two of mine (a rabbit size trap and a coon/cat size trap) and--surprise--have not caught anything..............