The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[varidgerunner]

Get some rodent bait stations that are plastic and snap closed, they have spikes for putting bait on and they are made to perfectly fit a t-rex rat trap. They like going in the holes and the way the thing is enclosed they have no choice but to get caught.

 

[Leahs Mom]

For awhile I was putting a rat trap in a clear plastic "rubbermade" container that is about shoe box size. I cut an entrance in the long end then put the trap inside. This was setup so that the chickens wouldn't get into the trap. I set it outside a chipmunk hole and they would go in time after time. Caught a bunch of them that way.

While I've never seen a rat, I don't want to see on either! I wonder if the rats would go in one of those or not.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Get some rodent bait stations that are plastic and snap closed, they have spikes for putting bait on and they are made to perfectly fit a t-rex rat trap. They like going in the holes and the way the thing is enclosed they have no choice but to get caught.

Can you post a link to the kind you're talking about, please?

 

[Molpet]

Can you post a link to the kind you're talking about, please?

http://www.belllabs.com/product_details/canada-pest-control-trapper-t-rex
http://www.belllabs.com/product_details/united-states-pest-control-protecta-evo-ambush

 

[varidgerunner]

That is exactly what I was talking about. They like going in the hole so much you don't really need bait. Works on chipmunks or rats. You can do the same thing with old school rat traps and shoe boxes, but the plastic ones will last longer.

 

[Leahs Mom]

@Molpet and @varidgerunner

Have either of you used the Evo Ambush linked above with success?

 

[varidgerunner]

Almost a jillion times! I do pest control when I'm not keeping chickens. I've got a truck load of those things. Rats, chipmunks, all sorts of small vermin.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Almost a jillion times! I do pest control when I'm not keeping chickens. I've got a truck load of those things. Rats, chipmunks, all sorts of small vermin.

Do you use any special bait on them? Also, what bait attracts rats, chipmunks and mice?

I keep wondering if those liquid baits that you squirt on traps would attract rats that you don't already have!

 

[varidgerunner]

They come with a key to open them. If you order some TIE A PIECE OF WIRE TO THE KEY AND TIE THE OTHER END TO A STICK OF FIREWOOD SPRAY PAINTED ORANGE. Or else you will have to use a screw driver to pry them open at risk of stabbing yourself and getting rat guts in the wound. It is nice that they have a locking feature, (it's just a cheezy little plastic tab, but there are two of them) you can put them right in the coop.

 

[varidgerunner]

I usually use peanut butter, or sunflower butter, since a lot of people have peanut allergies, but bacon grease works good for rats that are afraid of peanut butter.