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[sourland]

Sounds like a great day Cap. Beautiful autumn day here.

 

[CSolis]

I did find my one and only rat snap trap and baited it up with bacon wired to the holder. This bugger better eat that bacon and get caught because my husband whimpered when he saw me wire that slice of hog belly to that trap!

Bacon is sacred.

Peanut butter on a ritz cracker is a real attractive bait too!

 

[bruceha2000]

I don't sing. Haven't done so since the church choir director asked if I could just mouth the words - true story.

That would be me as well, and DW.

 

[microchick]

Peanut butter on a ritz cracker is a real attractive bait too!

No Ritz crackers but I did put peanut butter on the Ramik bait. No takers!

This is one smart raton!

 

[bruceha2000]

Odd, I put the Ramik down their tunnels several days running and when they stopped disappearing I stopped seeing rats. No "enticement" needed on the Ramik.

 

[microchick]

Yeah, I thought so too, Bruce. Usually a little peanut butter smeared on the bait and the vermin are lining up like it's an all you can eat buffet. I had one Rat steal the whole chunk of bait. Knew that one was a gonner at that point.

Funny thing is that I set the holder right near where it is continuously repairing it's tunnels that I meticulously destroy every day. Bait is completely ignored. I'll say this for it, it's determined to have tunnels.

I've put bait down the tunnels before with good results but the problem is, this varmint is entering the run from a tunnel entrance on the outside of the fence and burrowing under the fence into the Bachelor's run. I'd put bait down where it is tunneling in but we have these really really really STUPID dogs and right now the last thing I want to do is pour peroxide down their throats and rush them to the vets for Vitamin K injections. So that means that the bait and traps have to be put down after the birds are locked up, and picked up every morning when I let them out.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Sounds like a great day Cap. Beautiful autumn day here.

It was lovely!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, I thought so too, Bruce. Usually a little peanut butter smeared on the bait and the vermin are lining up like it's an all you can eat buffet. I had one Rat steal the whole chunk of bait. Knew that one was a gonner at that point.

Funny thing is that I set the holder right near where it is continuously repairing it's tunnels that I meticulously destroy every day. Bait is completely ignored. I'll say this for it, it's determined to have tunnels.

I've put bait down the tunnels before with good results but the problem is, this varmint is entering the run from a tunnel entrance on the outside of the fence and burrowing under the fence into the Bachelor's run. I'd put bait down where it is tunneling in but we have these really really really STUPID dogs and right now the last thing I want to do is pour peroxide down their throats and rush them to the vets for Vitamin K injections. So that means that the bait and traps have to be put down after the birds are locked up, and picked up every morning when I let them out.

Could you put a crate around the area so rats get in but dogs and chickens don't ?

 

[microchick]

I'm not sure how I could do it, Cap. The entrance tunnel is about 3 inches outside the hot wire I have around the bottom of my run. The hot wire is secured by 5 inch long insulators that are set about 4 inches above the ground which is why it burrowing in outside the hot wire area.

I haven't seen any sign of movement from it during the day, only at night and I've been setting the bait holders on the inside of the run near the exit tunnels. Today I took a shovel and destroyed all the tunnels I could find fully expecting it to try to dig new ones tonight. Hopefully it will find the bacon baited trap too tempting to resist.

 

[drumstick diva]

waiting to see/hear how this turns out Micro.