Why rat traps are uselss for rats

[shelleyd2008]

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If the guineas and geese wouldn't kill it I'd say send it on over!

But these silly birds don't like slithering creatures

 

[RioLindoAz]

Log on more often.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Yup, we get ones that big here. i gave up on the snap traps and rat zappers. Not sure i would have it in me to stomp on something that big. i would think that would just piss him off.

 

[theFox]

Bear traps with auxiliary teeth might take one of those big ones out, other than that I recommend a http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/BL_8_Mk_7_8-inch_Howitze.JPG .

 

[silkiechicken]

I'd take a snake, but it's probably too cold in the PNW for them to survive outside where I need them!

Dang thing is fat off chicken feed... however, is not the biggest one I have seen. The largest rat I've seen was in an alley way down near 4th street in Seattle. Freaky thing was the size of a small cat. Body was as big around as the trap I am holding in the pic. You'd have sworn it was a possum if you hadn't seen many possums. Dang rats probably just eat the entire rat zapper before they could fit their head inside.

Cat's must have taken out all the mice, don't think they wanted to deal with these rats. If you stomp one, do it very fast and very hard. They really are tough.

 

[aduplantis]

OMG !! That is a huge rat. I'm glad I never saw one of those where I live. We do have egg eater snakes. I never saw anything like that near my coop. Thank God !!

 

[speedy2020]

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I got few much bigger than that one and I didn't expect that either. I am also surprise I got 14 of them.

 

[YoYofranko]

Good catch. We have bloody rats under our hen house and were really struggling to catch them. For some reason there just not falling for anything we try. Humane traps they wont enter no matter what bait we use but they take the bait from around, electric traps they wont enter, they wont eat the poison we've put under our massive feed bin where they've made tunnels. The only thing they seem to fall for is the snappy traps which i really dont like as i always nearly trap my fingers setting them. I think i might try a larger trap now but to be honest i think i have very intelligent rats.
Does anyone know if ferrets can be used for rat holes we cant see any alternative?.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

YoYofranko, what i tend to end up using here with the stubborn ones who won't eat the bait is a pellet gun. i'm not a great shot but if i wait patiently at dusk until a little head pokes out from under the coop, i can generally get them. Or with our playhouse coop at the back of our chicken yard i will put a hose underneath (as the ground is sloped and the water will run off) i sit and wait for them to run out. It's a bit time consuming, but more effective than the snap traps or Rat Zapper (which they either won't go in or won't fit in).

i hate rats.

 

[Imp]

The largest rat I've seen was in an alley way down near 4th street in Seattle. Freaky thing was the size of a small cat.

silkie...,
I'm glad you said that. I was going to say the rats in downtown Seattle are the size of cats, but thought that sounded like an exaggeration.
I lived up on Capital Hill and drove off the hill to go to work before the sun was up. In the dark they only way I could tell the difference was if the silhouette had a fuzzy tail or not.

Imp​