What home made recipes do people have for there favourite rat bait for encouraging rats to come out while rat shooting
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What home made recipes do people have for there favourite rat bait for encouraging rats to come out while rat shooting
Last edited by pigeonfan; 27-06-2020 at 04:55 PM.
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I used to use peanut butter or watered down dog food (so that they couldn’t pick it up and run off with it)
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Peanut butter --mixed with wild bird food or them fat balls smashed up -you can stick it into the little bags that you get with some washing tablets -tie it near by after baiting them into the area you want -but sometimes they can chew it off the tie and leg it but you usually get some fun first --I have herd of lads using mackerel heads and the unwanted fish after taken the fillets off -but this will stick to high heavens so best not left near any buildings or pens
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I use cheap fish flavoured cat food mixed with instant potato mash.(sloppy consistency)
I find they hang around longer rather than doing a “smash & grab”
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should that be "Mash and Crab"!!!Originally Posted by Stevenz
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Lol, that’s what I’m going to rebrand it has from now on. If it ever goes into production of course you will get the royalties from the branding
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I have 4 traps dotted around in wooden boxes; each box has one or two holes about 7cm diameter for rat to enter. Why boxes? To keep cats and other things out ... even squirrels will not go into a box.
But ... not a lot of success even though we have tried peanut butter in the trap 'bowl', bird seed (predominantly wheat), cat food, bread even some old mozarella cheese. But as I said, very little success. This is despite seeing a rat or two in the area of the box and the box being on the rat run. Box is about 30cm x 25cm internal x 15cm high with either open wire mesh top or a solid top.
At times the bait has gone but trap not sprung ... maybe mice which are too light to spring the trap? Traps are either the plastic ones with a 'jaw' that closes or a plastic base with strong steel traditional spring action.
I tend to think we have got it wrong somewhere ...
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Im looking for a good bait to entice the rats out so that they can be shot, do people think the smellier the bait is the better it is
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Definitely, that’s why I use fish flavoured rather than beef or chicken pet foods. I’v Tried all flavours & fish seems to work the best, probably because it’s the smelliest
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smooth (cheap) peanut butter, cheap chocolate (brown fat) spread
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Set up bait points with a different bait on each. See what your rats like.
A lot of peeps dont realise rats can be very smart and they learn quick.
A recebmnr residential job... there was a lot of activity running across 0atio and lawn and under bushes. 1 shot and they all changed there daily routine. Extreme reaction but some are really on the ball using younger rats as testers on food to see if they die or something new and unfamiliar.
Your rats will have their own regime depending on the environment around them.
They respond to foods around them so a spread of baits will quickly tell you what they lean to.
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