Rat and mouse traps

[JK22]

I was out with a biologist a while back and made the comment about snakes eating mice. He said "not as many as people think". I don't know if he meant snakes in general, or just our common garter snakes.

Pet snakes eat once a week, pretty much regardless of what kind. So yea... they probably don’t eat many mice.

 

[gstrom99]

I use Duke or Freedom Brand (lots of choices) dog proof traps, to catch raccoons. I have found several rats in the traps, caught head first.

 

[sixdogs]

Voles chew off my fruit trees below ground. Hate them.

We had similar issues including white grubs (Japanese beetles) and all the critters that feed on them and then my fruit trees. Moles and voles come for the grubs and stay for the trees. Take away their primary food sources. One is the grubs that seem to be everywhere. Maybe it's a problem at your place. Voles and moles eat 24/7 and grubs are easy pickin'.

By accident, I put down the spring grub killer "Acelypryn". It's a chemical added to fertilizer or just granules you broadcast. I like to broadcast granules as opposed to liquid because it gets in all the hidden spots. Anyway, after the first year, grub population was near zero and beetles down maybe only 85% because of their two year emerging cycle. The burrowing and critter population was way down, especially as summer progressed. Year two had zero grubs and I could not find a burrowing critter. I'm sold on Acelypryn. It's lower impact and doesn't hurt honey bees.

Just an FYI.

 

[Jstpssng]

I use Duke or Freedom Brand (lots of choices) dog proof traps, to catch raccoons. I have found several rats in the traps, caught head first.

What do you use for bait? I've heard that marshmallows work well.
I bought one of those a few years ago when the coons were killing my chickens, but before it arrived I took care of them with "other methods."

 

[two_bit_score]

We had similar issues including white grubs (Japanese beetles) and all the critters that feed on them and then my fruit trees. Moles and voles come for the grubs and stay for the trees. Take away their primary food sources. One is the grubs that seem to be everywhere. Maybe it's a problem at your place. Voles and moles eat 24/7 and grubs are easy pickin'.

By accident, I put down the spring grub killer "Acelypryn". It's a chemical added to fertilizer or just granules you broadcast. I like to broadcast granules as opposed to liquid because it gets in all the hidden spots. Anyway, after the first year, grub population was near zero and beetles down maybe only 85% because of their two year emerging cycle. The burrowing and critter population was way down, especially as summer progressed. Year two had zero grubs and I could not find a burrowing critter. I'm sold on Acelypryn. It's lower impact and doesn't hurt honey bees.

Just an FYI.

Very interesting FYI - thank you for the information.

I'm curious about what concentration you used. Some of that stuff is expensive.

 

[goeduck]

We had similar issues including white grubs (Japanese beetles) and all the critters that feed on them and then my fruit trees. Moles and voles come for the grubs and stay for the trees. Take away their primary food sources. One is the grubs that seem to be everywhere. Maybe it's a problem at your place. Voles and moles eat 24/7 and grubs are easy pickin'.

By accident, I put down the spring grub killer "Acelypryn". It's a chemical added to fertilizer or just granules you broadcast. I like to broadcast granules as opposed to liquid because it gets in all the hidden spots. Anyway, after the first year, grub population was near zero and beetles down maybe only 85% because of their two year emerging cycle. The burrowing and critter population was way down, especially as summer progressed. Year two had zero grubs and I could not find a burrowing critter. I'm sold on Acelypryn. It's lower impact and doesn't hurt honey bees.

Just an FYI.

Very good information, do you know it it is taken up by the fruit trees? That would be a downside.

 

[5030]

Got my Ketch All with the drowning attachment in the mail the other day and put it to immediate use and got 4 in a single night. All did the fatal backstroke.

 

[5030]

Voles chew off my fruit trees below ground. Hate them.

Not an issue here. The outside cats get them. Must be tasty too.

 

[5030]

Tell her, that I know from first hand experience,, that mice swim about as good as Fat Albert!!
IT is FAST :thumbsup:

See #107 and chuckle...

 

[Alien]

Got my Ketch All with the drowning attachment in the mail the other day and put it to immediate use and got 4 in a single night. All did the fatal backstroke.

The magpies here watch me empty the traps and come down to clean up the mice I throw out. They love them.