Thread: Bird Predator Control

Nothing exciting to report - just rats and more rats
A steady stream of them at the farm - Victors, Snaps and Timms doing the job - usually 4 or 5 each day I go around the traps
There seems to have been a rat explosion at the Park - two of us really getting into them at present - 84 rats and 7 possums for April - 42 rats and 1 possum so far for seven days in May - many more to come as we trap new areas
During the last week or so I have been seeing rats stripped to the bone on a couple of trap sites - I wasn’t sure if it was a cat, stoat or maybe a big rat
On one site I had a ramp with a single trap - I caught several rats that were stripped - so I installed a second trap and more ramps - I got another rat that was stripped - back again a couple of days later and got a very large rat that was still alive - so I assume he was the cannibal - I left him on top of the ramps to see what might eat him - back again yesterday - the cannibal was untouched - but two of his mates had come to check on him - so I have left three dead rats on the site - will see what has come back tomorrow - all lured in with GN Possum Paste
I have tried moving more traps from near the ground, up onto ramps - often with instant results - I reckon they like something different like running up a ramp
Kill numbers at the Park are good but we are just scratching the surface at this stage - we just got 10 GN A24s with counters - so need to put them in some hard to access places - gulley’s are shit places for old fellas
I have been trying a few different lures - changed from Connovation blue stuff to GN chocolate paste but now gone back to my old favourite GN orange possum paste - they love it

Three rats stripped on this ramp


The big cannibal - still very much alive - for a few moments


The cannibal and two mates that came to check on him