Thread: Bird Predator Control

He looked to be in a real hurry

Hi @Dead Rat good to see you on here

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I recently mounted a NZ Auto Trap for a neighbour three sections away from me - he has a large partly bush covered section that runs down to the estuary - part of the day it is wet mudflats with plenty of scrub and rubbish on the other side - a haven for rats that run across to his section. He is overseas a lot and values his birdlife highly so has invested in about ten Victor boxes, three GN A24s, numerous bait stations and just recently two new NZ Auto traps.
He wanted the traps where he kills lots of rats - in a specific tree (so I had to install a post) - as well as on a nice cabbage tree at another site - in each case using a half round ramp for the rats to run up to the trap.
This has to be my most ugly trap mount ever - but I was required to ensure that Ringo and George were not able to access the trap - so I figured a mesh tube on the ramp might stop his wife’s beloved cats from having their heads reshaped. After mounting the trap, the ramp and the mesh tube - I left it to him to modify the top end of the tube to ensure the trap was cat proof - a bit messy but rats will climb over most things - will be easy to change if it doesn’t work.
I had the pleasure of filling the lure container and connecting the battery - watched the wheel turn around and I waved a piece of agapanthus between the light sensors - Whammo! - the spring power seems very similar to a Doc250.
No possums in the area so he is solely after rats and mustilids. I saw him just before the lockdown and he told me there was evidence of an animal having been smashed in the trap - but no victims left on site.
This is an impressive piece of kit (if you can afford $330) - in the right situation it will no doubt perform well for a year with no attention - and will kill anything from possums to rats. I was intrigued to see they provide a flexible rat ladder at the bottom of the trap to touch the ramp - up the ladder and into the kill zone of the trap - something we may be able to utilise on some other sets.
https://nzautotraps.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O736QM-wzo8

Far out that is impressive !!!!

One hell of a ramp to get up into the kill zone.

Never heard of them @time out. Good on you for posting !!

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Going to be interesting to see how it goes, time out please keep us updated.

Freshened up all my traps today.

Got a surprise on the way around, haven't seen this very often.





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Yep well I got a surprise also with my swamp comp prize,
Put it on the side of my compost heap where I know there’s mice and the odd rat and the hog is all I have caught in nearly 4 weeks.
1 Kudos for the A24 tho .... stone dead.

Brilliant

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Beats getting them out of a 200, lol.

Seen this one sneaking around here on three separate occasions.

Seeing that I'm home every day at the moment, thought I'd bait the cage trap.



Today was the 4th time id seen it and I won't be seeing it again



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Obviously not the priority at the moment but they mentioned in the news they have discovered ferrets were subseptable to covid 19, hence that’s what they are testing the first vaccine attempts on.

Possibly a silver lining but also possibly another nightmare waiting to happen if they can transmit it, I have no idea, time will tell but another reason to glove up when dealing with critters

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Obviously not the priority at the moment but they mentioned in the news they have discovered ferrets were subseptable to covid 19, hence that’s what they are testing the first vaccine attempts on.

Possibly a silver lining but also possibly another nightmare waiting to happen if they can transmit it, I have no idea, time will tell but another reason to glove up when dealing with critters

Where did you hear that?

Originally Posted by Hiawatha

Where did you hear that?

I can back that up as i listened to head of the australian company conducting the tests on ferrets being interviewed on RNZ last week.

He said they have used them (ferrets) before when testing for the SARS 1 virus.

He also said that the ferrets lung structure closely resembles that of a human making them an ideal lab animal for respiratory testing.

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Can’t beat a cage to catch a sneaky cat kukuwai - they always make a bad mistake at some stage

I had an interesting experience at home - an RCD tripped a couple of days back - just as I put the jug on its base -thought it was stuffed - but the RCD didn’t trip again and the jug was fine - strange??
Out in the garage yesterday - something smells strange around here - searched high and low - nothing
Out in the garage this morning - I can smell death somewhere - maybe in the freezer - has it shit itself? - no still going fine - checked a TRex in a box on one end of the freezer - no bait - bloody mouse somewhere - pulled the other end off the freezer - ahh - there he is - across some terminals - that's what tripped the RCD
A good lesson - its getting cold outside - they are looking for a warm spot somewhere in our houses - so I set up another four trap boxes around the garage and under the Heat pump compressor unit - bastard Snap-e got my thumb while I was setting a hair trigger - going black now

Time out I remember you sending me a photo of you with 2 black thumb nails, sorry mate couldnt help myself LOL.

I am almost catching a mouse a night in my shed they certainly are on the move into warmer places. I reckon those little wooden base Victor mouse traps are the best catchers, they dont take any prisoners thats for sure.