Thread: Bird Predator Control

A mate up Kaipara South Head caught this ferret yesterday - he is not on this forum but is happy for me to post it - a nasty little critter
Hope the video works

Originally Posted by time out

A mate up Kaipara South Head caught this ferret yesterday - he is not on this forum but is happy for me to post it - a nasty little critter
Hope the video works

Happy little fella that one, so grateful for being locked up! Bagsy not trying to get him out alive.

This new Victor box is working well - big rat been dealt to by something that managed to turn it inside out - my mate reckoned it might have been a hawk - although I got my one and only stoat pretty close so maybe more of them out there
Still getting a couple of rats and hogs each trip round the farm
I live on a one acre section near the city - using a magpie trap with mirrors to clean up hogs - No23 had a look in the mirror last night - sick of them - I hope they hibernate in the winter





Tidied up and ready for the next one

Just a note about the Predator Free NZ - Webinar - 5th of May 7.30pm - anyone can register and join in - with Darren Peters (DOC's resident trapping expert)

Learn how to get the most out of your DOC traps (250, 200 and 150). Sign up for the online discussion on 5th May at 7.30pm by clicking this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/reg...35607911960068

I sat in on the first PFNZ Webinar on Goodnature traps - it was excellent

Looks like a little sweety

There is no end to these bastards coming in from the neighbours - you just have to keep checking the traps - only one rat and a mouse today - looks like he has been into my Pestoff bait - would give you the shits



But the upside of all the trapping is more of these beautiful birds - they have been over in the orchards but are coming back in good numbers - watched this guy today for about five minutes

just bought 5 of those snap-e rat traps to use around our house. caught three on the first night. Baited with peanut butter. Interested what people recommend for bait, cant keep raiding the peanut butter. caught one mouse but a couple traps are getting cleaned out without going off. mice i assume on a trap thats not hairy enough? also one or two traps triggered with no catch, seems like a critter could approach the trap from the safe end and trip the plate and not get caught, could be the mice again too? there are a lot of mice around here at the moment nailed about 15 so far trying to move into our house!! Using the grey "better mouse trap" from the supermarket work really well on the mice.

Originally Posted by takeuchi

just bought 5 of those snap-e rat traps to use around our house. caught three on the first night. Baited with peanut butter. Interested what people recommend for bait, cant keep raiding the peanut butter. caught one mouse but a couple traps are getting cleaned out without going off. mice i assume on a trap thats not hairy enough? also one or two traps triggered with no catch, seems like a critter could approach the trap from the safe end and trip the plate and not get caught, could be the mice again too? there are a lot of mice around here at the moment nailed about 15 so far trying to move into our house!! Using the grey "better mouse trap" from the supermarket work really well on the mice.

The "Better" mousetrap is excellent for mice compared to the spring-wire-n-wood traditional type which classically gets picked clean. Sorry, peanut butter IS still best. Use the non-crunchy variety and push it well into the pressure plate nobbles.

Of course you don't want to feed mice and it could be playing on your mind that the little critters are picking your traps clean. If that is so, don't react by being stingy with bait! Rather, place as much as possible of your chosen bait on the pressure plate, stopping just short of triggering the trap: you have now set a hair trigger.

That being said, some "Better Mousetraps" could be better off the shelf than other "Betters" - try numbering them and see if it is always the same ones that get picked.

Saw a great mouse trap in a tramping hut, empty wine bottle on it side with peanut butter inside the neck, butter/oil on the outside of neck and hang it over the edge of a bench above a bucket of water. Was in the Eyre mountains for a mouse plague, 45 in the bucket in the morning, same again the second night!

Originally Posted by 223nut

Saw a great mouse trap in a tramping hut, empty wine bottle on it side with peanut butter inside the neck, butter/oil on the outside of neck and hang it over the edge of a bench above a bucket of water. Was in the Eyre mountains for a mouse plague, 45 in the bucket in the morning, same again the second night!

Diagram?

Snap-E is a great trap takeuchi - peanut butter is pretty good but IMO - Goodnature possum paste is the best rat bait I have used and I have tried a few - but GN have new lures now for rats - one is chocolate flavoured so that may be good
One great aspect of the Snap-E trap is you can hair trigger it - when setting it - carefully set the foot plate lower and lower until it just holds - blow on it and it will trip - no mouse will walk over that
I often get rats and hogs that are clipped by the kill bar and thrown clear - dead in the trap or a metre away - both are fine

Sean - you are doing some great work on everything you touch - it would be great to go for a walk with you one day - it would also be interesting to hear some more about your huntstand app - looks like it might be useful for record keeping - I found a fenn last week that I hung in a tree with a hog about a year ago

86 possums for me in the last 2 months

Googled wine bottle mouse trap but couldnt find any like the one I saw, few similar ones though

Found the good nature site cheers time out. will set the traps a tad more hairy.
hey 223 nut, we used to have a 44 gallon drum of horse feed at home when we were kids. when it was getting empty the rats and mice would jump in and couldn't get out. throw the foxy in there and he'd clean them up in short order. throw the cat in there and it would jump straight back out!! Never did like cats much.

Another hog