Thread: Help with a wise ole rat

Pea sized blobs of peanut butter mixed with plaster of Paris will do the trick

Update on the rats, seems things have gone all quiet since poison was laid. Rats were happy to feed off the poison wherever it was placed but wouldn't touch the stuff which was placed on the traps. Massive thanks to @Kiwi-Hunter for sending that up for me. Just waiting on the smell now to find where they are rotting.

For rats into the chook and calf feed we would mix some fine stuff up with plaster of Paris, about 2:1 ratio I think, the 1 being the plaster. Takes a hard cast of their lower intestine.

Cake of soap on the lawn and the 250 out the window treatment.


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Originally Posted by berg243

for ones that are running around shed and wont take bait 2 bits of 8x1 bored to take a 50mm plastic pipe so it can be put against the wall with no gap on wall side makes them run through it , pipe wants to be about 600mm long with hole drilled in the top side halfway along just big enough for a 80lb mono or braid line to fit through.leave against wall with some flour at each end on the ground to see when they start running through pipe.once they using it as a path set mono as a running loop inside pipe out through hole up over a peg down to a balanced weight looping the line as it comes out of the pipe before it goes over peg to trip weight to fall ending ratus free run.

Sounds interesting - but i found it hard to follow your explanation.

Any chance of a photo?

How big is your place? the duck shooters i know bait some cheap grain and then they spotlight them

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Pea sized blobs of peanut butter mixed with plaster of Paris will do the trick

That was the method my Grandmother used - she grew up in the depression and didn't mess around with rodents