Larsen Trap and Peanut Butter

berettaman

I hope this is the right place and that it will be of use to some members. I was using a ground entry four sided larsen trap to catch rats using peanut butter as bait. It was effective around my sisters poultry run. Anyway in the last two days I caught two grey crows in it. It never occured to me to use peanut butter to attract greycrows but there you go. Anything to get the population down a bit.:D

kildare.17hmr

Result!

Birdnuts

Good stuff - now is probably the best time of year for getting hoodies this way:cool:

stoeger

Nice one

yessam

berettaman wrote: »

I hope this is the right place and that it will be of use to some members. I was using a ground entry four sided larsen trap to catch rats using peanut butter as bait. It was effective around my sisters poultry run. Anyway in the last two days I caught two grey crows in it. It never occured to me to use peanut butter to attract greycrows but there you go. Anything to get the population down a bit.:D

is it the scent of peanut butter that attracted them

berettaman

The peanut butter was put in to attract the rats. It was almost out of date but a big spoon of it in the call bird compartment is usually enough to bring them in. I suppose there would be a strong scent off it. Saw them(Rats and Greycrows come to think of it) raid bird feeders for nuts so why not peanut butter? The score is 2 rats and two grey crows from that spot next to the poultry run, in about 5 days.

yessam

berettaman wrote: »

The peanut butter was put in to attract the rats. It was almost out of date but a big spoon of it in the call bird compartment is usually enough to bring them in. I suppose there would be a strong scent off it. Saw them(Rats and Greycrows come to think of it) raid bird feeders for nuts so why not peanut butter? The score is 2 rats and two grey crows from that spot next to the poultry run, in about 5 days.

i will try this

.223forme

that cage looks serius!! wher did you buy it??

Invincible

.223forme wrote: »

that cage looks serius!! wher did you buy it??

Google Limerick poultry or Atkinson brothers traps

.223forme

ri tanks and what sort of price are you talking about??

.223forme

ive found the greycrows are just too powerful in your regular rectangular larsen trap and just continuously knock the perches,,this would do nicely by the looks of it!!

charlie10

bought mine on maceonltd.com 3 years ago 150 and i have caught everything in it from robins to wrens from greys to rats brilliant yoke and its galvanised so wont rust

Invincible

.223forme wrote: »

ri tanks and what sort of price are you talking about??

They have the prices on the sites.

lb1981

Peanut butter is lethal in squirrel traps ,it is all we use, rip of a bag of rubbish and put it beside the trap with some bits of scraps of food in the trap ,works well this time of year,when it is laying season for pheasants just use eggs in your trap ,its pure dynamite ,they cant help themselves