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Larsen Trap and Peanut Butter

  • 06-02-2012 10:06am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Result!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,868 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭stoeger


    Nice one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭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 It was almost out of date but a big spoon of it in the call bird compartment is usually enough to bring them in.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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭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 It was almost out of date but a big spoon of it in the call bird compartment is usually enough to bring them in.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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 .223forme


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,454 ✭✭✭Invincible


    .223forme wrote: »
    that cage looks serius!! wher did you buy it??

    Google Limerick poultry or Atkinson brothers traps


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 .223forme


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 .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!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,454 ✭✭✭Invincible


    .223forme wrote: »
    ri tanks and what sort of price are you talking about??

    They have the prices on the sites.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭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


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