Fursty Ferret
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Mice are easy to trap with break back style traps. Set them in the right place and you dont even need to bait them as they just run over them
Mouse and rat traps
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Fursty Ferret
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That’s a Mk4 fenn trap no? That’s what I have been using for the rats but as Rhodesianjess described, the mice often just get launched clear of the trap or the metal “goalposts”, as I call them, close over the top of the mouse as they are smaller than rats.
I have a series of tuned little nippers set all the time. You need to file and then sand down the setting pin and set very lightly. Bait wise hard chocolate heat up bait spike and push bit of chocolate on it. Alterntively half a brazil nut. Needs to be something they have to naw at.
For rats Fenn trap in tunnel box. I use 3 " square down pipe to guide rat over centre of trap.
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For rats Fenn trap in tunnel box. I use 3 " square down pipe to guide rat over centre of trap.
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shakey jake
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i use small snapy mouse traps in a rat box, one facing each entrance, quite common to catch two a night
shakey jake
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fenns are a body grip trap, break backs are the tom and jerry style, single jaw moving from one side to the other generally. big advantage of break backs is they dont need to be checked every day fens and docs do
Idlemusket
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A24 Mouse & Rat Trap from Goodnature Traps UK
I thought these were expensive when they first came out and they are £50 more now ... I would sooner buy a 9mm garden gun and enjoy the sport
Has anyone used the Co2 one?
I thought these were expensive when they first came out and they are £50 more now ... I would sooner buy a 9mm garden gun and enjoy the sport
Has anyone used the Co2 one?
I always check traps regularly so no problems there.
I have some small Tom and Jerry traps somewhere. Just need to find them
Put a six inch square 18 inch long box over the Mk 4 fen, mice don't get thrown clear.
Use a screwdriver under the pressure plate so you can bend the pressure plate down so the trigger point is 2=3 mm below the riser that prevents stones & soil from getting under the plate, this way it is so easy to set with a bit of wood baton, push the plate down until the riser stops you pushing down any further.
Never file the trigger, just use a screwdriver to pry up the little shelf on the pressure plate to make it more sensitive ( a little butter on the trigger helps).
You can bait it with Nuttella, peanut butter, or super glue some maze on the plate Fish oil from a tin of fish.
Always place the mk 4 sideways on, so it is like a scissor trap, a large critter gets crushed by the head & back end, humane & instant.
You can use 2 planks either end with a hole cut in the bottom to suit size of critter you intend to catch, 2.5 - 3inches should deter hedgehogs.
Use a screwdriver under the pressure plate so you can bend the pressure plate down so the trigger point is 2=3 mm below the riser that prevents stones & soil from getting under the plate, this way it is so easy to set with a bit of wood baton, push the plate down until the riser stops you pushing down any further.
Never file the trigger, just use a screwdriver to pry up the little shelf on the pressure plate to make it more sensitive ( a little butter on the trigger helps).
You can bait it with Nuttella, peanut butter, or super glue some maze on the plate Fish oil from a tin of fish.
Always place the mk 4 sideways on, so it is like a scissor trap, a large critter gets crushed by the head & back end, humane & instant.
You can use 2 planks either end with a hole cut in the bottom to suit size of critter you intend to catch, 2.5 - 3inches should deter hedgehogs.
Put a six inch square 18 inch long box over the Mk 4 fen, mice don't get thrown clear.
Use a screwdriver under the pressure plate so you can bend the pressure plate down so the trigger point is 2=3 mm below the riser that prevents stones & soil from getting under the plate, this way it is so easy to set with a bit of wood baton, push the plate down until the riser stops you pushing down any further.
Never file the trigger, just use a screwdriver to pry up the little shelf on the pressure plate to make it more sensitive ( a little butter on the trigger helps).
You can bait it with Nuttella, peanut butter, or super glue some maze on the plate Fish oil from a tin of fish.
Always place the mk 4 sideways on, so it is like a scissor trap, a large critter gets crushed by the head & back end, humane & instant.
You can use 2 planks either end with a hole cut in the bottom to suit size of critter you intend to catch, 2.5 - 3inches should deter hedgehogs.
Use a screwdriver under the pressure plate so you can bend the pressure plate down so the trigger point is 2=3 mm below the riser that prevents stones & soil from getting under the plate, this way it is so easy to set with a bit of wood baton, push the plate down until the riser stops you pushing down any further.
Never file the trigger, just use a screwdriver to pry up the little shelf on the pressure plate to make it more sensitive ( a little butter on the trigger helps).
You can bait it with Nuttella, peanut butter, or super glue some maze on the plate Fish oil from a tin of fish.
Always place the mk 4 sideways on, so it is like a scissor trap, a large critter gets crushed by the head & back end, humane & instant.
You can use 2 planks either end with a hole cut in the bottom to suit size of critter you intend to catch, 2.5 - 3inches should deter hedgehogs.
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Those are a good bit of kit but the OP already complained that DOC traps are too dear...
Ah but you set this once and it doesn't need to be checked daily like a doc or a fenn
Whatever traps you use make sure to tether your mouse traps down with a piece of old bicycle brake cable or similar (the way a Fenn has a chain on it to stop it being dragged away) Otherwise I can guarantee that with both mice and rats present what will happen is that you'll catch a mouse in a trap and rat will make off with it, trap and all.
Brittany boy
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I've lost rat traps that were under boxes to foxes, just picked up the rat and trap and wandered off to consume. Pain.
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