Rat shooting bait
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LarryLightFoot
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I blitz up veg oil with peanut butter and chocolate spread and some bbq sauce into a sludge they seem to like it plus they have to stop and lap it up rather grab and run .
Liquidised cat food with added oil. They have to lap is up so stop in one place for a shot and it's got a strong smell
David.evans
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Chocolate spread is good as well
StephenToast
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Peanut butter works for me but Larry Lightfoot's recipe sounds like a winner.
With rats at a farm, the rats will know where the food is already, and if you look around there is likely to be several place's (what i call hot spots) so watch out for these's place's, if there is grain around the farm spread some of this "near cover" at these's hot spot area's, ----------any bait you use, must be so they cannot pick it up and run off with it.
Some times putting different bait down the night you intend shooting it at a farm, the rats can be suspicious of it and therefore leave it that night, --------get a waste re-cycling place where all kinds of food are there and this isn't a problem as its normal food to them , peanut butter is good.
Dave (warbucks)
Some times putting different bait down the night you intend shooting it at a farm, the rats can be suspicious of it and therefore leave it that night, --------get a waste re-cycling place where all kinds of food are there and this isn't a problem as its normal food to them , peanut butter is good.
Dave (warbucks)
John Gryphon
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Bacon fat,even humans can smell it from 50 yards away.
Melt then smear it.
Melt then smear it.
the prowler
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On my little rat shoot there's chickens and other poultry. I just use dry cow feed which is ground up pretty finely.
Overlay
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Cheap mixed bird food that contains cracked wheat, mix with used coffee grouts put on the ground in a metre long cross and load your mags up, I’ve had six rats feeding on it in one go
I’ve used this quite a bit and it works very well and cheap as chips
don’t go for bait can be carried off, spoil for next visit
I’ve used this quite a bit and it works very well and cheap as chips
don’t go for bait can be carried off, spoil for next visit
Rats usually don't like being out in the open. I find it works really well to bait the upper surface of the bottom plank on a pallet. Put the pallet against a 'ratty place' and smear bait (I use peanut butter or liquidised cat food) on the top of the plank that sits on the ground at the end facing me. Sit well back so you can see under the pallet and wait. They'll sit licking at the bait quite happily because they feel safe having a roof over their heads. The rest should be obvious 
Scapegoat
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This is a winner. We spoon Aldi Nutella substitute, and cheap smooth peanut butter into a jug and warm it in the microwave. That then gets put into a squirty bottle and shaken up with veg oil to pouring consistency. This is then squirted onto known rat runs and left a day for them to find. As Longstrider says, they’re happiest when they are in familiar territory so somewhere you can plot up and pick ‘em off with the NV.
LarryLightFoot
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Always pick up all the ingredients in Aldi cheap as chips and does the job .
Sharpshooter.123
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Big cooking apple, core it out and fill the hole with peanut butter 
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