Missing Baits - Help!

Predator Control strategy
#21

Hi Willowflat, thanks for more ideas and yes a break will be good and as you say more tinkering needed and I have lots of new things to try.

I find the Trapinator bite bar pretty easy to drill, I will attached pics using a broken trap waiting to be repaired. The bite bar has holes in already, I enlarge one with a 3.5mm drill bit, then insert an 8gx25mm (20mm better) s/s screw. Make sure they have the thread all the way to the top of the screw, technically a machine screw I think. Then attach bait. I find it doesn’t interfere if you want to use a soft bait like possum dough. Cheers
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#22

Thanks for the pics. I’ll give that a go.

Have rodents eaten your dried apricots? I thought they’d be a hit, but they’ve been ignored.

I’m hoping to trap a cat in a Trapinator, so the screw should be great for attaching bait. I trap some large brown rats, so I might even trap one of them. Hell, I trapped one in a Timms 3 weeks ago!

#23

If you use cinnamon, rodents might leave your bait alone completely. A coating on the PB might reduce the rate at which the mice eat it. It seems to slow down the rate of mold-growth when I use it, too.

#24

I haven’t used apricots yet for the possums, I put screws in quite a few to fix meat in for cat trapping, a lot of possums caught get predated by cats so I thought it was a good idea. However I didn’t trap anything in them despite catching cats in other traps. Cheers

#25

In my trapping with Doubtless Conservation Trust I made some hollow eggs which I could store the baits inside to protect them from mice. Mice were taking our baits within a couple of days, but the baits now last the full month. You can now get them from www.traptools.co.nz We call them LureGard and all our 700 odd traps have them now.

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