I’ve recently tried adding some beef dripping - no good. Added rolled oats - a bit more interest.
Last week added some chocolate sprinkles to Pam’s smooth peanut butter - 7 rats caught in 23 traps!! Seemed to work really well so will stick with that for a while until they loose interest.
Several baits cleaned (T-Rex traps) out but slug/snail trails around traps but most spotlessly clean and empty and still set!
That sounds like chocolate sprinkles and smooth PB well worth a try! Thanks Max
Usually, the mouse clears the bait out.
I put some mouse traps in the tunnel box as well.
Catch a lot of mice.
By removing the mice, the bait stays there longer for the rat to come across it.
How long have you tried drippings?
I recommend trying my experiment with marbles, which has been extremely effective.
Good luck.
Rats also love to scavenge mice, so that will keep them coming back for more.
Guys and gals,
With all of this stuff, what we need to do is more like a trial. So, for instance if you have 20 traps, bait every second one with the new lure you want to try and the others with what you’ve been using for a while.
Then see what the difference is.
Because if you change all 20 to to a new lure and catch a bunch of rats, you don’t know if you would have caught them anyway, using your original lure. Perhaps there were just more around that week? Perhaps a litter or 2 dispersed and you caught them?
Do others think this is the way to go?
I absolutely think that that’s the way to go.