[Sylvia]

Your local agricultural supplier will have them. It's the devil's own job though to get anything in them. Dead chicks is a good bait.

[robert waddell]

if you have cage traps you may catch one then the rest know what it is and you will never catch another if the bait in them is nice and tasty to rats they send in the young ones to get the food       if it is the enclosed green traps they have there own poisonous bait that you lace them with

[chrismahon]

Hi Smudger. As Sylvia says your local agricultural merchant will have them, about £30. I leave apple in the end or drop chicken feed in from the top. Just be patient, they will go in eventually. Alternatively bury a Fenn MK4 in the rat run and cover it over with soil and the a cover over the whole lot so the rat runs down a tunnel. Nasty traps though. Break your finger easily! The little rats and mice go in and escape through the holes -the big ones then think it's safe. Same with the Fenn -little rat is too light to set it off so they establish a run over it and the big ones follow -Bang!!!

I'm suprised rat catching isn't more popular as a recreational activity. A real challenge and exciting when you go down to check the traps in the morning. Had 7 in one trap once! Had 12 in the dustbin waiting for collection once as well.

[FiB]

Hi Smudger. As Sylvia says your local agricultural merchant will have them, about £30. I leave apple in the end or drop chicken feed in from the top. Just be patient, they will go in eventually. Alternatively bury a Fenn MK4 in the rat run and cover it over with soil and the a cover over the whole lot so the rat runs down a tunnel. Nasty traps though. Break your finger easily! The little rats and mice go in and escape through the holes -the big ones then think it's safe. Same with the Fenn -little rat is too light to set it off so they establish a run over it and the big ones follow -Bang!!!

I'm suprised rat catching isn't more popular as a recreational activity. A real challenge and exciting when you go down to check the traps in the morning. Had 7 in one trap once! Had 12 in the dustbin waiting for collection once as well.

Lol - I like the idea of it as a recreational activity - I am sitting on a goldmine here, USP for holidays??!!  After a peaceful couple of months heard some thuding in the loft again last night so assuming they are back.  Have to get the rat man in again. Funnily enough he said we didnt have any evidence of them around our chicken area.

[robert waddell]

yes nothing more satisfying than a good rat hunt  you verses them and you winning        some times

[feldar]

Much more fun blasting them with a gun. very satisfying!

[TheCaptain]

Much more fun blasting them with a gun. very satisfying!

Absolutely! I usually bait them for a while out in the open under the lights after dusk. A few nights and they get used to it, then it's just a matter of waiting. As you can tell from my nickname, I like to shoot stuff.

[smudger]

Not sure I'm going to let hubbie read these last few posts. I keep turning corners and find him taking pot shots. Its like a scene from dad's army.  If we catch some in the cage trap, them maybe he might have a fighting chance to hit one

[harry]

do muscovys really kill rats...if so i will get one,,, does it have to be a drake....also no good stopping rats eating your feed as if they cant get that they eat the eggs.

[chrismahon]

Great cover for a Fenn MK4 snap rat trap is roof ridge tiles. Makes a very natural tunnel. Have one put out on on a rat run i spotted this morning and see if I get the rat that is living under a neighbours shed. Don't want to mention it to them as they will get pest control out and put poison down.

[colliewoman]

do muscovys really kill rats...if so i will get one,,, does it have to be a drake....also no good stopping rats eating your feed as if they cant get that they eat the eggs.

All I can say is my muscovy drake does! If he would do the same if his ladies weren't here I don't know
No one round here believes me, so I challenge them to find a rat. You could leave a sandwich outside the duck house all night here and it would still be there in the morning
I do have to let him roam everywhere though. I don't mind as he makes me laugh wagging his tail!

[Crofterloon]

I like the Fenn Trap mk4 but you have to becarefull chickens or pets dont get trapped.
To stop this I ofter put them against a wall with a board against the wall to keep out
bigger animals. However wild birds are at risk. The best way way is to put the fenn trap
in a box contstructed out of wood there will be pictures of this on the tinternet somewhere.

Crofterloon

[robert waddell]

is a fen trap legal     as i goggled the name and there is a picture of a fox with no back paws

[Crofterloon]

Got to be honest I do not know the rules did change a few years ago.

[lill]

Fenn trap is a nasty piece of kit, just you imagine yourself caught in one of these traps with you legs mangles crofterloon, you would not be saying then that you liked them  . This is cruelty in the worst degree. I wish to make it clear to all reading this post that I am a detester of rats, mink, rabbits, foxes magpies, crows etc but this trap is not nice.