Preditor eating my birds.

[hannigf]

Something is eating my birds. It primarily takes the head off and eats on.  He ate a full 3 week old bird who's nest was on the ground. When I left a posioned carcase it would not touch it. I left a rat trap with food in it, but it does not touch it. It seems to only go for the live bird. Most of the birds are sensible enough to get off the ground and seem OK but I can only assume that the ones on the ground are scared or transfixed at night and won't get off the ground. Would a weasel or mink eat everything or at least kill everything on one visit? I still have not ruled out a large rat but he must be very smart. The pooh left behind looks like a large rat dropping. What might it be and how might I get it or defend the loft.

 

         Francy.

[pjc]

rats

[pearse1888]

probably a mink

[Guest stb-]

Something is eating my birds. It primarily takes the head off and eats on.  He ate a full 3 week old bird who's nest was on the ground. When I left a posioned carcase it would not touch it. I left a rat trap with food in it, but it does not touch it. It seems to only go for the live bird. Most of the birds are sensible enough to get off the ground and seem OK but I can only assume that the ones on the ground are scared or transfixed at night and won't get off the ground. Would a weasel or mink eat everything or at least kill everything on one visit? I still have not ruled out a large rat but he must be very smart. The pooh left behind looks like a large rat dropping. What might it be and how might I get it or defend the loft.

 

         Francy.

well if it looks like a rat dropping thats what it wil be, weasels are different entierly

 

 

[pjc]

probably a mink

 

A mink would kill the lot!

[Guest grizzler]

;)its a rat, they always seem to eat the head first.set some traps

[Guest bigda]

has it pulled the carcase to any one side of your loft , as to see what direction  it is heading with it  to then see where it is getting in  mate.

[fred x]

yes M8 sad to say its a rat,  nasty things  Lets hope you got is soon

[OLDYELLOW]

Keep the birds from the floor and get some peanut butter and mix antifreeze into it and keep it away from birds  

[Guest]

Anti freeze good idea anything thin it's blood try find the hole it's coming in fill it with broken glass if it's desperate get in it will cut it's self up in process seen this on farm I worked on or raw meat wrap it in blue powder rat poision

[Guest madpup]

Something is eating my birds. It primarily takes the head off and eats on.  He ate a full 3 week old bird who's nest was on the ground. When I left a posioned carcase it would not touch it. I left a rat trap with food in it, but it does not touch it. It seems to only go for the live bird. Most of the birds are sensible enough to get off the ground and seem OK but I can only assume that the ones on the ground are scared or transfixed at night and won't get off the ground. Would a weasel or mink eat everything or at least kill everything on one visit? I still have not ruled out a large rat but he must be very smart. The pooh left behind looks like a large rat dropping. What might it be and how might I get it or defend the loft.

 

         Francy.

 

First thing I would do is find out where its getting in and put a stop to that first, then put a bird in a larrson trap and catch it.  

 

 

[Jeams]

I tell you my method.Play the tape of cat cry and  mice's painfully cry,you can try it.

[Guest frank dooman]

i had that in greenock it killed every single y/bird 18 in total turned out to be a weasel then the rats were pulling them away it even killed 4 hens that refused to get up off the nest thats why your trap isnt working nightmare

[gulkie]

set a trap with a bit of marsbar they love it [rats] got

one last week, there very clever . took me nearly a

month to get this one.

[Guest bakes]

put a pick up of the droppings i tell tya if its rat weasel mink shot and trapped thousands in my time sounds to me you got a rat knocking around mate

 

all the best.

[holmsidelofts]

Hi there.

I had a problem with a rat getting into my house, ended up in the walls, was a right pain to get rid of, had to call council out to deal with it in the end. they used believe it or not a chocolate white mouse in the trap, first night down caught him. after talking with the guy that came out i was told it was there preferred bait to catch them with. I was also told that a mouse can get in a hole the size of a pencil and a rat can get in a hole the size of a 50p.

Rats always go for the corn in the crop first thats why they take the heads off but they will come back for the carcass.

 

Jas

[Guest bakes]

any of the dropping like this let me no

 

 

all the best

[maxwell]

That is a Rat for sure.

[Guest Owen]

The best trap is a fen trap but make sure you have it covered properly. Baits are peanut butter, mars bar and chocolate. I have bait boxes waiting all the time. I check them roughly every week. Where rats are concerned, if you have had them once, they will always keep coming back. According to a Council Rat Man, they can follow a trail for up to two years. As they breed and the population increases some will be pushed out and have to leave the area. Those that are pushed out, then follow the trail left by previous rats and they will end up at your house. So you will never ever be completely free of rats after that. The best we can do is to manage the problem by being ready for them when they come.

[Guest strapper]

the reason your not catching any in the trap is because they can smell, rats have a great sense of smell and will aviod any new structures in his usual walkways.

as already stated the rats go for the crop because they know corn is stored there.

rats have a superior way of surviving most things.

they have to gnaw at things because their teeth are continually growing.

all the best in finding a solution to them.

[cowman]

if there is no holes in your loft but have dowels get them wired up as i had this last year since i wired up all the doweled fronts and air holes no more problems also check behind nest boxes etc too .

[Guest bakes]

what you wont to do is find the run the way the rat is coming in set the trap along the run if you wont a fenn trap i send you one down for nowt has controlled loads of rats,weasel,stoats with these traps

 

 

all the best

[wings]

set a trap with a bit of marsbar they love it [rats] got

one last week, there very clever . took me nearly a

month to get this one.

 

If it has taken you that long to catch i would say you have lot more by now.

[Guest stb-]

what you wont to do is find the run the way the rat is coming in set the trap along the run if you wont a fenn trap i send you one down for nowt has controlled loads of rats,weasel,stoats with these traps

 

 

all the best

what were you trying to trap in that picture Bakes ,,   a snake ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

 

[pjc]

what were you trying to trap in that picture Bakes ,,   a snake ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

 

more like a fly trap!  ;D ;D ;D