Recent content by duckwater

Get the corn bread mix with the honey added into it. I've found the best success with that one. 1:1 ratio mix:soda. I just just toss some in a tupperware container, add 3-4 tbsp of each into it, pop a lid on, shake it up, then set it out without the lid on. Refill/replace a few days later.

I hate poison traps, and glue traps. Hell I've had bad experiences with snap traps too. I even feel bad about using the baking soda method, which reacts to their stomach acid and since rats cannot burp or fart, they get an unpleasant death although it wont take days. But baking soda is better...

Will it blast through the target and a plywood backing (or even just the ply backing when missing the target) at about 10ft? I'm gonna be re-designing my coop here soon but I'm thinking that I will be beefing up the ply I use for the siding specifically for this reason. The last thing I want to...

Done water buckets, normal traps. The baking soda + cornbread mix actually works really well (paired with it being the safest way to bait) so it's my preferred way of doing it. Having a gun though is just another tool and I don't have to play the wack-a-rat mini game with a club every time I go...

I actually just started looking into those because of your thread on it, it looks like a really reliable and accurate piece. The only weird thing I seen was that it's bolt is on the left hand side.

Poison isn't an option for me. I have dogs, and I foster puppies that combined with having ducks and geese I won't run the risk of them getting into it somehow or getting hold of a rat that's ingested it. Even with the baits that say they're safe around dogs/cats, I still don't trust that...

Rats have taken up near my duck coop, I drowned out their nest (that they setup under the concrete slab of my shed next to the coop) but there are still a good amount in the shed itself. Been baiting with baking soda and corn bread mix with decent success but I would like to have a some sort of...