[Pil-pc-oceania] Subject: PERMACULTURE & RODENTS - laurence gafney

[Mike Morris]

len organicpc wrote:

> you can use spring traps but it is hard to get especially rats to take the 
> baits although potato and pumpkin seeds work about the best, you can buy 
> those cage traps again costly to buy and no guarantees it will give you any 
> control, been there done that.

Not entering into the pro- or con-rodent debate here, but, in the 
interests of avoiding poisons (and I won't use them, no matter the 
temptation when it comes to Rats) allow me to point those interested in 
the African Rat Trap -- essentially a bucket in a hole in the ground, 
some water in the bottom, and bait (carrot, peanut butter) on a wire 
across the top of the bucket.  Full details at 
http://mikro2nd.net/blog/planb/how-to/2007/05/27/African-Rat-Trap.html

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