o.k so i have been trapping a while and one of the dairies that i trap on has tried to get a couple of our local citified adc's out to take care of his rat problem. hte questions i have are 1. how do you charge on such a large scale job. 2. has anyone used muskrat colony traps with any success. 3. has anybody used 110 bodygrips with any success. does anybody have any helpfull tips or suggestions on how to approach this. thanks davem

Plenty of helpful info here:

http://icwdm.org/handbook/rodents/NorwayRats.asp

thank you Ron, i just made 4 colony traps and am going try them tomorrow.

110's are to big........

newer captured any in colony traps

go buy 100 victor with the big yellow pan and 50 cage traps

I was wondering if the 110's would be too big. I am looking at investing in some cages also. I haven't had any getting trap shy from the cages that i have out, is this because they are not killing the rats or has there just not been enough time yet.

The first thing I caught when the Conibear first came out was Norway rats, but these were those big guys that came right out of the corncrib. I have caught a lot in squirrel cages, both styles of Victor snap-traps, and we kind of like the T-Rexes in bait stations. I even caught one in a 32 inch Wickenkamp set for raccoons.

The secret is getting them used to whatever you are using. My grandsons used to have pet rats. I wonder of they would have worked as decoys?

caught my first double in one of the colony traps. otherwise they are working as live traps, one at a time.