woodchuck bait

tractormiallis · Jul 22, 2013

I have woodchucks living under a wood pile and old building that I want to live trap and dispose of. I really am not sure of what bait to use in the live trap. What do you guys use to catch them?

RMinVa · Jul 22, 2013

Apples, cantaloupe or cantaloupe rines.

JD John · Jul 22, 2013

In the spring on here somebody said bubble gum works. They eat it and plugs them up! John

tomNE · Jul 22, 2013

I've always heard that juicy fruit gum is the best.

rabbit-1 · Jul 22, 2013

A few pieces of muskmellon placed on the ground under a live trap. Worked real good for me recently - much to the'chuck's chagrin.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2013

i have used a tomato cut in half or brocollii. Both worked very well

El Toro · Jul 22, 2013

I just caught one and I used a few bean leaves. They about ruined my green beans. Caught a rabbit too. Also my wife let one out. I told her that now I was going to buy a pellet gun. The ground is too hard to bury them. Too many houses around now. Hal

MF#1 · Jul 22, 2013

Caught one last week using a slice of sqaush, took less than 3 hours.

old · Jul 22, 2013

Cantaloupe works well as does any melon wit h a strong smell

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2013

almost any dead ripe melon will work, 'cept watermelon. Don't ask me why...

Prawn Farmer · Jul 22, 2013

I use a product called Tomcat in my barns. Its a weather resistant, extruded wax-like chunk bait. I put the bait in/near burrow entrances, the rodents eat it and they're history. Since they die in their burrows there isn't any burying or worrying about some other critter getting the carcass.

parisspringstom · Jul 22, 2013

I threw some marshmellos in the trap and caught one

Royse · Jul 22, 2013

They will eat musk melon rind for days around here. Get them used
to eating it, then put it under a trap and they'll move the trap.
Pin the trap down and they will just eat something else. Grrr.
They were digging under my garage floor, so I tried smoking them
out with an old smoking tractor exhaust. Worked for a while, but
they came back.
What I ended up doing was mixing up some really wet cement and
filling the hole from both ends.
If they were in the hole, they didn't make it out.
If not, they didn't come back.

Dr. Walt · Jul 23, 2013

Say this 10 times real fast:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Seriously though, we don't have any woodchucks here in southern Nevada (that I know of), but this works on all other types of rodents and even a Badger, so it may work on a woodchuck.

Thoroughly mix 2 heaping Tablespoons full of Plaster of Paris, with 1 heaping Tablespoon full of Confectioners Powdered Sugar, add this mix to 2 cups of Rolled Oats & thoroughly mix. Place this mix where the critters will find it, but someplace where your Chickens, Cats, Dogs, & other animals that you want to keep can't get into it. The rodents are attracted by the grain, love the taste of the Sugar, and DON'T TASTE the Plaster of Paris which sets up in their stomach's & upper intestines. They can't pass it out & they can't cough it up - works every time.

I've gotten rid of mice, rats, squirrels, rabbits, skunks, & the Badger.

Doc

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