Wooden Homemade Box Trap Part 2

How to determine the correct sizing of your homemade Box Trap, as well as how to size the individual parts of the trap.

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Howto & Style

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• Box
• Trap
• Sustainable
• Meat
• Simple
• Living

[nigglypuff983]

how much would you sell me that black chicken

[SustenanceNCovering]

@nigglypuff983 She got eaten by a hawk. Sorry about that. However I do have a hawk trap now.

[TenshiB]

Is it a bad idea to stain and brush some coats of polyurethane on the outside(s) of these box traps? Just to keep 'em a little tougher against the weather? It looks like yours are treated wood, but I'd still wanna brush a few coats of poly on there to keep me peace of mind.... IF it wouldn't hurt any percentage of success of the trap itself.

[SustenanceNCovering]

@TenshiB I don't know. I do know that animals use their noses the way that we use our eyes. The smell of smoke doesn't do anything to them. I was told that they wouldn't go in a trap if they could smell the blood of the animal that you last killed in the trap. I know that is a lie because I have set traps with nothing in them but the left over blood of the last animal and still caught something without any bait. Any predator smell (including man) will keep them away.

[FJvoodoo]

@SustenanceNCovering You mentioned Predator smell, when we build the trap our sent is all over the thing. Should it be washed prior to use or just bait it with really smelly bait like sardines and fish emulsion? You would think that the aroma of the fish would lure them in, does that make sense?

[SustenanceNCovering]

@FJvoodoo When I get the urge to trap anything I just set the trap out for about a week before I bait it. Every animal is different. Bobcats and Coyotes are fairly dificult to get into a trap. Raccoons will climb into the same trap night after night. Anything that is fish based will draw in possums and raccoons. They can not resist it. One word of warning. DO NOT pee anywhere around where you have traps. You are a predator, and predator pee is an obvious warning to wild animals

[FJvoodoo]

@SustenanceNCovering It's been outside for two days and no bites yet, yeah it makes sense if you pee, i tried it once to mark the area to keep them out of the garden but only did it once. It worked for about three days until i watered and kind of washed it down into the soil. Strange thing is the raccoon digs holes and puts pine cones in them and covers them up. I don't even have pine trees.. thanks for the info dude... Party on!!!

[nigglypuff983]

@SustenanceNCovering oh sad but wtvr

[SustenanceNCovering]

@tjuranek You Are Welcome

[tjuranek]

you are great at explaining thanks so much for sharing the knowledge!