₦airaland Forum

jubrilcastle:
The very best is roasted palm kernel either fresh or processed one but the main thing is the palm kernel should still have the fruit inside. Also roasted corn fresh or dried no problem.

Rosted corn and yam is still the best option as they don't get easily removed by the animal from the bait iron and the aroma attracts animals from far distance

Olayinka8793:
Thanks for taking out time to enlighten me. May God increase you in wisdom.

I just moved to my new site and it is a bushy area that is not yet developed, everywhere is bush and farms and few houses.

I would like to be setting traps at my backyard and side fences to try and catch any types of bush rats whether okene, oya, emo or squirrel for my consumption.

How do you suggest I set up the trap to maximize catching of preys sir? I intend to buy the type of metal cage trap used by the poster of this topic. The location of my site is Ado odo Ota area of Ogun state.

Congratulations to you for the house. It will not be demolish or catch fire.

The two types of trap suitable for this environment is cage and wire. This will help to prevent domestic animals such as hen, goat, dogs etc to get caught.

You can get a cage trap, use roasted corn 🌽, yam or cassava to bait it. The aroma of roasted corn /yam will help draw the attention of the animal on time without the cage being their for days without getting any visit from the intending animal.

You can also do the local wire trap or buy from anyone around that does it.

The wire trap is made from a tiny strand of clutch cable tied to a wood or stick placed on a fence or tied to a branch of a tree you know animals climbed. This type of trap is suitable for okete, okere (sqauirel) & snake 🐍. This type of trap can be baited by pawpaw as it easily attracts okete and okere.

You will put the bait at the end of the wood /stick, so the animal will have to pass through the wire in circular form to get to the bait.

The animal must be bigger than the size of the wire, but will be struggling to pass through it and loss balance in the process, then it gets hanged.

But you have to exercise alot of caution if you found a snake get trapped in a wire trap coz they are very aggressive during that dieing time.

bluefilm:
Story for the gods.

Dey play

mrksquare:
Usually they set it on fire while it is in the cage.

You can also shake the cage vigorously till the rat loss consciousness, bring it out nack am for head.

mrksquare:
Usually they set it on fire while it is in the cage.

That's cruel, I won't subscribe to that method.

Olayinka8793:
care to educate me please?

Why not.

The class of rats found on the farm or remote bush are quite different from rodents we have in town and some houses.

Emo which share similarities with grass cutter is very edible and can be found in small bushes in town, like developing area, estate with small green area. This particular rat is brownish in color and have a short mouth, some of them don't have have a very long tail as they are in the habit of eating their own tail as another specie called olose found in remote bush also eat their own tail to the shortest length.

Rago is also an edible specie of rat found in remote bust, the rat has a type of marking of white and black stripe on his back just like antelope (this one is mostly cut by trap during the day, hot afternoon unlike the others that move about at night)

Their is eda, grayish in color wit a white belly

Their is elegodo, their habitat is rotten banana stump, they mostly nest inside a cut banana plant and are easy to kill without trap

Shrew, this one is the monster of the bush, shrew is notorious for eating a trapped rat leaving only the head in the trap. The best revenge is to trap the shrew with the head left behind .

Their is also eleri, this one doesn't really add value coz of its size, people don't eat it coz their is a myth this specie of rat is cursed with dwarfism. So they end up at the herb sellers shop.

Then you have okere (squairel), thou there are two types of okere. They are identify by the markings on their body. But noboby cares about that, okere is a very tasty meat.

There are still more.

bobbiiee:
Some put the trapped animal & the trap in water so as to partially drown it.

Hold it by the tail through the cage, open the door and drag it out, smash it on the floor like twice.

You can later cut the neck to release the blood or do that after smoking it.

Henry22:
Op this one that has albino nose, don't eat what you don't understand o

It might have got wounded while sticking it nose through the iron cage trying to find an escape route.

Pootle:
kindly release that poor thing back to the wild

So that it can continue to reck havoc on farmer's cassava and maize 🌽 plant. Walnut and kolanut is not left off their menu, this okete no dey take eye see palm kernel. They can load more than 10 seeds at once inside that their mouth. There is an elastic sack inside that their mouth which allows them to pack many item at once.

bluefilm:
Big or not, a Rat is still a Rat

There are classes of rats, okete is not a regular rat. Even small rats like emo, olose and the rest are edible. Rat is different from rodents.

Farm shrew is very edible and a good anti snake bite.

adecz:
This dirty animal usually lives in sewage
soakaways, and is a carrier of leprosy..😷🤕🤒


Be very careful handling it make una nor
come contact life incurable changing disease❗️❗️

Oga forget that thing, no leprossy whatsoever. This particular bush rat (okete) start living in fence block hole and septic tank hole when human being invaded their natural habitat which is remote bush / farm.

I remember catching male & female live inside an uncompleted house block hole not far from a sugar cane farm in Ibadan.

I kept them for some month (rearing them) before doing justice to them. They were use to make a Sumptuous Egusi soup on a wkend for the family.

May God rest the soul of numerous okete, okere even rats have devoured back then at the villa.

E no go soft apc and their oloribu supporters

I am happy for the family.

Very anyhow and nonsensical country, carrying crude about and looking for buyer instead of developing their own refinery and refine locally so the citizens can buy at affordable rate.

BigDawsNet:
Can they pound it like pounded yam

Nope

This is esuru, very soft and socculent specie of yam. I have in planted in my compound, infact I can't wait to harvest it next year

It is best enjoyed with palm oil with a sprinkle of salt.

Mexyz:

At least dem dey contribute well for one area

look at the merger amount the kadashians are generating, na only during election their figure dey swell like Ijebu garri.

erico2k2:
What can you produce?

even thou we have limited finish goods for onward export to earn forex, what about the huge raw materials we have here, natural resources included.

but all those greedy politicians has make it look like it is must for Nigerians to face untold hardship.

Kukutente23:
Wonderful!!
Agbado economists now believe importation is evil.
This guys are fuçking clueless Zombies.
Just look at them up there condemning importation as if it's not a part of trade.
One wonders which schools these clowns attended.
Even secondary school economics should cure this cluelessness

this brings back the memory of this topic in economics "Trade", which is divided into 2 category (home trade & foreign trade)
home trade- trade within one's country.
foreign trade -trade between 2 or more countries.

I kept wondering why this administration is making international trade(buying from other countries) looks like abomination

is commerce and economics a joke to apc ni

Things dey really occur for inside lasgidi........the useless pedophile should be locked up in kiriiri and the key thrown into the lagoon.

Where is the refinery situated?

illicit:
I like the ones that includes flaunting boobs

You are indeed an illicit

They should kuku kill us instead of imposing a higher tax......the only thing I enjoy as a citizen of this country is that I fit sh*t for bush without getting arrested.

Mumu legislator, enforcing yeye law on the masses. You won't see them putting effort to deliberate and pass a bill that will eradicate poverty, tackle corruption and social vices. They should push for the bill that will help this nation and make it habitable.


Nonses & NASS

Shimran:
1.8billion of them. You and your West/Israel have to put more and more effort!

Sit back, watch as this unfolds.

Corroro:
every device heats up when you over use it.

Well, my Samsung doesn't heat up uneccesarily.

This is serious, is it the same CAC Oke igan at imuagun area of Akure?