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Post by Lonny Mattison on Feb 17, 2012 8:10:09 GMT -5
Has anyone caught more male rats this year than females? Several people have mentioned this and was wondering.
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Post by johnrockwood on Feb 17, 2012 8:15:16 GMT -5
Always.............this year just appears to be an even higher percentage of males than normal.
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Post by austinp on Feb 17, 2012 8:48:41 GMT -5
fwiw, my catch was about 50/50 perfectly down the middle. That includes covering parts of four counties in various habitat.
only reason I know is from saving female carcasses for the biology study. only time my catch ran heavy to males specifically was setting toilets with musk-based lure, that was almost 90% males then
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Post by Lonny Mattison on Feb 17, 2012 8:59:45 GMT -5
John...any reason or is that nature?
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Post by herm on Feb 17, 2012 9:54:05 GMT -5
It always has seemed to me that the males are the first to be cought.If I was trapping a farm pond away from every other source of water,I always pulled the traps when a higher percentage of females started being trapped.
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Post by nyrat on Feb 17, 2012 13:58:13 GMT -5
my rats run about 80% males and 20% females most of my 3xxl males
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Post by mikeb on Feb 17, 2012 20:52:13 GMT -5
Ours was just the opposite-75% females to male ratio-but scott smith the dec biologist said that was a good thing!!
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Post by herm on Feb 18, 2012 8:11:23 GMT -5
The longer you leave your traps set in a certain area the more the ratio will balance out.If you leave sets out for a short time and pull I think in most places the catch ratio will be mostly males.At least this is what I have found to be the case in most areas I have trapped.
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Post by mikeb on Feb 18, 2012 15:23:01 GMT -5
herm that is usually the case-most of our trapping was 1 day due to work -so i thought it was odd mainly female catches??
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