Ferret for rat control?

nothing really worked until we got cats I found bengal mixes the best rat hunters of all they are so HYPED up all the time and need to vent energy out

just make sure they are spayed and female it is not easy picking out a rat killer, but places will tell u which one is a really good mouser and you will know

the pampered pet fat nutered male usually isnt, its the hyper females that are in shape

at the horse barn they have couple of torties who go into the ducks and live there in the winter solved their rat issue which was so bad at one point


My friend is opening a zoo up this summer north of here and was having a rat problem and got six barn cats all spayed and given shots from the shelter and they took care of it all. Cat rescues/shelters here will just pick out ones who are really good at it.
 
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Mice /rats, subject comes up often.

Posted to another query.
Hope it helps.:

My understanding is that rats/mice are everywhere.
They will congregate and breed where there is available food, water, and shelter.
Look closely around any fast food restaurant and you will see rat bait stations.

They will eventually come, the idea is to prevent them from establishing a colony.
If you see 1, there are probably fifty.
If you see two or more holes, expect dozens.

Keeping a rat trap/bait station baited 24/7 hopefully keeps the population from establishing near your food source. Once established, they are very difficult to eliminate.

Remember, chickens don't attract rats, food does.

That said, I fabricated black 4 inch circular x 18" long drainage plastic pipe as a bait station.
Placed along the outside of my coop, looks like drainage pipe (not unsightly).
I put a t fitting in the center, capped, for easy viewing once a week.
Inside I maintain commercial rat poison.

My run has food scraps 24/7.
My coop has food access 24/7.
Water access 24/7.

5 years, no sign of rats or mice...

Hope this helps.


 

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