Put my fledgling silkie bantams out with rest of my hens and they accepted them pretty well. However, it appears our habit of throwing out fruit and veges to chickens has attracted rats. Worse yet, it appears that one or more of them have developed a taste for young fledgling silkies! Rats have killed all three of my babies now and I need help with ideas of how to get rid of these villians. I dug up and disposed of 6 nest full of baby rats, have managed to kill 3 adults for sure. HELP please! I am afraid they will go after the grown chickens next. I have 3 Old English hens that are as small as the fledglings were and a ten year old Rhode Island Red hens who is a love, but getting arthritis in her feet.
