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    New and need rat help !

    Thanks you! I just saw the link a few posts back with the article on rat info, I will take some time to read! Been so busy so probably won’t have time until this weekend. Little Update, Husband was very sick last week, but a after a few days he mustered up some energy to work on my rat...
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    New and need rat help !

    Thank you! My rat anxiety got the best me and I didn’t give a proper introduction- Wisconsin here! Fortyish chickens. We’ve had an EASY winter, wet spring, and the mosquitoes are torturing me when I go out to the coop on rat patrol. Looking forward to learning a lot more here about all things...
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    New and need rat help !

    We just started taking in the food into our garage at night, hoping that will help! The chickens free range most days but we’d leave the coop open so they Can lay when the want. Sometimes we close it and leave them to just the coop and the run.
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    New and need rat help !

    Thank you so much! I’ll be working a lot this weekend but checking in when I can! The kindness is overwhelming and wonderful from everyone here!
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    New and need rat help !

    Hello! No cats… we have a big outdoor sandbox and nice birds, so have been hesitant to get one. Hubs is against as is afraid of the cats urinating on things and using the sand as a litter.
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    New and need rat help !

    Details of this project 🙏pretty please?! We have so far done what I’ve said so far, and also given a good cleaning, added water to their crumble so it’s not as messy and is more contained, feeding in other area as well outside of coop. We’ve had chickens for over ten years, but suddenly got the...
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    New and need rat help !

    We’ve tried snap traps , shooting them, smoke bombs. The snap traps worked for a while, but I still see the poo, so I think not getting all of them. Also smoke bombed but holes reappeared next day or so.
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    New and need rat help !

    They are older birds, some sit in the nesting boxes at night. But it looks like the rats are snuggling in at night too.
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    New and need rat help !

    Thank you, I’ve been stalking the rats threads since December, but I just feel like I’m not getting it quite done to get them out, so I felt I needed to join with the poo pics for proof in case it happened to be something else that a seasoned pro could identify . Wishful thinking!
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    New and need rat help !

    Thank you , I already scooped it away, but it was a bit larger than an inch long, and not quite a quarter inch thick. There were about five in total. I’ve read some thing on Cecal poo, which I was hoping it was that. However it sounds like the consensus is rat poo. Also it does look very similar...
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    New and need rat help !

    Also sorry, not sure how I got into the hatching section. New at this , please forgive me 😊
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    New and need rat help !

    Can chicken poo ever look like rat poo?? We have rats near our dogs kennel and chicken coop, have tried all things to get rid of , cleaning, smoking them out , etc. new poo in clean coop though, wondering if it’s rats or chicken ?
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