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    Do not have only ONE nest box!

    My three girls (Jersey Giants) have 5 nesting boxes, beautiful ones. They all want to be in the same one. They work it out but that is where they are. I have even seen one sitting on top of another. I also have a raised dog house. All filled with chopped straw. They are who they are!
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    Cornbread rat cure

    I read this on line, so who knows what. I know my experience is inductive reasoning, but the Jiffy/baking soda seems to work here. For now!
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    Cornbread rat cure

    This is very interesting, and thank you. But at the same time, since I have been using this, rat population is about gone, and I have scooped up several that are “near death”. I need to do more research myself, and I thank you for this.
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    Cornbread rat cure

    I saw a rat today first time in a while but I also saw that the jiffy/baking soda mix had been “hit” during the night so I figure this guy is toast. There will always be a new rat arriving I suppose, so this is my control. Another trick: The goo in frozen packaging to keep things cold—If you...
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    Cornbread rat cure

    For more than a month now I have been using 50% Jiffy cornbread mix with 50% baking soda and a small handful of sugar mixed in, as recommended by a farmer who told me how to control rats. “Rats can’t burp a fart,” he said. I have scooped up 6 rats so far—2 dead and 4 barely alive. I have not...
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    Ratsbegone

    Yes, that is what I was told. Rat poison is at least as horrible and can hurt another animal that might eat a dead poisoned one. I had to do something. I continue with the essential oil sprays, natural repel granules that aren’t poison, in hopes they will just not come back. But I leave out the...
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    Ratsbegone

    Hi. I’m new here. I have three hens. I have been fighting the occasional but constant rat visitations. I have taken food away at night. I have sprayed walls and ceiling with peppermint/clove/etc sprays. But recently an old farmer told me to mix Jiffy corn meal and baking soda 50 / 50 and add a...
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    SERIOUS rat problem

    Here is something new to try, worked for me. You can look at video online. Old farmer told me to mix 50% Jiffy Cornmeal Mix with 50% baking soda, and a few tablespoons or so of sugar. Put out on a tray next to water. The rats eat, leave, die. Not poisonous to other animals if rats are eaten but...
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