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Build, or buy, a treadle.

If your plan is to kill every rat out there you will become frustrated very quickly. As Folly said rats are very smart. If they suspect something is a bit off they won't touch it. I've caught rats in traps, but by and large these were the younger ones. The surest way to get rid of rats is...

I thought the rats were the end of me and chickens. It got bad, real bad. But, when you start making sure there is no way they can get the feed they go away pretty quickly. Every day now I do a check to make sure they aren't there. Hang in there. Just make sure you are doing everything...

I know you say there is absolutely no food for them, but there has to be some somewhere. Every critter needs to eat. Perhaps you were previously leaving out chicken feed which attracted them originally and these are just the ones left over? I had rats, lots of them. It was my bad practices...