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  1. Al Gerhart

    Mice in chicken coop- help?

    Nine hens x 25 pounds = 2.25 pounds of feed per day needed to feed nine hens. 22.5 pounds in ten days so you are feeding rats. Find Howard E.'s posts on rodent control here on this forum if you want to understand the problem and fix it. Basically you have sanitation, exclusion, or...
  2. Al Gerhart

    Mice in chicken coop- help?

    Good morning. Glad the feeder is doing its job. Just keep the action as stiff as possible for the birds you have. Springs can be made tighter by drilling a few holes in the side of the feeder along the top rim to stretch the spring out a bit. Springs generally have less power when they are...
  3. Al Gerhart

    Mice in chicken coop- help?

    I have seen hundreds of people saying otherwise and in my own experience in my coop before I built my first rat proof feeder. Rats and mice quickly learn to associate poison with the bait and nearly always will stop eating the poison until they are at starvation's door. And it doesn't matter...
  4. Al Gerhart

    Mice in chicken coop- help?

    You can try to mouse proof a coop but that is nearly impossible if there is a run and rats and mice can chew through wood and even concrete. You can poison till you are blue in the face, the rats and mice will simply stop taking the poison as long as their is another food source. What does...
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