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I was worried with the snap traps that I'd end up catching a chicken. Has this been a problem, or how do you avoid it? I guess there are a couple of places that I could possibly hide the trap that the chickens couldn't reach. I haven't had any success yet with the baited traps I set out a...

Thanks for the idea- sounds like a great one. I did go buy a couple of the rat traps tonight- the kind with the bait hidden inside. Hopefully they'll take care of the problem very quickly. I might look into your PVC pipe one, too- could use a few more for the other coops.

My daughter put poison out last year, but didn't shove it far enough into the rat holes, and I ended up losing a few chickens. So I'm hesitant to try the poison route. We're having rat problems now- I'm going to go buy traps. I know the rats won't generally disturb the birds, but they do eat...