Feed is not accessible to the rats - unless little bits get rinsed out of the bowls at night or spilled when the ducks have a bowl in their tractor in the yard. I bring in the feed bowls at night and so far rats haven't broken into the duck run which is protected with hardware cloth. I am going...
We finally got the game cam up last night and it revealed a gigantic rat and a smaller, possibly baby rat. Ugh, I could see it eating the food I set out for the trap - baking soda/muffin mix - but it was so big I don't think it could even enter the container, which had a couple inch diameter...
Yes for sure on the bunnies. In our 6 years at our house we've never had more than one per summer and they don't seem to last long - I always thought coyotes were getting them. This year we have at least half a dozen rabbits and have had several babies. They are so adorable I love them and they...
I have read that they use other rodent's tunnels. Maybe it is a rat. I was just surprised at how big the area was where it had been digging and how much dirt was displaced. Seemed like a bigger animal. I had hardware cloth going down a foot and out a foot around the coop, but in the area is was...
Did the mink make it into your coop? I have hardware cloth buried a foot deep around my coop, but just discovered that something has tried to dig in. I have a mold tunneling all the way around as well, so I'm trying to differentiate between the two. How likely is it that the mink would dig down...