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Pouring cement is easier than you might think, but you could also hire someone to do it for you. Craigslist comes to mind if you don't have someone you already know. For a 5 x 10 pen, I'd be tempted to pour a 4" thick slab of 7 x 12, leaving you a 1' margin all the way around. I calculate that...

Looks to me like you are on the right path. As you have observed, they can survive on things you wouldn't think they would eat. But if they are down to eating droppings, then the bait blocks might look better to them than if they still had access to the chicken feed. The anti-coagulant baits...

As you start this rat control effort, limited feedings is a great idea, and if you also decide to go the poison route to get control of things, limited feeding of the birds is the critical first step to success with poison. Goal is to put a hunger pang in a rats belly so they are more inclined...

This is the companion video the CDC and Army produced to go along with the rat control video that started this thread. Produced circa 1950, but remarkably principles are still as valid today as they were then. When you are looking at rat proofing, or if you hope to rid yourself of them by...

A lot of folks find themselves in the same place as you, and not sure what to do about it. This may help....... https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/rats-when-the-army-went-to-war-on-them.1216226/page-2 This is the 2nd page of that thread, where it cuts to the chase as to how to deal with...