All except the actual feed because so many said not to use pellets but didn't give a reason. So I'm gonna try pellets. What I will do is have 2 batches going. So it won't be so much work. Always have one ready to use. Thanks for all your advice it. I wouldn't be so adamant about the rats if...
I know it works for mice. But not rats. I tried it. Rats are quite smart. I'm the only one with chickens within 5 miles so there is no where for the rats to go. My neighbors had rats last spring but they left their coop open one night and a fox got all their chickens (5) and then I had rats.
Heck my fence isn't even 8 feet high . See below. I tell ya these rats are something else.
Your last sentence sums up my idea to a T. I had to laugh at one person here who posted about another's take on rat proofing your set up. First he said rats can jump 8 feet and then he said to put your...
I have an artisan well and a $4000 water filtration system. RO. With a brine tank. No CLORINE and no Arsenic. Hardness was way high. Iron content high too. Best water in 16 counties. Have to be careful with laundry detergent or I have suds every where. LOL.
I really kinda understood the...
Not all "rat proof" feeders are made of plastic. They ones that have the PVC elbows in them are great for rats to crawl into and feast. Plus the birds bring up food onto the lower lip and then flick it out. Actually, the maker of those feeder tell you when teaching your birds how to get them...
He doesn't make them here in the USA. He sources them out to the Philippines. As is said often don't believe everything you read on the internet. Rats are like predators, you don't have them till you have them. I didn't have them the first 2 years I didn't have birds either.
He won't sell to me. He thinks I won't use it correctly. And as I said before the rats around my place stand on their hind legs and eat out of the one I have right along with the chickens. And I had read that they rats gang up on the Grandpa feeder ( 3-4 of them) on the treadle while another...
I feed 18% pellets all year round. I was thinking of feeding FF to get rid of rats. They can't fling FF out of a feeder and they eat at set times and then take it up. The rats I had last summer would stand on their hind legs and feed out of a feeder right along with the birds. EEEEEEEE. So...
#1. Can I use Nutrena 18% pellets and scratch.
#2. I read lid not on tight and then I read lid on tight. Which is it?
# 3 Can I put meal worms in the fermentation bucket or on top?
And any other advise you might have on the subject. Thanks.