We've had huge pack rats for a long time. I kept putting out mouse poison but it only killed the mice. They are outside and inside we've found nests inside a dresser drawer, a hole in the wall of a closet that looks like a nest. I finally got some poison the feedstore recommended and now we have dead rat smell. Bad, but better that seeing them running around your house or hearing them in the walls. My son almost drove over a nest of rats with the lawnmower. He stopped when he saw a bunch of rats running. He looked and saw a bunch of little hairless rats the size of full grown mice. Of course the chickens saw them too and that was that for the rats. Of course all the grown ones ran away. I've tried traps but after you catch on or two the others wise up and quit getting in them. I put the poison in the closet where I saw their nest and a pile of rat poop, behind the refrigerator, stove, couch and by the sacks of chicken feed. They must have been using that route in the closet for months according to all the poop pellets.
Welcome! You lurk around here long enough you will find some folks selling. Also, there are some facebook groups that can get you some chickens. It doesn't matter where you go, buyer be ware. Unfortunatly not everyone knows, or tells you what they are selling you sometimes.
Thanks for the tip! If I didn't spend so much time with my chickens I'd go for it. These ones most likely are flighty though, and I would want a more close knit relationship. I raised my last flock from eggs, and my dutch banty would even fly on my shoulder while I mucked stalls. I'm hoping to have that kind of relationship with my flock again.
