Big Scary RATS!!!

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I don't know the answer, just that it is the label's claim, and my experience and that of others. Scroll down and read in this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=417149&p=2

I've had a rat problem too this year and so I was going to get some of this poisen since I had seen it posted on here several times that it wouldn't harm an animal who ate a poisened rat or mouse....however when I read the label in the store it says on it there is a risk to any animal that does eat an animal who died from this poisen. I have a lot of outside barn cats who hunt around my pens plus two outside dogs and Im afraid to risk it.
 
If you could get a lawn mower close to the 'holes' get som flexable electrical conduint ( home depot or lowes ) large enough to slide over the exaust and go into the hole , That's how I cleared up my rat problem here .
 
Well I did some work on the rat holes Saturday.. stuffed them full of brillo pads... complete with the blue soapy stuff.. just put on a pair of gloves and shredded the pads and stuffed them in the holes.. a friend of mine also suggested a good sprinkling of chili powder into the holes and then top it off with some white vinager then some larger rocks and a good amount of dirt pounded into the hole....so far yesterday and today the holes are untouched. I also cleaned up the chicken yard a bit.. I think they were going after the left over scratch I threw on the ground.. now the girls get everything in a dishes.. they still grab and run with thier treats but it is not as messy now
 
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I have a lawnmower and i can get right over the holes. what is electrical conduint, and what does this do to the holes/rats...thanks!

Its a rat killin! Ever listen to Jerry Clower? you really must.
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I will attempt to explain a more healther method. If you take a 3-4 inch PVC pipe and cut it into aprox 3 foot pieces. Make several of these. Buy some rat traps the Kind that are glue and the Rats get stuck on them. Place 2 of those one in each end of the Pipe and Push it back out of necks reach of a chicken.
thus why you cut them 3 feet long. Place these all around the outer perimiter of your coop. (meaning lay them along the walls inside the coop.)
Put them like this. 2 traps on the long sides so 4 traps about 1 foot from the corners and 1 trap on each short sides of the trailer. about middle of wall. When you catch the rats on the glue boards Simply remove it with gloves eradicate the rat. I like to use a strong thump for mouses and a hammer for large rats. Pull it off the trap. you can reuse these traps a few times before there not quit as sticky. then you can Just toss the traps replace them with new ones and Every bird in your flock is safe from any types of chemicals or poisons.
 
Years ago I found rat holes in our dog pen. After I saw the first rat, I backed the car as close as I could get it to the hole, then ran a flexible plastic pipe from the exhaust pipe into the hole. Let the car run for some time (can't remember how long), and our rat problem was gone.

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Rats are really smart the rat you need to kill is the alpha male. He will let his young eat the poison bait and he will wait 4 days before he will eat the bait to see if his offspring eat it. Mix the bate with a food he can't refuse like cashews and set traps that spring shut on them. It is really horrible when you catch one but it works also I have live traps too they work as well. If you see one that usually means you have more then 10. I live by a feed mill and they come to my farm to vacation from the city life. LOL!
Good luck and it's not pleasent but they deficate and urinate every step they take. I save all my old light bulbs and when I get a bunch I smash them and put the glass in the holes and around the house where the chickens can't reach it seems to work too:(
 
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