Cornbread rat cure

[ReneesRanch]

I have had the lil bastahds dig way down under my hardware cloth. I saw one trying to breed with another last evening. Now I will be ripping the entire sided off hardware clothe out and leaving that part wide open and covering under the coop (which I build raised so they had an extra extra shady cool place) however now I will fill that entire area with small stone, then larger stones then even larger stones. Any holes I gain access to I will toss down a fogger and hopefully gas them before burial with the stone.

Put a ring cam out. Everyone has them. It’s unavoidable imo. They lurk. I have three fox dens. Ironically they never have bothered my chickens in 7 years. But I do see them with an occasional rat. Any I catch in traps are their dinner.

 

[ReneesRanch]

Another idea is let them free range most the day and give them food in a spot you can clean up any spills at the end of the day. I am trying this now also.

 

[MROO]

Folks, before falling for these old wives tales and spreading false information please take one minute to Google the information.

First, rats do fart.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/17p813y/til_that_rats_can_fart

https://www.ratforum.com/threads/so-umm-do-rats-fart.39925/

https://halcyonwandering.com/2018/02/do-rats-fart/

And no, baking soda or cement or plaster of paris or any other old foolishness put in feed or bait doesn't harm the rats under natural conditions.

https://bobseyes.net/baking-soda-doesnt-kill-rats-2/

Now, sodium bicarbonate, AKA baking soda, CAN kill a rat if they eat 20% of their body weight of baking soda. Even more ridiculous, the OP's receipe of 50% baking soda to cornmeal, requiring the rodent to eat 40% of its body weight.

Google this term "scientific study rodenticide sodium bicarbonate" without the quote marks. Gemini will come back with a result disproving the idea of baking soda as a rodentcide and many studies where rodents are GIVEN baking soda to stop a poison dose at just the right level for a study, as an antidote to other poisons, or to prevent the rodents from passing food to quickly during scientific studies.

A forum search will turn up another white paper I published a link to that details the amount of baking soda needed to kill a rat and another scientist that tested plaster of paris. The result, some sore rat biden holes but otherwise healthy rats.

Spoilsport! Just when there appeared to light at the end of the rat tunnel!