Enjoy your meal Alex.Good evening peeps, roos and other beings. I wish all of you greetings.
(I just put the birds away, and it sure is empty in that big coop) Oh, well. I'm off to dinner now.
I will come back later, to catch up.
Yup I was going to say I found out dry ice is what the pros use when one can't use a smoke bomb for fear of incinerating something. Plug it up all around and throw that in there - as long as they're in there - and yes, I can't believe there's only one - and it will do the trick. Make sure there's no chickens around. What about decomposing dead rats though? I didn't find anything about what to do AFTER they're all dead! I picture a little pile. That could stink.Rat Update
The rats are not engaging with my trap in box. Color me surprised.
However..........
I now know where they live. They have run the groundhogs out from under my shed.
How do I know that you might ask? Observation.
I have cleared the garden of vegetables now that they have been frosted and have died. Once I do that I will allow the ladies in and I will turn it over with a shovel and allow them to worm hunt. They will smooth it back out for me. The other day the flock and I turned over the garden and left a fairly even but rough surface. We had a little rain and the rats did me a favor by packing down a pathway with their little feet drawing a line right to their warren under my shed.
Here is the rat superhighway.
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So today I staked it out. Here is visual proof.
Their dirty little secret is out. This is bad news for them because I am switching to a big bang approach. If I can pull it together tomorrow, I am going to dry ice their house and kill them all at one time, if I'm lucky.
Forgot to say congratulations on progress here!Rat Update
The rats are not engaging with my trap in box. Color me surprised.
However..........
I now know where they live. They have run the groundhogs out from under my shed.
How do I know that you might ask? Observation.
I have cleared the garden of vegetables now that they have been frosted and have died. Once I do that I will allow the ladies in and I will turn it over with a shovel and allow them to worm hunt. They will smooth it back out for me. The other day the flock and I turned over the garden and left a fairly even but rough surface. We had a little rain and the rats did me a favor by packing down a pathway with their little feet drawing a line right to their warren under my shed.
Here is the rat superhighway.
View attachment 2433370
So today I staked it out. Here is visual proof.
Their dirty little secret is out. This is bad news for them because I am switching to a big bang approach. If I can pull it together tomorrow, I am going to dry ice their house and kill them all at one time, if I'm lucky.
Fortunately it's half winter here. Snowing right now in fact. They should disappear very slowly. Partly frozen, partly thawed. Mrs BY Bob asked the same question.
Thanks. It has been very frustrating.Forgot to say congratulations on progress here!
The other thing is raccoons, coyotes or even a fox might be attracted. Probably that was Mrs BY Bob's next angle too?
Those are easier problems to deal with. We'll maybe not the fox. First things first, dead rats.The other thing is raccoons, coyotes or even a fox might be attracted. Probably that was Mrs BY Bob's next angle too?
Did you find the spoiler with the blush material?Of course in search of a blush I immediately tried to look it up
I had to search awhile. Eventually landed on an English slang dictionary web site that wasn't very specific http://neilbymouthgloss.blogspot.com/2006/04/english-slang-dictionary.html. No blush.
Sorry don't understand what you mean!
