Giant Rats! 2lbs! Graphic Pics

[ruby]

rat snakes will eat your eggs though......I have re-homed many! When eggs production goes down I look for snakes. Has any experienced a drop in eggs and feathers with this heat? My girls have gone into a early molt. Early for here, anyway

 

[BantyHugger]

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Yeah but a couple eggs and then re-homing isn't near as bad as mice. Course having a snake lunge at me is more than a mouse has ever done to me. Mine are molting now too but its about normal for here. I thought egg drop while molting was normal?

 

[ruby]

egg production will drop or even stop during molting. It's just early for my girls. My neighbors chickens started too! I thought something was pulling out their feathers,because they are under a year old. But my chickens usually molt in November. The heat has taken a toll this year for sure. No snakes or mice since I put guineas in the mix...

 

[Cheep a'lil Talk a'lil]

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I had to show the pictures to DH! He said "Nice! Whad' he shoot it with?"

So...what did you shoot it with?

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

Oh my god!!!! You shot Templeton!!!!

 

[QuailKeeper]

if there was ever somethin that size near my birds, id either pee my pants, or be too scared to get my gun- then id get my gun, then change my pants. try comin home to a squirrel IN your quail coop though. i lifted the top up and there's a bushytail sitting right next my quail. i brought my cat over to the pen, hit the pen a few times and my cat got some extra protein dinner

 

[BorderKelpie]

Ewww!
My boa constrictor is drooling now.

He thinks we need those. All you can eat buffet, anyone?


I bet that would eat my barn cat.

 

[QuailKeeper]

that thing is the size of my cat!!!

 

[Eggie and Me]

Yep, we live in Southern Ca and people tell me they're called fruit rats. The first time I saw one I froze, literally! Scared me to death. It pranced across the top of MY fence into our neighbors Lime tree, with a nice lime in its mouth, back across the top of MY fence and down into our back neighbors yard. Unfortunately I've seen it or do I dare say THEM several times since. The are brazen little buggers (word I wanted to use is much stronger).

I'm seriously considering borrowing my Son's electric rat killer. He's had great luck. He says it's quick, painless and a simple trip to the trash. Normally I'm the rescuer, not the killer. Buttttt these are my girls we're talking about here...

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Biggin. Problem is, this is only the one you GOT. There are others where this one came from. Get the rat poisen out and put your pets away for a week. You, are at war.

I had ones about this big and it took a round of "one bite" to tone them down.

I know I still have 'em cause I saw one just the other night.

Get a female barn cat and turn her loose. Welcome rat snakes and ground hogs as they tend to keep the babies in check.

A ground hog will destroy the nests, the snake will eat 'em.