i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

[pollipazzi]

I don’t want my chickens to eat rat. Bc rats are known to spread diseases. My chickens are scavengers and have access to the rat if its on the lawn. Im not sure if they would eat rat but i thought it was wiser not to try. Besides I don’t want a dead rat laying on my lawn anyway .

Chances that they are poisoned are very small bc its not allowed to poison rats in my country (except for people who have a permit). Rat poison is not for sale in our shops. Only can be bought by illegal online order.

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that's a good thing that rat poison is not for sale there. it seems to be the first thing people turn to here. please say roundup isn't sold in shops too!
i wish they would ban it here. i hate it a lot.

 

[pollipazzi]

the feeder opened!

 

[pollipazzi]

and no mouse last night!
the toes are safe!

 

[BDutch]

that's a good thing that rat poison is not for sale there. it seems to be the first thing people turn to here. please say roundup isn't sold in shops too!
i wish they would ban it here. i hate it a lot.

The authorities figured out that rat poisons do more harm than good. It kills the scavengers and predators too. So if the rats are gone bc of the poison, there are no natural enemies anymore either. And because some rats don’t respond to the poison anymore, they come back and multiply fast with very little predators to keep a status quo.

Unfortunately we can buy as much Round up as we like. The Bayer company is spending a fortune obtaining false research results for decades. The Dutch socialist parties are waiting for better EU laws. The fascist parties are helping the wrong farmers. And the democrats and Christian parties don’t seem to care much.
In the meantime, the Bayer lobby bribes politicians in the EU governments to postpone better laws on the use of horrible poisons.