Rat in duck pen, what to do???

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I was also going to say to get a little box and put some traps or poison in it and cut litte holes in the box so only the rats can get in. I had a similar problem, I have an 8x8 brooder barn and I just turned the chicks loose in the floor and let them run the whole barn and one mornin I can out and found lots of dead chicks, some were missing, some may have had their heads eaten off, but most were just dead. So after talking to others about it, they said it sounded like rats, and I also had hole in the middle of the of the barn ( it has a dirt floor) and it just kept opening back up no matter how much I fill it. So I took all the chicks out and turned over some boards that were laying aginst the outside wall of the bar and saw two young rats. So then I got some poison blocks and put them around the inside of the barn and I ran the water hose down in that hole to maybe drownd anything down there. And a few days after the poison, I started finding dead young rats like the size I found under the boards, and I guess the bigger one that was in the whole and that was probably killing the chicks died too becuase I never saw them again and the hole stayed covered.

So maybe try the box with the poison or traps in it. They also make some kind of wire traps that catch the rats alive ( this is made or a serious rat infestation problem, and when a lot of them get caught in there, you just put the cage in a bucket of water and drownd them all. You may want to consider that if you can find one or find pics and make your own.

Also look up bucket rat traps, these are basicly like a teter toter thing on a bucket with water in the bottom, and bait is put at the end of the teter totter and the rats fall in the water and drownd.