I haven’t read all the responses but 1/2” hardware cloth properly installed will keep EVERYTHING out except bears.Oh right.
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I haven’t read all the responses but 1/2” hardware cloth properly installed will keep EVERYTHING out except bears.Oh right.
Thanks for checking into it, Allsfair!@Meg-in-MT i thought u made a very good point so decided to research issue. From what i could see, chicken lice and mites are GENUS/avian specific; live happily on bird species but not long on mammals. Unfortunately that means the lice and mites from rodents CAN & do feed off humans and other mammals. Another reason to keep rats away from human dwellings.
We used live maze traps to catch them, and it totally worked. Caught 10 a day! The problem is, you have to find a way to kill them after you catch them alive, which isn't fun, but those traps were defenetly catching them! link- https://www.amazon.com/RUGGED-RANCH...19483&sprefix=muti+catch+live+,aps,281&sr=8-7Hi Weeg!
I set two traps that I already had out in the chicken pen last night. The light turned on more than 5 times, so I'm sure there are still rats. We checked the traps around 9:00 PM and there was nothing in the traps but we SAW a RAT run into a hole!This morning, the food around the run was gone but the traps were untouched. Grrrrr! How smart are these things?
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Ya! No problem! Glad I can help out! Did you check your hens for parasites too?Thanks for the info!
I read almost all of it, and I'm going to finish it today! Thank you again for the help!