Rat Wont Die!!!!!!!

[NHchicks]

Wife drops broom and jumps up on coffee table dancing and screaming like I had just smacked her with a broom. LOL.

See, that is why I am such a big contributor to the mouse poison industry. I never see them, I never hear them, they just go away... (Hate to be cruel, but they don't pay rent, so they get evicted...)​

 

[sharol]

My cat brings in voles and mice to play with, and my Golden Retriever and Dachshund dispatch them (after much barking). Occasionally one will get inside the wall, and the doxy barks it out. They actually come out of the wall to be killed. We call it suicide by Dachshund.

 

[bigathena]

Bait box and decon buddy !

 

[Doormantnt]

Hay rebel...how you making out with the demon rat?? Is the trap still holdin up??

TNT

 

[bfc chicks]

Well the rat robed my cage traps over an over. It even tried to eat a plastic rat trap... I did finally catch a rat in a big sticky trap tonight... Took 6 rounds from my pellet gun to kill him. Dont think that was "the" rat though. It was a big rat but not as big I don't believe... We shall see....


But the question I have now is..... If it was "the" rat, who do I get to unset my homemade trap?

I'm still looking for the answer to a major rat problem which I am still fighting. 7 years ago the farmer behind me cleared his corn field and the rats moved into the barn. I started seeing blood on my cows ears and would notice that her feed box was totally clean so I fed and milked her, turned her out into the pasture and poured a bag of rat poison into the box came back an hour later and the box was licked clean. Didn't have a problem until two years ago after the farmer again took off the corn and the dirty rats moved into the chicken house again. Tried every thing couldn't get rid of them. In the spring I hatched 225 chick's and put them in the brooder house two days Iater as I went on my routine, over night they kill 200-4 day old chick's and just piled them in the corner behind a empty feed pail. I have tried shooting them, mixing baking soda with flour and sugar cocoa with powdered sugar and flour. Golden malrin with pepsi, Chuck peanut butter with rat poison and they just lick off the peanut butter and leave the poison pellets and every thing else I can think of. My cats may kill one or two but won't eat them neither will my aussies. Any suggestions please help.

 

[cmom]

I have posted this previously. First, I'm not advocating using poison. I tried many other things first. I had a coop that was infested when I started renovating it dozens rats of all sizes poured out of the ceiling and the walls. First I moved the birds to another coop. I found several rats nests as I was taking out the ceiling and walls. I resorted to using poison. I bought some rat bait stations. I put them in pet carriers on a shelf in our barn which is behind the coops and that way only the rats could get to the bait. Rats are good climbers. The rats didn't like the bait that came with the bait stations so I bought a different bait and they liked it. There were also tunnels around the coops that I assumed were made by the rats because I did not find any dead rats laying around so I also assumed they went into their tunnels and died so they buried themselves. There is a little window in the bait stations above the bait so it can be checked daily. Eventually the baits were hardly being touched and I wasn't seeing any activity. I still keep the bait stations with bait so if any rats try to move in they won't last long. Inside the bait station is a partition the rats have to go around to get to the bait to eliminate them from getting the bait out of the bait station. Good luck...