Rats got into feed

[mnkymcbean]

We are handling the rat problem, but how do I dispose of 50 lbs of contaminated feed? I was going to dump it in the field by my house, but I don't really want to help the critter population.

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome!
I'd spread it out further away, not in anyone's path.
Mary

 

[nuthatched]

I'd throw it away in the dumpster so it's not attracting more rats to the area.

 

[neo71665]

Go in the trash if it was me

 

[cmom]

I would dump it off a ways. It it will attract rats them attract them away. I have had some contaminated feed that I dumped way back on our property not anywhere near the coops. I went out a few days later and it hadn't been touched. I thought for sure the fox and coyotes would eat it but apparently they weren't interested. I had a rat infested coop. After I moved the birds to another coop and started renovating it dozens of rats of all sizes poured out. I felt like I was in a Hitchcock movie The Rats. I tried a lot of different things to catch the rats but they didn't go for them. I finally bought some rat bait boxes and put in my barn which is behind my coops because I had seen some rats in the barn too. I put the rat bait stations in pet carriers and up on shelves so nothing but the rats could get to them. I did notice some tunnels around the coops and barn which I think the rats made. At first I replaced the rat baits quite often but didn't find any dead rats laying around so I assumed they went into their tunnels and died so they buried themselves. I don't advocate using poison if there are other ways to control them but here there were so many and several nests in the coop I renovated, and with nothing else I tried working I just wanted them gone. In my bait stations there are little windows above the bait so it can be checked regularly.

 

[mnkymcbean]

I would dump it off a ways. It it will attract rats them attract them away. I have had some contaminated feed that I dumped way back on our property not anywhere near the coops. I went out a few days later and it hadn't been touched. I thought for sure the fox and coyotes would eat it but apparently they weren't interested. I had a rat infested coop. After I moved the birds to another coop and started renovating it dozens of rats of all sizes poured out. I felt like I was in a Hitchcock movie The Rats. I tried a lot of different things to catch the rats but they didn't go for them. I finally bought some rat bait boxes and put in my barn which is behind my coops because I had seen some rats in the barn too. I put the rat bait stations in pet carriers and up on shelves so nothing but the rats could get to them. I did notice some tunnels around the coops and barn which I think the rats made. At first I replaced the rat baits quite often but didn't find any dead rats laying around so I assumed they went into their tunnels and died so they buried themselves. I don't advocate using poison if there are other ways to control them but here there were so many and several nests in the coop I renovated, and with nothing else I tried working I just wanted them gone. In my bait stations there are little windows above the bait so it can be checked regularly.

For some reason that I can not even begin to explain, my husband poured the bad bag on top of another bag of feed in the metal can we use. So we ended up having to dump 100 lbs of feed in the woods.

 

[cmom]

I had a similar situation once. I was pouring feed into buckets and when I opened one bag it seemed ok the other bags were fine but near the bottom of the bag it must of gotten wet and moldy feed came out. Luckily I only had one bag to deal with which I dumped out way away from the coops in the field.