Rats...live with 'em or trap 'em?

[Guinea Goonie]

Just to let you all know. The wife and I were at a horse barn and they JUST HAPPENED to have a mama cat that was pregnant.

Well, I now have a cat, although she is pregnant and in a big dog cage she is calming down.

I figure about a month from now I will have a nice mama kitty that will have a good time with the mice in the horse barn.

Then after her ktties are getting bigger, she can move on to the chicken barn.

Here kitty, kitty !!

 

[Davaroo]

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Thank you.

Nothing against rodents, mind you - but they are far better dead than being dealt with.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Just to update you all. The mama cat has had her kittens. They are all doing great.

I have been picking up rats all over the barn and outside the barn. Just tonight, after three days baiting, I foun ydet two more, one was still alive so I drowned it.

I have covered all the rat holes with dirt so I will know if there are more. I did see a really big sucker tonight, but I think this one is the one comming from the milk barn and raiding the place. I do not think it lives in the rat dens under the cement of the barn office.

So, I am placing a trap like I did when i first started this. This one will get a special lunch of poison and a environment of a rat trap to eat it. I know exactly where the little turd is comming into the barn and it is using a path that the chickens can not get to.

Oh, I am getting so hateful of these little turds. My company that comes over to experience the farm is so afraid of them. Now I hate two animals, rats and goats.

 

[pwand]

Here is a link to a bucket Rat trap that might work. This one is put in the ground with a wire put through a corn cob. Looks interesting. I'm going to give it a try.
http://journeytoforever.org/at_rattrap3.html

 

[Ladyhawke1]

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I'm gonna try this, does it work?

Personally I think my So Snakeman secretly likes them being here just as long as they are not in the house. He has 28 snakes to feed and he is always going outside, turning over dog houses and anything else a rat would hide under. He will stomp them or shoot them with 22 bullets. I think he uses long rifle, non hollow points. Bullets that will go all the way through the rat and not leave any lead pellets inside because this would kill his snakes. All of our neighbors are farmers for many miles around and we know that none of them use any poisons or we wouldn't be able to take a chance feeding one to a snake. Free snake food, but it might sound gross to some but this is what they would eat in the wild. He totally want admit it but I know his secret.

All jokes aside though, rats here have destroyed so many things I had stored in my barns and they will get into your walls of you house and chew the wiring. I read recently a stastic on the house fires that burned form rodents damage chewing through wiring.

If your problem is small now than get rid of them before you become overwhelmed.

All joking aside iam serious. i tell them they cant live here. Same with mice in the house and the wasps that nest in the eves.

Its my house, my domain, my space, I have authority over it.

My neighbors used to think I was nuts. Probably still do- but theyre used to it now. it works. wasps's have actually left their nests half built never to return.

I also carry a strict one spider policy in the house. The first one gets to live to tell the others not to come in. Works well except for those tiny little black spiders with gray designs on their tiny little backs. darn things are obstinate.

You should try it.

You must have read "KINSHIP WITH ALL LIFE". Great book. I found that it worked with ants.

 

[rigagirl]

I say kill them! The damage that they caused to our yard out there is pretty bad. Then they must have gotten crowded out there and a momma moved under our deck and she had a litter of 9 baby's! we put up a extra fence to cut chickens off from old coop and pulled inner walls out of old coop just incase, put out RAMPAGE and CYKILL. not sure which one worked better but it has been a week and we haven't seen a sign of mice or rats. both packs say with in 24 hrs is needed but with in 12 hrs we started finding them. Plus they were cut off from all chicken feed so i am sure that helped. I found a couple like 30ft from the old chicken coop so you really need to look for them if you have pets or kids but it is so worth it. we found 7-8 big one and we smell death in the holes they had in yard. We had to also clean up where my husband had piles of wood or what ever else he had. he likes to save stuff case he needs something. I think he has learned his lesson on where or how to keep stuff like that.