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

[~*Sweet Cheeks*~]

The mice/rats don't die on site because the poison is a blood thinner like coumadin. They bleed to death later after eating the poison.

I have found mice nests where they took some of the pellets to save for eating later.

Not sure if anything eating a mouse/rat that already injested the poison would get sick.

 

[Davaroo]

You may also wish to try bucket traps. All natural, made from common materials and take very little effort to construct. They are reported to work quite well.

Bucket trap: http://www.kountrylife.com/content/gal1017.htm

 

[Chicken Fruit]

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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.

 

[Davaroo]

Quote:

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.

Actually for all the talking most of do to chickens, we go pretty much ignored. Who knows, maybe mice and spiders are smarter?

 

[Brindlebtch]

Hi everybody! I'm a new chick owner and new here, too. Ya'll sound like a real nice bunch of folks.

Just to let ya'll know, if anything eats a poisoned rat the eater will be seriously poisoned. It is just like eating the poison except it is candy coated in a rat. One of my dogs ate a poisoned rat and was very sick from the poison, but many hundreds of dollars later lived.

Rats will also drag around chunks of poison, if you use the bars and not the pellets. We have had rats carry large chunks of poison from our attic out into the yard. For a while I had to check the yard every morning to make sure the rats hadn't left poison for our dogs.

We don't use poison anymore.

 

[Mahonri]

"JUST ONE BITE"

It works... buy it.

 

[Hillbilly Rooster]

I had rats in the fall and then in the winter I put my food in the hen house they would not go in there. This spring I put my hen house on a trailer so that nothing could live underneath.
Hens are said to protect there coop so that is the reason for the food in the coop.

I tried spraying ammonia in the rat holes and that seemed to slow it down some. The rats are not gone they just moved to next house with the cows.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

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I did. I put the stufff DOWN the rat holes I could find and pushed the stuff down the holes with a pole.

Three days later I have dead rats everywhere. two outside of the barn, a few in the barn and several in the office.

My concern was always that the chickens would start to peck on these guys and get poisined themselves. A few picked at them and threw them around, but non went for the meat.

I deligently search and pick the dead ones up.

Last night i waited until about 9 PM and went up to the chicken barn. No rats running about. I was actually set at ease. Not that I really gave two bits that they were there, it was just that It was freaking out my company when they went up to put the chickens up at night.

I never really had a problem with them harming my chickens, they were just a nuisance.

Now, I wonder if something else will find its way into the barn. My feeling was that these little turds kept a number of predators out of the barn. We will see.

 

[jhm47]

Actually, rats attract predators. They attract snakes of various kinds, both poisonous and non-poisonous. Rats also carry a variety of diseases and parasites. You are to be commended on ridding your premises of them.

 

[ducks4you]

I agree with chilling in muscadine and xadika--a rat terrior and cats. Get them as a puppy and as kittens and they'll get along great.

Meanwhile, if you are careful with the "Warfin", which is the standard rat poisin, you can control your population until you predators do it for you. When the rats are gone, dispose of the unneeded leftovers. I know someone who lost ALL of their peococks because they ate the rat poisin!