Rats! Rats! Rats!

[LostBoi73]

I have had a problem rat ingress problem in my ayam coop. even with wire mesh laid inside and out they have gnawed through wood and pushed through where the mesh overlaps. Today i think i may have solved it! Aswell as the problem of what to do with all my aunts wine bottles lol. Yes i know its a little evil but so are they at times. I have filled the cavities with broken glass and pebbles the filled fully with expanding foam and re-covered with mesh. Im hoping glass and stone filled hard foam will at least give them a challenge? And may denture all together. Is this evil , stupid or justified

 

[azygous]

As long as this concoction is safely inaccessible to your chickens, it should be okay. Remember, chickens will peck at foam, eat foam, and in the process could consume whatever is embedded in it. You might have accomplished to same thing by stuffing steel wool into the cracks. Neither rodents nor chickens would be interested in it.

 

[cmom]

Personally I don't think it will work but... I had a rat infested coop. I tried a lot of different things to no avail. I ended up using poison. I'm not advocating using poison only that it is what I resorted to. I moved the birds out of the infested coop into another coop and then began renovating it. I took the ceiling and walls out and when I did dozens of rats of all sizes poured out. I found several nests in the ceiling and walls. The rats even chewed through a 2x4 to get to the other side of the stud in the wall. I had seen some rats in our barn which is behind the coops. I bought some rat bait stations. I put the baited stations in pet carriers and put them on shelves so only the rats could get to them. I had noticed some tunnels around the coops that I assumed were made by the rats. I did not find any dead rats laying around from being poisoned so I assumed they went into their tunnels and died. They buried themselves. The rat bait stations have a little window above the bait so I can check it often. Also there is a partition inside that the rats have to go around to get to the bait. Good luck...

 

[cmom]

This is the coop I renovated.

 

[LostBoi73]

As long as this concoction is safely inaccessible to your chickens, it should be okay. Remember, chickens will peck at foam, eat foam, and in the process could consume whatever is embedded in it. You might have accomplished to same thing by stuffing steel wool into the cracks. Neither rodents nor chickens would be interested in it.

I have pushed the glass through to tne other side of the mesh and it is also covered by a layer of foam this side . Most is also covered by somthing else aswell eg mating.

 

[LostBoi73]

This is the coop I renovated.
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Yup ist just a lets see kind of thing . Im thinking of just poring a concrete base straight into the coop floor and removing what it already has in it. Kind of like an integrated floor if you will

 

[Al Gerhart]

Find out what they are eating and deal with that first. Clean up all around the coop so they have to venture out in the open where predators are likely to grab them.