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[chickadoodles]

You know a .22 has a ratshot round that works great.

I have found my Walther P22 to be a most useful weapon. I consistently choose it over the .410 for jobs like this.

Thanks Scg I did not know that. I will have to get some and try it. Thanks

You gals are just Scary.....

Haha Deb. Just trying to protect our food.

Yes, I think if they saw my fake fur hat on the ground, they would shoot holes in it

Hahahaa only if it moved!

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Quote: I had to put mine in a metal trash can the rats ate into the lid of the plastic on in the feed room. We pile the bags in it so we can keep the feeds separate.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: It really does look great! Rats and mice pretty much stay under the feed room they can't get to the feed in the metal garbage can. And we don't put out much food for the 3 hens we have left.
If I still have a large flock I would def use this feeder!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I don't have a feed room mine is out in the weather I hate to say I'm trying to expand my coop to add a feed room but will be a while a new coop comes first

 

[Bunnylady]

For those of you (you know who you are ) that have "had it up to here" with white stuff - here's white of a different sort

 

[Wickedchicken6]

We have both rats and mice...but mostly rats at the moment. When we cleaned the coop (garage) the one side of the floor is caving in where we step. I thought it looked like it was caving in from the outside when it thawed. Ugh.

I set all my traps as soon as it thawed but had to take them out of the cooponce I put chickies in the back. I caught a little oegb girl. She was not impressed. I haven't seen the rats back since their tunnels got crushed. I don't see anywhere as many rats this year so far. I think we made a dent with the dozens we caught. I plan to invoke a little pyromania and burn the excess grasses in the yard. That'll help with the rats and undesirables...less places to hide and proliferate. Burn it! Burn it ALL! (insert evil laugh)

 

[Wickedchicken6]

For those of you (you know who you are ) that have "had it up to here" with white stuff - here's white of a different sort

This made me laugh out loud. My mind always goes to a bad place first.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: "I am not accountable for the minds of others," the Bunny said primly.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

"I am not accountable for the minds of others," the Bunny said primly.

Im enjoying my bottle brush it's blooming and the humming birds are enjoying it so every chance I get im outside watching my chickens and humming birds overhead

 

[pennyJo1960]

@Wickedchicken6 burn baby burn

I hate rats
and moles

 

[Kusanar]

We had a rat at the barn.... It got into some daily dewormer than one of the horses picked out of her feed and dumped on the ground... it drug it's hind end about 15 feet before it finally stopped moving... Dewormer isn't poison, it's a muscle relaxer on steroids, it makes the worms relax and lose their grip so they fall out of the intestines, so the rat just got weaker and weaker until finally he couldn't move and his heart or lungs gave out... probably not a pleasant death...