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[ronott1]

I hate to say this but I think the rat ate my baby duck.

It was gone, vaporized, vanished when I got home from work yesterday.

THIS IS WAR.

I will say it before OX, Time for bait!

 

[Bunnylady]

SCG, I'm really sorry about your baby duck, whatever happened to it.

Though I'm afraid I can't get terribly worked up about it right now. Baby

and I just made some banana pudding. My taste buds are in heaven!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG, I'm really sorry about your baby duck, whatever happened to it.

Though I'm afraid I can't get terribly worked up about it right now. Baby

and I just made some banana pudding. My taste buds are in heaven!

Make sure to post a picture. A coworker made some today but I didn't partake (I'm afraid the bees will maul me).

 

[dsqard]

SCG is there any way you can get some poison out there to get the rat that the birds can't get to? I'm with Ron, I think it is time to "weapons of mass destruction" your rat friends.

So sorry to hear about losing the duckling.

 

[ozexpat]

I vote for chemicals!

 

[ozexpat]

we dont need to worry about rats that dont have organic diets do we?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I vote for chemicals!

And a flamethrower. And a side of napalm.

I don't tend to overreact often, but when I do it looks something like this:



I had caught mites from a chicken swap.

And worms. The above is just my miticides.

 

[wolftracks]

Sounds like we need to round up rat wranglers and head for SCG's place. I'd be fuming right now. Poor little duckling.

OK.........Poison that sucker!!

 

[ronott1]

And a flamethrower. And a side of napalm.

I don't tend to overreact often, but when I do it looks something like this:



I had caught mites from a chicken swap.

And worms. The above is just my miticides.

I used this

and it was very effective. I put it out at night wearing gloves--in a place where only rats would get it.

It is a medium level anti-coagulant and if a pet or chicken eats the dead rat, it is treatable with Vitamin K.

Rats are very attracted to water so they do not have as much avoidance to it.

 

[ozexpat]

I used this

and it was very effective. I put it out at night wearing gloves--in a place where only rats would get it.

It is a medium level anti-coagulant and if a pet or chicken eats the dead rat, it is treatable with Vitamin K.

Rats are very attracted to water so they do not have as much avoidance to it.

Just to put into perspective the following is the amount required to be toxic in various animals.

0.3 to 7 mg/kg in rats,
3.0 to 7.5 mg/kg in dogs,
4.7 mg/kg in cats,
150 mg/kg in pigs,
50 to 300 mg/kg in mice,
35 mg/kg in rabbits

So basically a dog would have to eat a **** load of rats to get the blood levels needed to get sick