Ughh, rats! Help me convince my husband to poison them!

[Naunnie]

Yep! Rats/Mice can be a problem. First thing I would suggest is to ask.... why are they here. Even if you pick up the chicken/duck food, something is still attracting them. Find where they are nesting. Once you find that spot...then put out the poison, but....make sure nothing or no one..... other than the rodents, can get to it. Many... an innocent critter has been killed by Rat Poison. There are several different "types" of poison out there now, so please...check the labels.

Any "rat poison" will make the rodent thirsty. If you put out poison, put it in a specific location, and provide a water dish. The rats/mice will eat it.... get a drink.... and die right there. You will still have to dispose of the carcasses, but not for very long. Strange as it sounds...the word gets out to the rest of the rodent community...and they will move on. Where they go next...well that's up to you. If.... they do not find food or shelter they won't stick around.

I also have to add...if ya got rodents....ya might want to keep ya eye out for snakes. I don't do snakes....in any shape... form ....or fashion! ) but they do go hand in hand. Some folks will keep a King snake around to control the rodent population.

 

[LoneOak]

When I went out to my barn this morning and opened the door to the tack room where my brooder pen is located, I could tell immediately that something had been in there and moved a bunch of stuff around. Several items on a high shelf had been knocked off and a bin I keep odds and ends in had been ransacked. I checked the month old chicks-15 Rhode Island Whites- and everyone was in good shape and spirits so obviously the intruder wasn't able to disturb them, 1" chicken wire did its job. I started cleaning up and putting stuff back where it goes and happened to see in the floor one of the bags of rat poison I had put under a low shelf of a work table a couple months back. The bag was ripped wide open and there was no sight of any poison anywhere in the bag or on the floor or under the shelf. It appears as if my late night intruder ate all the poison in the bag after he couldn't find anything on the shelves or in the bin to eat. Hopefully he headed back to his hole in the ground somewhere close by maybe carrying a treat to share with his brothers and sisters in their hiding hole.

I will just have to wait and see if there are any new signs of his presence but I hope he is dead and slowly decaying back to the dirt in which he lived and I hope his family joined him for the 4th celebration as well!

 

[Wonky Pronk]

I've used the bucket trap with spinning can with success. http://www.shtfblog.com/how-to-build-best-mouse-rat-trap/ Here are some instructions