I have no ideas…I did all those metal plates and moved pavers and last night I saw rats in the coop againWell, it is war, yes war with a mouse. I’m about sick of his games. I went and bought sticky traps. I tried baiting the snap traps with caramel and even chocolate. I hate using sticky traps but this one can’t stay in my house. Just can’t. So I cut one side off of the trap so it is flushed with the wall. He has been running on my backsplash. And then I put one on the side of the stove. He has been coming up from behind it. I think somewhere we didn’t seal something as good as we thought when we put the gas lines through the floor. Anyway, normally he climbs up my power cord and then right onto the backsplash. Well today the little smarty pants diverted it, I watched him do it. So I put another on top of the power cord. SOMEHOW he diverts all 3! I put one by my sink as he must be getting water from there. And I seen him leave the sink, run up to the sticky trap, stops and finds another way around!So I cut another trap side and put it next to the other. Next step is getting the long snake rat ones. I have no idea what else to do. And I can’t use the poisons with all the animals we have around here. I’m at a complete loss. I asked my mom too and she had no idea what else to do. Ugh! Any suggestions and I will take it.
So I went out and moved in MORE pavers and checked at 2 am—RATS IN THE COOP. I’m going to lose my marbles. SO today on a work break, I went outside, pulled out the nest box, pulled out all the cinder blocks and found the tiny sliver of blue sky they were getting in thru…I THINK. So I swept out a huge amount of shavings and dirt and arranged the cinder blocks different and then covered them with pavers…until I have time to do something more permanent this better work!! Poison hasn’t worked, rat cages haven’t worked, the ultrasonic buzzers haven’t worked…and I checked the run camera and saw this—I’m going crazy guys. It creeps me out seeing soooo many
I think I’m gonna try the bucket—whatever the cost as long as it works!! 
I’m exhausted from all the heavy lifting and anxiety it’s causing—I feel your pain @FBMcrazy8 !!It does seem to be thrush or at least a fungal issue for the chickens now. Brownie got three days of monistat cream and a bunch of thyme and cinnamon, a bit of ACV and VetRx, as well as forsythia extract and she appears to be all better. Eye cleared up, cheesy growths gone, appetite back and laid an egg last night. She climbed up on my chest on her own and stayed there till I went to bed. She’s just such a sweet bird
Tonight I went to sit outside with everyone and check on her as I let her rejoin the flock and I couldn’t find her so I was calling her and she actually came to me and sat with me till it got dark 
I noticed a bunch of them have white stuff on their combs too, so I will definitely be drying out their run and giving them all some antifungal aids and hope it does the trick! They don’t care for the copper sulfate water at all so that isn’t helping a ton—although Nohope seems a bit better today, so it’s definitely helping him. Nor is the lack of food to eat since the rats keep cleaning out their feeder! I bought a feed supplement that I’m going to mix in tomorrow to their feed along with pomegranate peel powder, thyme and cinnamon. Yesterday they got Greek yogurt with greens…hopefully this starts to make a difference!
@TropicalBabies i hope the sneezes are only sneezes!
30 bags is truly impressive! Well done 
I don't have kids, don't have a 9-5, have a small home, have an awesome dh and our weather is almost always the same.
though my little house is a mess right now -looks like a bachelor pad 
- and I don't have a single Xmas decoration up beside the house lights dh put up 
