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.... the rats have moved into the hay barn and eaten all the poison.

But to my horror, when I pulled a bale of hay down a dead swollen rat fell on my head, ugh ugh ugh.

Whats you worst rat tale?
 
Bleurch! Maybe you should invest in some yard cats? At least they eat the evidence... ;)

My worst rat tale is horrifying in a different way... b@astards ate my thermatex :mad: and my nice PE nanobon cooler. And then they shat on the remnants. Buggers!
 
canteron said:
.... the rats have moved into the hay barn and eaten all the poison.

But to my horror, when I pulled a bale of hay down a dead swollen rat fell on my head, ugh ugh ugh.

Whats you worst rat tale?
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haha this made me laugh! sorry! :( I don't really have and bad rat tales...

once I opened a wheely bin full of feed and there must have been about 20 mice running around in there =/ The lid was broken and the feed room was actually a wagon body with a slim shelf running round the edge so they all just ran out and along the shelf in single file... it was quite a sight!

I also once found three baby rats in the middle of a bale of straw! They didn't seem to be in a nest and there was no sign of the mother - they were still pink, blind and hairless.. was quite strange.

Ooh and at the stud I used to work at we used to deep little the boys in winter and rats moved into the bankings of one stallion and often used to hear them scrabbling about when mucking out!
 
I went to lay a straw bed from straw I'd piled up in the morning and stuck the pitchfork into a pregnant female rat - she screamed and screamed and I didn't know what to do, or how to get her off the fork. I had to knock her off the fork agains the side of the muck trailer, tt was nightmare material....
 
Triskar said:
I went to lay a straw bed from straw I'd piled up in the morning and stuck the pitchfork into a pregnant female rat - she screamed and screamed and I didn't know what to do, or how to get her off the fork. I had to knock her off the fork agains the side of the muck trailer, tt was nightmare material....
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Oh my god that is vile !!!

Worst encounter is a drowned one in my water bucket swollen and half sunk staring at me like it was going to jump out of the water - dragging thebucket out made my skin crawl and it must have thrashed about a bit as my mare didn't want to go back in her stable that night


yuck yuck yuck !!
 
When I was younger I used to bed my boy in straw. I was mucking out one morning and saw a little paw in the straw, I uncovered with the fork and lifted out the flatest pancaked rat ever, my boy must have lay on it!
 
Triskar said:
I went to lay a straw bed from straw I'd piled up in the morning and stuck the pitchfork into a pregnant female rat - she screamed and screamed and I didn't know what to do, or how to get her off the fork. I had to knock her off the fork agains the side of the muck trailer, tt was nightmare material....
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Could have just put your foot on it & pulled the fork out?! Did you have to kill the poor thing afterwards or did she die when you forked her? :eek:
 
I kept my horse at a chicken farm and there were loads of rats.

The quick way to the field without a horse was down between two sheds. At night I always stamped my feet so the rats came running out before I went down and trapped them.

I told my OH to do this but does he listen :D

Out he came full tilt closely followed by the rats :D:D:D
Big beggars they were too :):):)
 
yuk, these tales make me feel a bit queasy!
I once found a dead rat underneath (?!) the horses water trug in his stable, starfished, flat and dead, who knows how it got there!
Also found one just inside the stable of my warmblood, having been stamped on! It must have scuttled in to get the bits of dropped feet and the horse trampled it!
 
I'm sitting at work laughing out loud to these posts!!!!!

I have had a few encounters one was lifting my hay bale to find one curled up looking like it was just asleep but the size of it, god i haven't seen anything like it before.

Mice are constantly around and one thing i hate is seeing all the droppings everywhere and when i had left my riding hat out..... lets just say that went in the bin!

One rat had eaten poison and been attacked by the yard cat so was half eaten behind and found down by the water tap still alive so one of the liveries boshed it over the head to put it out of its misery...... gross

Rat running across the school scaring the begeebees out of my horse!

They are a right pain with any rugs or stuff that you leave out so now all my rugs come home when cleaned.
 
Last year my rats were shiny bright eyed and quick to get away, conformationaly they were perfect, they were fed on the best food available, I could have won prizes and I was proud! Then I got the rat man out, they started to go down hill, no longer healthy shiny and happy. They didnt run away, in fact they looked at me for help and made a sad little squeaking noise when I tried to get them to move over so I could muck out. I was no longer proud, in fact I was depressed at the action I had taken.
Anyway, so I never ever have to feel so guilty again, I have, at great expense, the rat man every month!
 
My horse was put down last winter in the very cold snap. Id left her rugs in the field shelter and collected them about a week later. In that time a mouse family had moved in. I bundled the rugs into the back of the car they stated there till the summer. Upon remOving the rugs we found 4 dead mice! The smell was terrible! Those poor mice!
 
Yard I used to go to had a horse who would literally boot any rat in his stable so it was common to find halved and splattered rats when mucking out, shame he apparently also killed a yard kitten in the same manner.

Years ago - I worked for Dairy Crest delivering milk. Used to deliver to a farm who had loads of chickens in the barn- I had to leave the milk in a crate with a board and a brick on top. I saw a rat literally dragging a largish young chicken along the wall of the barn - the thing was massive :(

Few days later, approaching the farm and saw this huge rat run into the road ahead of me - thought nothing of it until I'd delivered the milk (and came back the way I'd come afterwards - no more that 5-6 mins later) - saw the rat literally in the middle of the lane I'd just come down with THE flattest head. The float was a 3 wheeler and I'd obviously run it over LOL !

My worst experience was as a child, I would have been 7 or 8. My friends cat had kittens and her mother insisted they live out in their outside shed (brick built -wooden door next door to the outside loo, used to be the coal store). Well, as kids we loved going in there to play with the kittens, we opened the door before school and found the half eaten carcasses of these poor kittens - mummy cat was found later absolutely covered in rat bites :( She'd tried to save her babies, its got to have been more than one rat that attacked that night :( I had nightmares for years about rats...
 
OK you win, I thought having a dead rat falling on your head was bad, but this would have completely freaked me (and some people are scared of spiders, duh!) ...

Triskar said:
I went to lay a straw bed from straw I'd piled up in the morning and stuck the pitchfork into a pregnant female rat - she screamed and screamed and I didn't know what to do, or how to get her off the fork. I had to knock her off the fork agains the side of the muck trailer, tt was nightmare material....
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My friend moved into a very old and tatty period house that her and hubby were doing up. There were rats in the house and they had put down poison. She was very tired and putting away the childrens toys before going to bed and realised she had picked up a half dead rat that was staggering across the lounge.

Aaaaarrrgh !
 
Triskar said:
I went to lay a straw bed from straw I'd piled up in the morning and stuck the pitchfork into a pregnant female rat - she screamed and screamed and I didn't know what to do, or how to get her off the fork. I had to knock her off the fork agains the side of the muck trailer, tt was nightmare material....
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Triskar definitely wins this one I think... I'd have had a caniption !
 
BigRed said:
My friend moved into a very old and tatty period house that her and hubby were doing up. There were rats in the house and they had put down poison. She was very tired and putting away the childrens toys before going to bed and realised she had picked up a half dead rat that was staggering across the lounge.

Aaaaarrrgh !
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This has made me chuckle! :D
 
Last winter I discovered a very fat, glossy fieldmouse living in the bottom of my blue chip feedbin :rolleyes: He got relocated to a nice hedgerow, if it had been a rat i don't think I would have been as kind!
 
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