Grrrrrrrrrrh ** RATS ** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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What do you do to erradicate RATS at your Stables
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Unfortunately I have to store some of my Hay and Straw in the Stable used as my Tack come Feed Room and this is a lovely Haven for RATS Grrrrrrrh .....

I have a bait box and this usually works, however the cheeky bu**ers are happly sitting on my hay overnight and eating away shi**ing on it
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Consequently Motor is now not eating his Hay, as he is such a fussy boy
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TB is not bothered though, which is strange
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They even found an unopened bag of Happy Hoof and when I went to open it, I found the biggest hole in it and could fit both hands into the 'void' left
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.... I know I should not leave an unopened bag around, but needs must sometimes
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What methods do you find successful
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Go to your nearest Cats Protection League shelter, pick up a couple of semi-feral kitties, set them free in the stable and.....

....job done
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Ha ha ha ... that would be a lovely idea, however they are on a private Farm, which has a cat, but unfortunately he is on his last legs and not interested
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Perhaps I should encourage them to do it though .... I may put the 'idea' in their head next time I see them
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Get Rentokill to give you some proper rats poison boxes and lay them in their 'rat runs'.

I hate them too - and I've got 6 cats who avoid them like the plague (of course mice/bird and voles are fine, just not rats).
 
Yeah, if their old boy is on his last legs anyway, he's not going to be bothered by two wild cats doing his job for him
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And the owners wouldnt have to feed them - let them hunt for their dinner
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Since the shop/cafe has been shut down the rats have found their way in
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Yesterday my usually dim terrier dog sniffed one out behind the desk, OH moved desk, rat ran out, dog stopped it in its tracks, sniffed it and let it carry on running!
We went round to the kitchen and there was a bin bag on the floor, I said to OH 'I Bet there's one in there' He acted hard and tapped his foot on it and a rat ran out! I was in stitches by look on his face!
THEN... Rex (terrier) was sniffing about in butchery and had found another one, OH chased it out from behind the boxes, it came out screaming! Rex was trying to play with it, me and daughter were screaming and OH was trying to hit it with a broom handle cos it turned on Rex trying to savage him, then the bloody phone was ringing! It was like a mad house lol!
OH did kill it in the end, Rex was quite upset though, he thought he had a new friend!

We shall be getting rat poison!
 
Being on a farm we are over run with the beggers!! There used to be loads of cats but they have all got old and died off! Ive resorted to the sachets of bublegum smelling stuff from the local farming shop, just put them down and leave big buckets half full of water about and you'll soon have some floating. I hate them, nasty things! x
 
next time we offer you a cup of tea you might want to wash your own cup,I found a dead baby rat in the sink yesterday! it had been got by something then abandoned we threw away the two mugs that were in the sink with it! x
 
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next time we offer you a cup of tea you might want to wash your own cup,I found a dead baby rat in the sink yesterday! it had been got by something then abandoned we threw away the two mugs that were in the sink with it! x

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Ooooooooooh noooooooooooooo
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.... but I will miss you all sooooooooooo much
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. I would rather have you and all the rats in the world than being left all on my lonesome next door (tear smillie here)
 
Experiment with the type of poison you leave (ours particularly liked the blue coloured wheat ha ha) and leave lots of different bait points. This time of year always seems to bring out the rats (and the mice which we have in our loft at the moment arghhhhh)

Just one more every day job added to the ever increasing list - check bait boxes.... .
 
I have a rat or a mouse that has moved in with my guinea pigs
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It was on the top of the cage originally, but today I found a nest in their sleeping box
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There is a cat that comes to the yard, and sleeps in merlins stable, but it hasnt got this one yet
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What I do and it seems to work, is get one bucket of rat poison and put some in a short length of drainpipe or a lemonade bottle with the ends cut off. Keep putting it down until it stops going. Then if they come back by a different brand of rat poison and do the same again, eventually you will get rid of them, by using the same poison all the time, the rats will become immune to it.

Also leave a bucket of water near the poison as the poison makes them thirst and they will go in the bucket and drown.

Always make sure you don't use the same poison all the time.
 
I tried the blue coloured wheat poison, and put some down, and then more, and more and more.....I reckon I was feeding half of the rat population of Kent!!!

When I cleared out my pallets in the Spring I found one very dead rat, one half dead, and one not so dead.

The best 'rat killer' I've found is what someone on here suggested:

Half fill a dustbin of water and sprinkle oats and straw ontop - you have to add to it every few days as eventually it sinks.

Leave it standing next to your bales of hay.

Ratty will jump in thinking 'yum' - 'eek' - plop.....can't get out... and eventually will drown (eeooowww!!)

And they sink too, so if you don't look every day you find them piled on the bottom!!

First emptying of my butt - thinking the oats were making it pong - tipped the bin out, and out washed 3 smelly bloated HUGE b*ggers.

Made me gag and gag!!!

Shovelled them all up and chucked them in the woods.

Haven't seen any yet this year.....but I'm sure they're there....lurking.....
 
five cats and two JRT's and we are still over run with rats! The JRT's have never caught a thing in their lives. Poison and an occasional visit from a ferret helps, but we still have the things, I also hate them!!!!!!!!
 
Echo that. 1 cat (ancient and can't be bothered) 4 JRs, all completely inept in the rat catching stakes.

Currently using sachets of the blue wheat stuff, bl==dy rats ate my Bliss bedding, also nibbled 1 bale haylag, 2 sacks of nuts and a sack of balancer, did find a dead one the other day though - made me feel better.

Would try the dustbin/water combination but I just know I would gag, I hate anything drowned.
 
we've got a big mouse living partly under my daughters bed
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and partly behind the toilet (that's where we've found the droppings). i saw it run across the hall whilst i was eating my lunch the other day.
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have to put down a humane trap because the kids just want to put it outside
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and it manages to get the bait and not get trapped - the bugger
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hope you get your rats sorted - it's so annoying when hoss's food keeps getting invaded. had to keep letting a mouse out of my horses feed bin last year - don't know how he managed to get in there
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haven't come accross any live rat's so far but i'm sure they are out there.
 
Had same problem - rap cr*p on hay, etc. Tried the blue poison blocks but they liked it soo much they even ate into the bucket to get it!! Get the RED blocks (only for use in boxes or securely where other animals can't get to it) seems to work.
 
Get yourself an electronic rat zapper, poison is only a temporary solution. Electronic pest controllers make the place uninhabitable for rats (and mice). Before I had mains electricity on the yard I had a couple of battery powered units, now I have a device that sends electrical pulses along the electric wiring that deters rats and all the buildings with electric wiring are now free from rodents! Just google electronic pest repellers, they're really cheap too.
 
My YO has a pest control man in regularly to the farm who places bait boxes around and that seems to keep it under control. Shame really, Popple would love to has some of the beggers to chase and kill - anyone want to borrow her??
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Gah, my JRT is useless!! Cornered one the other day, wagged her tail and looked round at me as if to say "mum come and meet my new friend!" Silly sod! Needless to say it got away!! I somehow dont mind mice, they come into my guinea pig shed in the winter to keep warm and are actually good company for the old girls!lol! Just rats I cant abide!! x
 
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