Cloud9
Well-Known Member
We have a rat problem in the barn - tried traps - caught two and a mouse - half our barn is our tack area and feed area (plus a kitchen) the other half for hay. All feed is kept in rat proof containers so that is not the problem but my looks like my last 11 bales of hay ruined - always find small quantities of rat poo on the top layer - but took a bale off to use and it smels like a hamsters cage and when I moved it the bale underneath and it was covered and I mean covered in the stuff. Am worried my horse might catch somthing off it. Am always very clean and clean my pallet before I put new on. I know rats and barns/hay probably go together but at 3 quid a bale I can't afford to keep chucking it? Any tips to stop them living in my hay?