RATS!!!!

I have been using this from my local feed store to eliminate rats and mice in my chicken coop, I made a 2 foot by 2 foot wire cage to place the bait pellets into. This cage prevents the chickens from accidently eating any of the poison. So far....so good.

 

You do. They follow their urine scent on trails. You will need to wash the traps after being used. I shove them in a bucket of leaves for a couple days after using them in my neighbors chicken pin.

 

Everytime I put poison out they carry it off, cubes or bags, all will be gone in a couple of days.

I have found it in my lawn mower, hollow chunks of firewood & other various oddball spots.

 

Not too long ago you could buy the granular stuff in these small, flat single use chipboard boxes. I put one out in the shed where I was finding mouse doppings and it was gone overnight. I found it all several months later in a bag of potting soil.

 

I used to use the pellets in my cabin for mice, but like you said, I'd find them everywhere in oddball spots including inside the oven hot mitts.

 

Tomcat or the like works for me, but I don't have any other critters to worry about getting into it.

These look promising.

A24 Starter Trapping Kit

 

I used to be a D-Con user. Now I just get the bait chunks or one of the little plastic bait boxes. I put one of the little boxes in each piece of equipment during winter. I see them get nibbled on, but I don't find nests.

 

I have cameras around my house. In February, we got a cold stretch and i started seeing rats on camera for the first time ever. Always the back camera near my wood shed. They would be out every night at, and just after dark.
I played around with 2 vector wooden snap traps and 2 black plastic tomcat traps in my shed. I also moved a camera into the shed to monitor them. All traps were handled with latex gloves and baited with a mix of peanut butter and jelly. The tomcat traps were slightly more effective and my camera got video of a big rat getting snapped squarely in a vector trap and then wiggling out of it. Tomcats are also much easier to set and get the vermin out of.
The camera made it quite sporting. I only killed a handful of them and then didn't see any more on my cams.

 

Last winter we had a rat in our stone farmhouse. It actually ate the drain line to our dishwasher, twice! Put a hole in the back of our dry goods cabinet. Made a mess of things.

I think it came in through our basement and went up a small crawlspace like area under our floor where there is duct work to our kitchen. I went full nuke on them and put the black traps out with peanut butter and blocks of the green poision in kitchen and in basement. Nothing in the trap, but I did see blocks of poison missing, then eventually the smell of victory settled in. Though my wife wasn't happy about the smell, she tolerated it a couple days for getting rid of them.

Strangely Ive never seen signs of them in the chicken coop. I know they are coming from my neighbors property. I stopped feeding birds outside the patio because rats were coming in. I caught those with the big black traps. Had some collateral damage with a chipmunk. I hate rats!!

 

I caught a third rat, a juvenile this time. We are going to set up some pipe traps with rbg’s. Without older rats to set an example, they are more prone to making mistakes.

 

I've heard great things about ATN scopes. It's amazing what these types of scopes have come down to price wise over the years. Only a few years ago any thermal/ night vision scope was 3k.

 

Yeah, last time I looked, they were 2,800 and up. Now china makes a $400 phone adapter that can mount on your rail and the phone is the viewer. Mixed reviews on it, but still cool. I would probably get a flir viewer and a dedicated thermal scope.

 

You can get a re-manufactured ATN IR for about $500, new they are around $700, last time I looked anyway.

 

a pan of cornmeal mixed with baking soda is deadly to rats.
Rats can’t fart or burp.
So when the baking soda expands, the gas has nowhere to go and kills the rat.

 

So rat farts isn't a thing?

 

I started shooting them. I put a red light in the coop. This is not abnormal for the rats because we had a red heat lamp this winter. I sit outside at night and wait for them to jump in the feeder. It’s a bucket and pan that hangs from a chain. I cut a piece of cardboard to cover most of the pan so they have to come to the door side to eat. They learned to spin the feeder so it points away from the door!!!! I was out there tonight and the bucket wiggled and then slowly started to inch around about a quarter turn! I was like WTF!!!!! How do they know how to do THAT?!

We have some rat x coming tomorrow, so we will see what happens when we put that put for them. With my past luck, they won’t touch it. Either way, I am going to get them, if I have to burn the coop! They are pizzing me off something fierce. We think one got into a new batch of baby bunnies too, because two babies were out of the nest and each had a leg chewed off. What’s worse is they were still alive and I had to put them down. I have had it with these rats. If the rat x doesn’t work it is thermal time, even if I have to get it on credit.

 

I hope your rat x works.

I had a problem with them wising up to my red light as well. If I left it on constant even on a very low setting they would just retreat & try to wait me out. That’s why I just flash it occasionally to see them then use the non visible red light to blast them.

Maybe you can add a couple other chains to your feeder so it doesn’t spin, just for nights when you are going to sniper them. Unlatch them during the day.

Good luck with your rat genocide, they are nasty things.

 

Very true. Fortunately there are many air gun rated scopes available from many manufacturers. cheap to expensive. I sold my spring air rifle several years ago. I have a 22 cal Seneca dragonfly now. It will dispatch a rabbit out to 35 yards.
25 yard group...

35 yard group...

 

Rat sucking genius that is!
Suck em up, knock them out (bouncing off the baffle in the SV) and then drown em!

Sound like a bad horror movie actually!