Rats

[markm]

We have a burn running through the main wood by the side of the pain pen. I don't want to restrict feeding to the pheasants yet to get the rats onto the poison but they are building up in numbers. Any hints to get the rats onto the poison?

[Teal]

Is there any reason why you could not run some tunnel traps?

[stubby]

rats will not just eat poison when there is another food source that they have been using, you need to remove all other food sources, then you may get takes, far better as already advised, try putting some tunnel traps down,

[ack-ack]

rats will not just eat poison when there is another food source that they have been using, you need to remove all other food sources, then you may get takes, far better as already advised, try putting some tunnel traps down,

 

 

Bang on the money.

 

We used to hit the rats round the feed bins in the laying pens for a month at a time. The rats fed mostly during the night and the ducks during the day so blanking off the feeders of an evening was no biggy. The poison dispensers were simple but very effective. They were made on the farm of four inch drain pipe, one bit of about a foot and the upright part was about three foot. These were mitered and plastic welded to form an L shape. This was lashed to a vertical spile and the opening was partially obscured with a brick on its side. The whole lot was cordoned off with weld mesh about two foot high to stop the ducks getting at the bait. The vertical pipe was topped right up and a bean can went on the top to keep the rain out. After a few days the rats found the bait and then it was a case of topping them up daily when the bins were opened up in the morning. When the poison stopped going down you start seeing flies around the rat holes and it was fair to say job done. We used slaymor (rakes of it!!).

[mark g]

Bang on the money.

 

We used to hit the rats round the feed bins in the laying pens for a month at a time. The rats fed mostly during the night and the ducks during the day so blanking off the feeders of an evening was no biggy. The poison dispensers were simple but very effective. They were made on the farm of four inch drain pipe, one bit of about a foot and the upright part was about three foot. These were mitered and plastic welded to form an L shape. This was lashed to a vertical spile and the opening was partially obscured with a brick on its side. The whole lot was cordoned off with weld mesh about two foot high to stop the ducks getting at the bait. The vertical pipe was topped right up and a bean can went on the top to keep the rain out. After a few days the rats found the bait and then it was a case of topping them up daily when the bins were opened up in the morning. When the poison stopped going down you start seeing flies around the rat holes and it was fair to say job done. We used slaymor (rakes of it!!).

you can also move the pheasant feeders further away from the rat holes and put the poison close to the holes they are quite lazy

[Alycidon]

I dig a small hole, place within the hole a plastic or ali container from a takeaway or similar, dig a small channel leading down to it, fill container with rat poison contained within bank cash bags or loose ( the cash bags will keep it fresh and dry), put a sheet of hardboard over the top with a couple of bricks over it, make sure the tunnel access is open. Ratty will soon clear you out.

 

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Edited October 11, 2011 by Alycidon

[Paul223]

add some hot chocolate powder to the bait

 

and feed it in bags like geoff ^^^^^ said

Edited October 11, 2011 by Paul223