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misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:28 pm Post subject: rat hole?
ok so today i go feed the animals i come across this i got 2 holes where duck house used to be i took it down and was some loose soil so leveled it off put some seed down and 2 days later this arrives so at a guess i say its a rat hole. what do you all think?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45505
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:29 pm Post subject:
looks like ,digging time

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:34 pm Post subject:
did not think of digging my JRT would love me do that lol how deep do they go?

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:35 pm Post subject:
Shouldn't be too deep. Get Nightwish over with his air rifle, he's dying to try it out!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45505
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:39 pm Post subject:
follow the run a homeless rat is a dead rat in most places harsh but effective with no chemicals or two hour sniper waiting even if not dead run away is a good start

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45505
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:40 pm Post subject:
if you sniff it will smell of rats i recon

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45505
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:42 pm Post subject:
traps /reducing food and homes is good for keeping em to safe numbers

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 5:47 pm Post subject:
I had a good dig at the back of the hen houses today - and wish I had had some terriers with me! Certainly dispersed a few furry critters anyway, lets hope they 'hole up' further down the field...

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 6:53 pm Post subject:
well tonight just before dark i dug 6 inches down about a foot square with my girl next to me no rodents as of yet. i have let earth turned over. i found a nest of hay and feathers and a stash of what looked like a hedgehog of green spikes was of course the stash of corn they had trouble is the ground is so rocky so could not let dog dig to much

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45505
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 7:10 pm Post subject:
no house no stash good start i like and admire rats as pals but not as pests

SarahB

Joined: 09 Sep 2007
Posts: 869
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed May 25, 11 5:51 pm Post subject:

OK, so if I know there are rats living in the space under my hen house, can't find any tunnels and can't get under the hen house - how do I get rid of them?

I don't want to put poison down unless there's no other way. Don't want my hens eating poisoned rats, and don't want the local cats getting it either. Also don't really want rats rotting under the hen house....

I don't have, or know anyone with an air rifle. On a budget so expensive deterrents would have to be known to work to be worth it.

Hmm, is there a Downsizer How To document/article somewhere?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed May 25, 11 8:23 pm Post subject:

Soapnutter wrote:

Hmm, is there a Downsizer How To document/article somewhere?

Indeed there is, courtesy of Bodger.

SarahB

Joined: 09 Sep 2007
Posts: 869
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed May 25, 11 8:35 pm Post subject:
Fabulous, thank you. I couldn't see for looking.

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