Rats

[T_T]

Don't get me wrong, I do not like cats but I wouldn't be too keen to frighten them off altogether for obvious reasons.  Keep plenty of Rat/Mouse poison down and a friendly rat hating cat.  It's one solution.

[Guest numpty01]

sh   ing bricks more like ;D ;D

[Guest bigda]

Antifreeeze is top draw. Best way is to make a paste with it and Digestive biscuits and peanut butter. Rats can also not resist fatty stuff like fried sausage,smoked fish skin or skin off boiled bacon

 

stop! you are making my mouth water, sausages, bacon,fish teas,  stop  no more  i am on a diet :B ??)

[Guest vining45]

rats nearly made me give up apeice of 4 inch pipe about 18 inches long hole cut in top in middle to put bait in leave under loft with large stone or weight of some kind to stop them taking it away use block bait or whole wheat  it worked for me i now keep bait under loft all the time

[Guest Owen]

I have bait boxes out and about all the time. A couple of weeks ago I found a huge rat sitting on the lawn, dieing. As others have said, I realise that, where there is one there will be more. I will continue with the bait boxes, but I will also set some fen traps, baited with chocolate and peanut butter.

Unfortunately, my neighbour has a piece of ground behind my garden which is badly overgrown with weeds and where rubbish has been left about. The rats have all the cover they need to travel around.

[Guest vining45]

try offering to clear a few yards so theres open ground i`d chop it in to small areas with fire brakes and burn it a bit at a time

[hotrod]

try chocolate they just love it ,i have found they really go mad for a lion bar ,if theres a rat about and i set my fen trap with a piece of  lion bar in it ,the next morning good night irene GUARANTEED.

[beechessam]

trays of water with anti freeze,bye bye rats.

 

The trouble with antifreeze or other similar methods is that dogs also love the taste of it and within 24 your dog will have died a very slow painful death.

 

Set a decent trap line and bait boxes, that will keep on top of rats and your dogs safe.

 

[Skull Lofts]

a pest controller told me to put porridge oats mixed with cement powder it allegedly sets in there stomach you could say they end up stone dead ,havent tried it myself yet it could be an old wives tale...pete

 

 

We even use this method in Sout Africa.

You mix equal parts of Maize meal, Icing sugar and Cement.

 

Skull

 

[Roland]

a pest controller told me to put porridge oats mixed with cement powder it allegedly sets in there stomach you could say they end up stone dead ,havent tried it myself yet it could be an old wives tale...pete

 

Yep, have advocated that a few times on here. Can't get immuned to that either. Worked for a Food company where rats thrived. Told the bosses how to do it as above. Twits asked rent a kill who said it was illegal and not allowed to do it. So mate did it any way, was a time when walking to the canteen - had outside walk to get there - when the women were pertrified and there were loads.... so much for rentakill. Mate put the cement down as above.... 6 Months we was privately thanked later in a much as if we had.... two faced gits, there were no rats left.

And of course the Anti freeze digestive and peanut mix does great.

[jimmy white]

where are new loft is there are a lot of rats about so what i intend to do is trap as many as i can then i getting a ferret that will live near the loft in the hope the smell will keep them away and if i can get a very small gill i send it down there holes

 

rats will kill pigeons , usually eating the grain from their crop, once they have did this once, they will certainly do it again, their very crafty for traps , but i have found that  chocolate  is one of the best baits,  and often gets the better of them. rats and mice are very bad for spreading paratyphoid [salmonella]

ive  kept  ferrets for many years,   very secure , from the loft, off course, but often run them under the loft and surrounds, i find this does tend to keep the problem of rats  at bay, if the ferret corners a rat , it will kill it in seconds ,as shown on pic below

[franny41]

i had them climbing onto the loft roof and coming down through a vent i had...i put avairy wire over it ,would not have believed how clever they are...they manouvered down the v perches to the floor ...skilled rodents...more like circus acts,isnt the saying ...when the bomb goes off... all there will be left on earth is cockroaches and rats!

 

you've read a brian plummer book hav'nt yae 8)

 

did you check to see if it was a dog rat or a doe if it was a doe she will be pregnant and looking for blood and protein

to nourish her unborn young keep on top of things by getting a couple of baiting stations and keep them well stocked up

also keep your fenn trap set but make sure its under a hut.cheers

 

Franny.

 

[retired]

 

rats will kill pigeons , usually eating the grain from their crop, once they have did this once, they will certainly do it again, their very crafty for traps , but i have found that  chocolate  is one of the best baits,  and often gets the better of them. rats and mice are very bad for spreading paratyphoid [salmonella]

ive  kept  ferrets for many years,   very secure , from the loft, off course, but often run them under the loft and surrounds, i find this does tend to keep the problem of rats  at bay, if the ferret corners a rat , it will kill it in seconds ,as shown on pic below

 

Looks good to me Jimmy, will keep the ferrets on standby.

 

 

[cheeseman]

i live on a farm and there are always rats about had one getting into the yb loft about a year ago it would get into the loft and kill one brd i sat in the loft every night for a week and as soon as i was gone it was back, so i set tunnel traps round the loft ,and lo and behold i caught the bigest ugliest alpha rat you,ve ever seen after that no more rats in loft the traps are left set all the time with excellant results having accounted for numerous rats stoats and weasels and a grey squirrel

[Roland]

Fortunately haven't had rats.... Mice yes.... caught one last week .... first since January. Just about every house hold has one or the other... If yoy think diffently then time to check it out big time! I rebait my traps regularly.

Sure the swarm into the houses off the fields in Autumn. BUT most don't leave. So trraps etc. are on over time then. I have about 12 down most  days.

[Guest Freebird]

i live on a farm and there are always rats about had one getting into the yb loft about a year ago it would get into the loft and kill one brd i sat in the loft every night for a week and as soon as i was gone it was back, so i set tunnel traps round the loft ,and lo and behold i caught the bigest ugliest alpha rat you,ve ever seen after that no more rats in loft the traps are left set all the time with excellant results having accounted for numerous rats stoats and weasels and a grey squirrel

Well done mate. Aye they're no daft. They can smell you a mile off. Got to admire them as well as hate the gits. Cheery.