Charolais cattle
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- Location
- Ireland
How about a bit of meal with cement mixed wit it.. they eat cement.. get thirsty and go outside for a drink... and cement will get hard inside and kill them...
Can't get rid of rats
- Thread starter Sweepa
- Start date
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
Local man with telescopic sights and night vision specs and an air rifle offered to come and shoot ours through the night - good as his word and cleared them out. One wet night the weather drove him into one of our buildings where he shot 35 mice! A good shot me thinks.
Daniel Larn
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Definitely this, if you've got someone with an air rifle and night vision you can knock down 100 rats night on a busy shoot.
farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
They need to be farm cats from mothers that taught them to rat... not snowflake cats
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Whole barley with pink plaster mixed in works too.
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Got my two ginger toms from the vets as kittens, not seen a rat here for a long while, exept for the odd half eaten one
RushesToo
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- Location
- Fingringhoe
Stop feeding the buggers.You are wasting money if you have rats. Stock or human food is being wasted and an efficient method of breeding vermin is working well.
MF 168
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- Location
- Laois, Ireland
Block bait is the only one to use and nail it down to pieces of timber so rodents have to eat it instead of carrying it off to the nest. This time of the year and with meal piled up for the cattle I keep the place riddled with poison between bait boxes and the aforementioned nailed down bits. It's rare I'd see a rat. Filthy things and I dread seeing them.
Fenn mk4 rat trap, 10 for £80 on eBay. 3 x 3ft length of old scaffold board or similar to make a tunnel no more than an inch wider than the trap. My preferred bait is Nutella chocolate/hazelnut spread (Asda smart price imitation in fact) it smells nice and has to be eaten on the spot. Iv caught 3 young ones all together once, must of been gagging for it.
I advise to bury them in dirt or grain etc to make them smell like their surroundings for a week or so before use.
I know of a vehicle that had £7000 damage done to it’s wiring loom, makes £80 sound cheap.
I advise to bury them in dirt or grain etc to make them smell like their surroundings for a week or so before use.
I know of a vehicle that had £7000 damage done to it’s wiring loom, makes £80 sound cheap.
I have a solution to your problem that I used for around 10 years, no bait , no resetting , no maintenance needed. Find and cut a 40 gallon plastic barrel in half, set a long length of plastics 4" down spouting propped up to it. (You will find rats love to investigate a pipe and go up to the top end.) Then make the top 18" into a swinging hinge with a small magnet to hold the pipe firmly in place until the rat walks to the top, then it will suddenly give way and drop the rat into the barrel then swing back to re-set ready for the next one. Dispose of the rats as you feel fit. Mine worked for years in that configuration without any alterations and cost NOUGHT.
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