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- Scottish Highlands
I was being facetious! When dealing with farmers, a sense of humour is recommended.Most rat shooters like myself will do it for nothing as it is our hobby
Rat problems in old grain stores
- Thread starter JohnDeere8530
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- Location
- Ceredigion
I had one sitting on the window sill looking in last night
Kids wanted to bring it in and give it and stroke
They feed the damn fox at the back door , as well as a hedgehog
Kids wanted to bring it in and give it and stroke
They feed the damn fox at the back door , as well as a hedgehog
Rat Reeper šā ļø
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- North wales
I feed rats ā¦ā¦.. lead !I had one sitting on the window sill looking in last night
Kids wanted to bring it in and give it and stroke
They feed the damn fox at the back door , as well as a hedgehog
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- Location
- Ceredigion
I don't think lead flying about in the streets of Brighton would be that popularI feed rats ā¦ā¦.. lead !
But I'm happy to film you
google jonathon tunmore will find him on face book has loads of old tractors and runs normac.. ratatac , is bussines name
he uses some blue paste called venom it works we have him he would soon clear you , and they have pack of dogs for ratting too
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he uses some blue paste called venom it works we have him he would soon clear you , and they have pack of dogs for ratting too
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Thats some rather fetching bangles for a grizzly old farmerI had one sitting on the window sill looking in last night
Kids wanted to bring it in and give it and stroke
They feed the damn fox at the back door , as well as a hedgehog
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"What happens in Brighton stays in Brighton"Thats some rather fetching bangles for a grizzly old farmer
If you fire malteasers you can come and use me for target practise!
- Location
- Highland
I had a lot of hen houses and feed stored, they defied every effort. Nothing is rat proof! We found that cats are the only thing that really works. The smell of the cat and the rats go somewhere else. We got them from Cats Protection, they always have outdoor cats needing homes.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
When i was a boy my mother had a large tribe of cats. Most were semi wild and lived in the farm buildings only coming to house every night for feeding. We kept among other things chickens they were another motley crew whose main determination in life was to peck one of the flock to death. It seemed they had some strange innate capacity built into their very small brain to unanimously pick out the next victim.
besides the cats and chickens we had a large herd of cows who worked hard to keep the farm viable.
alongside this were the rats, no matter how hard we tried the rats were everywhere despite the efforts of the cats which in the main part was non existent apart from one or two moggies.
it is a fallacy cats will do anything to keep down rats, small birds galore, the odd rabbit, but gangs of rats are too much for anything but the most determined cat
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
Ferret/polecat
Rat Reeper šā ļø
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- Location
- North wales
Shooting is the way forwardā¦ rat poison is expensive and kills anything that eats a poisoned rat . 
This.
At 55yo, I costed putting in a new grain store for the arable area here.... and then contract farmed out the lot on the basis that the level of borrowing was unsustainable.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Frank henderson wrote in his book that if the war ministry had allocated steel to build bins, to we would not have needed to import grain as so much less would be lost to rats
Farmersboy
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- Location
- South Lancashire
A mains electric fencer. The wire is 1-2 inches above the grain walls all round. Across the floor in front of the heap, 3x2 wood with the wire on insulators raised 1-2 inches up, connected with a lead to the wall top wire
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
I have posted in the past that when i was a child we bought a farm which had been a victorian model farm . They had electricity around the farm long before the mains . This was an 80 volt DC system wired with bare twin + and - strained wires running parallel around the buildings in china insulators in the eaves. To run a light it was simply a task of hooking up with a couple of crocodile clips, even small motors could be run in this way.
when the mains arrived our predecessors had taken the cheap way out and just hooked live and neutral to the wires no earth .
although much had been disconnected some areas were still live when we arrived and it was not uncommon to hear a loud squeal as another rat got fried Crossing these two wires.
i am definitely not suggesting this is an answer to the OPās issues