Can't get rid of rats

[Sweepa]

Tried rat poison (cubes and pellets), they still come back everytime. It seems like there is a never ending chain of them. Any tips?

 

[Oh bullocks]

Get a couple of terriers

 

[Sid]

Get a couple of terriers

and a 410

 

[SilliamWhale]

How much have you put out though? How much have you used in a month?

 

[ARW]

catch some and turn them into cannibals

 

[ratchet spanner]

Tried rat poison (cubes and pellets), they still come back everytime. It seems like there is a never ending chain of them. Any tips?

I gave up trying to contol rats when they collected all the poison bags(the ones that look like a tea bag ) and used them to to make nests in the stored fertiliser . I now pay the local council vermin control sevice and never see a rat or any damage caused by them . Try the council it may be cheaper than you think.

 

[Spartacus]

Guinea Pigs are meant to get rid of them, only problem then will be the infestation of guinea pigs!

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Where are they ? You'll need to try and clear any places they are feeding/living, if that's not possible just keep baiting, make sure to change your type/make of bait regularly, if the bait is going keep filling it up till it stops going, it's a long haul but worth keeping on top of them

 

[Kevtherev]

Mix pink plaster with barley

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

A good pest control company

 

[grumpy]

A good pest control company

thats pretty much it then get a few cats

 

[Flossie]

I make my own bait bags using vinyl milking gloves. Might take them a few days to trust them, but then they think they've got a prize and drag it off. This has been out 2 days, but they trust it enough to walk over it (note the dirty footprints) The gloves look a bit gory I suppose!!

Got one of these on a run at back of calf shed (minus rat) Spurs you on to keep filling it when you can see the little buggers dropping it
And keep picking a few off with the air rifle
And get a Bongo

All that should shift some

 

[S J H]

I don't think you can beat a couple of cats. Must be the cheapest option aswell

 

[Brisel]

You might well be getting rid of the rats, but at this time of year they are all coming in looking for a winter home. I'm getting through a hundredweight of bait every fortnight. Found 6 dead rats in the last week though.

 

[Steevo]

This time of year you seem to get rats, rats and more rats. All you can do is keep feeding them as often as possible. If they're taking the poison then you're bound to be doing plenty of good. I've been through 15kg at least in the last 2 months and it's still going.

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Rat pack with smokers, terriers, whippets, stickers, stompers and whackers. We cleared hundreds and hundreds out of each poultry shed on a turkey farm. Then keep on top of them with a few cats, fenn traps set in tunnels along runs. Cage traps or other rat traps, look on google. Someone with an airgun and a lamp / night vision to mop up. You can use a punctured tin of tuna or cat food, liquidised food that the rat can not pick up and run off with or an apple tied down to hold the rats still in one place so you can shoot the blighters.

 

[Clive Tee]

Guinea Pigs are meant to get rid of them, only problem then will be the infestation of guinea pigs!

You don't want an infestation of Guinea Pigs, they'd drive you mad if they were like this one.....

 

[Donkey Oaty]

We use spring traps nowadays. Gave up on poisoning. We got the traps from a company called Solway Feeders.

 

[Brisel]

No resistance to them, or lead, terriers etc!

 

[Hilly]

Live traps, poison, gun, cat, throw everything at them we got infested a few years ago for the first time threw everything at them bar the kitchen sink and got rid of them big relief !