Stab them with pitchfork ,the buggars still squirm about ,I don't even like picking a dead one up with a shovel
They go a long way. I found a dead one in a field half mile away. Old farmers tell of mass migrations when hundreds would suddenly move to another farm.How far to the fecking things travel?
I often wonder if the rats I kill are related to the ones my Granddad trapped in 1929 or if they are immigrants.
YeahThey go a long way. I found a dead one in a field half mile away. Old farmers tell of mass migrations when hundreds would suddenly move to another farm.
Rats cant run fast out in the open you can catch them, but alaong a wall they can run. They can’t actually run too fast over a distance and if you were lucky one would break cover near you. It was very satisfying to head it off with a good boot and watch it arc through the air before sliding down the wall.
In the summer time, they are out there in the enviroment & thrive in ditches, hedges, love grass seeds, wild fruit, carrion & cereals even root crops. I certainly find burrows & signs of rats way out in the fields in the depths of winter.They go a long way. I found a dead one in a field half mile away. Old farmers tell of mass migrations when hundreds would suddenly move to another farm.
Rats cant run fast out in the open you can catch them, but alaong a wall they can run
Swarms of rats would occur when a farm had the threshing team in, when the straw ricks were were gone, survivors would move on to a fresh source of food and shelter. Rising flood waters would have the same effect.They go a long way. I found a dead one in a field half mile away. Old farmers tell of mass migrations when hundreds would suddenly move to another farm.
We need a disgusted emorgi for stories like that urg.Read the book about Sidney Kidman, in Aus back in the late 1800s.
He was camping out on a cattle drive during the time of a rat plague; put his saddle and other tack up on a tree overnight and woke up next day to find only the metalwork remaining, the rats had eaten the rest.
Herself wanted a rescue terrier, but we don't fit their requirements!!! Need a fully enclosed garden for starters, so we would have to get my daughter to say she was having one... The one centre didn't like the idea of them being a "working" terrier either....get another, you'll not regret another terrier about, 1 JR, 15 now showing his age abit, new one now 2, red hot on rats, and pheasants
I had a job on a similarly infested dairy farm , some time ago. The first time I turned up to do the morning milking, one Winter's day, I had to go in the cowshed in the dark, to put the lights on and a rat ran up the inside of my trouser leg . That makes you dance, I can tell you. The rat flew out as I kicked for England and I heard it hit the wall. I never made the mistake again of turning up in workboots.I walked into a shed at night on that rat instead pig fam and turned the lights on.
Swear on my grandkids lives there were two thousand rats in there and half of them ran towards me.
Tucked my trousers into my socks before I went in the next shed!
I used to be scared of rats but there were so many there that they don’t bother me any more, what I mean is I hate rats but don’t run away from them.
As a kid my job in spring after the grain shed was emptied was to be sent down the dryer ducts that ran the length of the shed.
I was the smallest person and only one who could fit.
I would be armed with a torch, brush and bucket plus a cricket bat.
Could always guarantee a bunch of rats piled up at the end of the tunnel. Only way for them to get out was past/over me.
Bloody hate rats!!
Definitely not, as it would double round and bite you. They can be vicious if provoked. You would have been better moving the bales and whacking it with stick. Failing that borrow a Jack Russell terrier!Nothing to do with poltics or unfaithful partners.
I found a trio of dead rats in the barn, half grown & then loading some small bales, I saw another one same size but very much alive. It dived between two bales but its tail was visible, should I have grabbed it.