Rats and reseeds.

[ajcc]

Undersown spring barley cut today for baling tomorrow, the field had overwinter cattle grazing kale until end of February.

Glad to free up a bit more grazing as that hot spell has burnt much of my summer graze. Be nice to have a week of good rain now to freshen the soil and deter the tourists.
Going to have to bite bullet and do that online rat control qualification bit quick or talk nicely to a red tractor neighbour in an effort to secure a supply of ratty treats.
Good cost effective means of reseeding on dry light land. Intending to stack on top of grass silage bales in effort to confound ratty, though my neighbour considers I ought to stack away from grass silage and limit damage to wholecrop alone!!

 

[Recoil]

Try and stack at least on the third bale. I had a load last year and put on layer 3 and 4 and we had no problems and we've got lots of rats here.

 

[Dyffryn]

Put hydrated lime around the stack rats will never go in. Top it up every month jobs a Goodn!

 

[GTB]

Also found it helped to stack them away from the yard and to space the bottom layer out as much as possible so that cats or foxes can access the gaps. They will take care of the rats if they can get to them.

 

[Lofty1984]

Don't they say stack them on a layer of fairly deep sand old ratty can't burow through sand

 

[holywell farmer]

Don't they say stack them on a layer of fairly deep sand old ratty can't burow through sand

Maybe stack and put cover and netting to keep Vermin away ?

 

[Bury the Trash]

i was gonna say, what about trying the electric ' fence' around the outside, like someone on here, put around their combine..... in combination with sand if not on concrete i guess.....




.........chap seems to have deserted his thread........

 

[Philip Watkins]

Maybe stack and put cover and netting to keep Vermin away ?

Cover or net won't stop ratty.

 

[ajcc]

Nobody appears to have a foolproof solution. I know I shall most likely get problems but the bales are 3 high, the bottom is grass silage. Stack is edge of a field close to where they will be fed. Stack is on turf just relying on grass bales and nesorexa sachets throughout stack.....will probably feed whole crop sooner rather than later if start to see extensive damage.

 

[Bury the Trash]

what about putting the bait just outside the stack ,covered of course.

i face the same problem ,now considering doing some wheat..