we found that any one type of trap was only effective for a little while before needing to switch to a different type.
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Matt McSpadden wrote:Rodent problems are difficult. I'm not an expert, but I have dealt with and read a lot about mice and rats.
As has already been suggested, reduce the amount of food given. I understand the concern that it may make the rats more desperate, and you may need to kill some off while reducing the food. If there is any food left on the ground after say the first half hour... then you are probably feeding your birds too much.
Being pregnant, this might be difficult, but I would highly suggest moving your coop more frequently. Is there a family member or neighbor who might be able to help? It would have to be a very large area or a small number of chickens in order for you to leave it for a month and not cause damage to that plot of ground. By moving it more often it would make the rats have to work harder and make them more vulnerable to predators.
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attract two different birds that eat rodents
- describe the species and how you’re attracting them
- probably building housing
- perches for raptors
- Plants that discourage rodents
- pulse hogs/chickens/turkeys/etc. through an area with too many rodents
- put out more food for rodents (thus attracting predators)
- Improve food/grain storage
- Create an exposed area around your garden that they won’t cross for fear of getting grabbed
- Make an actual moat
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John C Daley wrote:You often need to change the method of trapping etc because the rats work things out.
I have a friend who decided to shoot them as they walked along a fence, he set up the clothes line with some sheets,
and aimed at the fence through a gap in the sheets.
To get a good target he set an obstacle in place and the rats leaned over to get past.
He shot them, but after a while, they worked that out, so he turned the clothes line a bit and made a different obstacle,
until they worked hat out!!
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Olga Booker wrote:
Mice and rats can easily be delt with (well, relatively speaking). but the critters that live in your roof and eat the insulation is another ball game all together. I see that you live in the Italian Alps and it is not very far from France. I can then safely say that you have what the French call a loir, the English call a glis glis:
http://www.planetepassion.eu/MAMMALS-IN-FRANCE/Edible-or-Fatty-dormouse-France.html
Whatever you call it, it is an absolute menace. The danger is that they quite happily will chew on your electric wires (most website will tell you that they don't, I can vouch that they do!) as if destroying your insulation and wood work was not bad enough! They are very difficult to get rid of, are very intelligent and don't get trapped very easily, or at least once or twice but then they learn very quickly. Poison is not good as your cats or dogs could die after eating them once dead,. If you use a humane trap you have to release them at least 25 km away or they'll find their way back - besides, by the time you've released one after a 50 km round trip, you'd have another family moved in! Most people in France call a vermin control person, I would probably do the same.
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