rat problem

[Billhook]

Strange how people love to" hug " certain animals, such as Badgers, rabbits and squirrels but hardly anybody cares how you kill a rat.

 

I had a problem in the farm grain store where I stored the tractors. Rats had made a nest in the cabs and eaten the wiring.

 

I decided to buy an electric fencer unit and i rigged it up to the tractors, looping a wire between them and hoping that there was enough insulation in the tyres.

 

Where should I connect the earth? the grain store has a metal grid grain pit and a whole series of metal elevators, ducts and metal grids over the suspended grain floor. There are a thousand possible nooks and crannies to hang out in.

 

I decided to earth it to the grain pit grid, turned it on and the most amazing thing happened.

There was a whole load of squealing from all over the store followed by a mass exodus of rats. It seems as though the whole floor was electrified, maybe through the steel strengthening in the concrete.

 

One rat jumped out of a tractor and squealed every time it touched the floor and made its exit after a series of jumps!.

 

I only received a slight tingle touching the tractor (with rubber boots on)so rats must be highly sensitive to electricity, especially since they have four bare feet on the ground.

I have not had a problem since.

 

I bought another unit to protect six bags of seed corn in a metal Ivor Williams trailer. In the past a mouse or rat had usually found its way in to make a hole in the bags but not any more.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I had the same in my containers where the mice were getting in and out of a little hole, once I electrified the container they were ok till they either exited or entered the container where they made a bridge to earth. It solved the problem.

One thing you could try is securing the food source in an ibc or some other seal able container. Remove the food source, you remove the rats it's that simple. Rats will breed according to the food source. The more available the more rats will breed. They will breed faster than you can deal with them.

I know a company that spent thousands of pounds a year on rentokil. They were tipping corn dust in a skip, I advised them to dispose of it another way and robbed rentokil of a decent income

[Breezeblock]

checked the trap this morning nothing in it :thumbdown:

[mickdundee]

I put slaymore down. So long as dogs and chickens can't get at the grain I've never had a problem of anything eating the dead rats. And my dog is a working lurcher. My wife even left a rat in the run all day yesterday waiting for me to get home. Hens never touched it. I used to use traps and shoot them at night but only poison seems to wipe everything out.

[spudulike]

I checked my holes tonight:blushing: and each one had the poison in them from the previous night. I think I may have done the not so little blighters in now:thumbup:

[Breezeblock]

I checked my holes tonight:blushing: and each one had the poison in them from the previous night. I think I may have done the not so little blighters in now:thumbup:

 

that sounds bad rephrase it

[Jesse]

I checked my holes tonight:blushing: and each one had the poison in them from the previous night. I think I may have done the not so little blighters in now:thumbup:

 

Id say you've done them in, best way,200g straight down loose grain in the hole , did you know ....................... fact coming up .....Rats are the second most successful mammal on the planet after humans , did you like that

[spudulike]

that sounds bad rephrase it

 

I know, good for a laugh though:thumbup:

[Stock]

Any update..............

[spudulike]

Yes, just checked my holes again and the poison is still there so my infestation has been culled IMO:thumbup: