Wormery and rats

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Ema

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Wormery and rats
« on: November 21, 2020, 08:02 »
We don’t currently compost any of our kitchen waste to stop rats visiting the compost bins. However we have still had a visitor and I’ve had to ask neighbours to take down bird feeders.

We have a fancy peddle chicken feeder but even put that away at night to discourage rats.

I’m annoyed at giving the council our veg scraps and am thinking of getting a wormery that could live in our stone shed. I’m concerned that the rats might try to chew in, has anyone had this problem?

There was a steel model but it’s now out of stock everywhere

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Re: Wormery and rats
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2020, 20:15 »
If you get some weld mesh, you can put this under and a compost bin, this would stop rats but not mice.
Rats will chew through plastic and wood, so store everything in metal bins.
Runs should be L shaped under the soil by at least a spade depth and width to keep rats out.
You could put rat traps down, making sure that other creatures are safe from this.
Homebase sells weld mesh at a good price.

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Ema

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Re: Wormery and rats
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2021, 21:27 »
Thanks Grinling

Unfortunate my neighbour has put her compost bins behind ours with a rat sized highway between. We don’t compost food waste at the moment and let the council collect it but I’ve notice our neighbour does :(

The metal wormerys are quite small 30lt. The plastic ones will get nibbled. So I’m thinking of making my own in a metal galvanised bin.... I’ll let you know how I get on.
« Last Edit: January 28, 2021, 21:28 by Ema »



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