[mum of 3]

to give it a check over and i couldnt believe it,id left my potatoes out in the greenhouse side in egg trays to chit and the door must have blown open,all the potatoes have gone apart from one or two half eaten ones.its those damn mice again,well i hope they get belly ache

now where are those traps

[WG.]

  I'll rent you my cat for a while if you like.  

[Annie]

Commiserations,as we speak I am feeding yummy blue food to some rats in the log pile by the back door,.I chit indoors,luckily it is not too late to get more potatoes but annoying,how many did they get?

[WG.]

I am feeding yummy blue food to some rats

Try to bury/dispose of/burn any dead rats you find Annie since a friend's dog nearly died after eating a poisoned rat.

[slowcompost]

I've got rats as big as cats, by the  size of their runs, thank god I've not seen them!  They are in my compost bins. I've been feeding them blue stuff as well but they seem to just come back for more.
We need a good long spell of cold weather I think.

[frazzy]

hi ,make sure you only bait up once a week because the poison takes a while to kill  so i was told at our allotments.
we have a rat problem at our allotments due to an old man who keeps chickens on our site and leaves bread around for any thing that cares to eat it  unfortunatly as he has had his plots for ni on 40 years theres a huge prob or there was till last year the council listened at last and employed a pest controll officer to help he was baiting numerous boxes once a week and it has taken a while but fingers crossed its worked .
 

[WG.]

make sure you only bait up once a week

I agree but the reason is that the rats will hoard the poisoned food elsewhere rather than eat it.  They only eat it when you stop putting it out.

[denbo73]

Cold aint gonna hurt rats now days, they can tollarate most things including poison,.

If you manage to kill em just make sure you pick em up with a spade and burn em, they are full of disease.

[muntjac]

little misconception there folks ,rats eat thier fill then carry back surplus to the runs ,i have prebatied spots on the farm and then shot them with air rifles most if left undisturbed will do that then return to the home if a rat has competition at a food source it wil fight off another rat until its fed usually when they congregate they will snatch and run bit like me when im pinching ladies butts :twisted:

[mum of 3]

we lost about 30 in all,some charlottes and some rocket

[denbo73]

Thats why when putting bait dow for shooting rats you make sure its almost liquid so theye cant just * of wiv it, they need to lap it up THUS an easy shot, lights out....

[WG.]

little misconception there folks ,rats eat thier fill then carry back surplus to the runs

Thanks for that muntjac.  I'm pleased to say that my experience with rats has been quite limited.  blooming things really make my skin crawl.

[mercury]

Sounds a lot of spuds for mice to eat, mum of 3, you may have rats.

[muntjac]

when we sow maize for cover crops and he stands come up we get them digging runs into the ground among the stands . i go dogging in and usullay have a few sachets of poisin i just canes down the holes deep another thing is to wait ti end seson n then ferret down hole n stand back wi shotguns ,, almost as nice as bolting rabbits to gun

[jack russell]

ah munty

a top sport imo

bolting rabbits to the ferret or rats if it runs  its got 12g inits ass

gud stuff

cheers

jr