Let's talk Chicken.. The pets, not the food..

[jeeper]

We left it baited for 3 days without setting traps. The rats loved it.
Tonight, they’ve been active for less than an hour, and we’ve got 3 rats and 1 mouse



The screws have turned out to be good, as all 3 of the rats struggled for a bit trying to get out.

 

[N-Smooth]

You murderer!




Good job

 

[jeeper]

Only 1 not tripped. The first rat tripped a second trap with its tail. But 6 for night 1

 

[glockman]

Mel says you need a rooster to protect your ladies.

 

[jeeper]

I got one more last night, and saw 1 other in the cameras. So far tonight, no rats at all. I know there were more than what I've killed. I don't know if I think they got smart and aren't coming around, or if removing the easy food from the chicken feeder made them move along.

 

[Hickey]

I got one more last night, and saw 1 other in the cameras. So far tonight, no rats at all. I know there were more than what I've killed. I don't know if I think they got smart and aren't coming around, or if removing the easy food from the chicken feeder made them move along.

Stay vigilant

 

[N-Smooth]

Stay vigilant

100%, they’re testing your fortitude.

 

[Herzog]

Picked up another handful for this spring. I pretty much just eat eggs and beef sausage every day, It's awesome.

 

[jeeper]

2 mega rats showed up last night. 1 light colored, 1 dark colored. The light one I knew was wise to the game from the beginning. It poked its head into my kill box once or twice and newer returned. The dark one was a surprise, as I haven’t seen a dark one that big yet.
They both went straight for the real chicken feed and didn’t even acknowledge the kill box.

They will have to become the first members of the .22 club.

 

[Kiel]

With the wise ones, I usually try weird foods, completely different then they've ever seen. Got a big ole boy on a gummy worm before

 

[jeeper]

@N-Smooth called up and was like ‘hey, be-rough!’ And it surprised me because I thought he was asking for sinful things.. but then I realized he meant B-rough, like opposite of smooth.
So he says ‘do you want some garbage?’ And I was like ‘nah, I’m cool.’

Then a couple weeks later I was like ‘hey, you still got that garbage?’ And he was like ‘yeah, and even more’ so I was like ‘I’ll come get it’

My chicken fencing didn’t hold up to the snow and wind over the winter,



So I used some of the wood tree posts from Nate to make it more secure,



Then I added another 2ft of fence above the 4ft because the stupid chicken were jumping over it before also.



I’ve still got a few things to do to get it buttoned up, but much better over all.

However, the rats are still here. Just the 2 huge rats. And they don’t come at a consistent time, so it’s hard to hunt them. They have just straight tunneled from the farmers field all the way into my coop. It’s like 20ft.

 

[Hickey]

Stay vigilant

 

[DAA]

Kill those rat bastards.

- DAA

 

[DAA]

Or, kill the chickens.

- DAA

 

[N-Smooth]

I was definitely asking for sinful things, duh! I’m glad my HOA’s tree posts served you well haha

 

[Cody]

Can't you just line the tunnel exit with traps or explosives or like swinging hammers or something? Tried a Laser attached to the alpha hen?

 

[Hickey]

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[mbryson]

 

[N-Smooth]

You should come borrow one of my gopher spring traps and see if it works. You put it in the tunnel and when they try and squeeze past it they get killt

 

[glockman]

You know what's easier than raising your fence? Take a pair of scissors to one wing per chuck. They can't fly over a 4 ft fence with a clipped wing. 90% of the time, it works every time.