*&%# rats
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Topic: *&%# rats
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Subject: *&%# rats
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2018 at 2:44pm
Not the rug rats but field rats. Since cold weather is just around the corner they making a home in a concrete block building at the farm. They are chewing up anything and everything and making living quarters.  I have an old refrigerator with a large storage drawer on the bottom and they have just about filled it up with chewed up rags, plastic bags, paper, old bath mat, and even new dryer sheets. Mice may not like dryer sheets but these rats do. And they have drug things like screw drivers, wire brushes, sand paper sheets, bolts, zip ties and other stuff in there. Cleaned it up yesterday and put out an ample amount of Tom Cat mouse bars and granular mouse bait, going to get some Tom Cat rat bars tomorrow which are supposed to work on the tree rats also. Guess in the spring I will have to rebuild one end of the building so I can seal it up and keep the  out. Thanks for letting me vent.------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
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Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2018 at 3:19pm
| D Con will work If they can get water. |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2018 at 4:00pm
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Pack Rats. We have been at war for years. Lately I haven't seen any. Probably regrouping. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2018 at 6:59pm
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We have feral cats and zero mice, a few less chipmunks and birds as well. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2018 at 12:41pm
Some of the pack rats get darn near as big as a cat. Had some good cats around mice and gophers were petty well under control,but they never did much to chase rats away. Maybe mice and gophers taste better  . 
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2018 at 2:13pm
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Never thought about these being pack rats, thought I was the only one around, but it makes sense the way they drag all sorts of stuff into the nest. Bought some Tom Cat rat bait today now I just have to get back to the farm to put it out before they destroy the place. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2018 at 2:19pm
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Go thru the rat & mice problem every fall, the cold air and the combine must chase them to the buildings. Spend the $$ for bait boxes and keep bait in them. Used to have to do it year round when feeding hogs. Now, I've got a bunch of bait boxes set near entrances to buildings. I refill them with bait when the corn starts to ripen. I clean up grain around bins when filling or emptying and No hay fed or stored within 1/4 mile of buildings. I'd get 2 brands (type of poison) of bait in case the sobs get resistant to a poison. Last year must've been a got year for rodents in western Iowa, neighbor and I ( me 3 of 4Lb pails) both went thru a lot of bait in Sept, Oct, Nov by Dec almost no activity. This fall didn't have to buy more bait still had some and only rebaited boxes 1 early Nov. since filled in early Sept. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2018 at 6:16pm
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2018 at 11:47pm
| I had a round livestock water tank sitting outside upside down, one day was gonna move it, and the whole undernieth was rooted up from rats. I put one of them smoke bombs that are sposed to kill them varmits under there and sure heard a lot of squealing going on, then everything was silent! a couple days later I picked that tank up and there was about 20 dead rats up under there! |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2018 at 4:57pm
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Where did you get the smoke bombs? I need a few. Went to the farm yesterday and put out 6 of the Tom Cat rat killer bait blocks in the building. This morning ALL of them were gone! Don't think they would have eaten all of them so they are probably storing them away somewhere. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2018 at 5:42pm
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2018 at 6:20pm
Hubert, Ya need to bolt or screw the bait down... I used a 5 gallon bucket that I cut a lil hole, in the side, and put it in the ole corn crib, when we stopped storing corn in it. Whittled the herd o rats down to about 50, never found a body, cause they eat their own... After about a year, the whole herd left, fer the neighbor's place, cause he had the closest supply of ear corn. Never liked that ole coot, anyway...
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Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2018 at 9:39pm
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Thanks for the link to the smoke bombs and for the tip on fastening the bait down. Maybe I can start thinning out the bastards when I go back next week. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2018 at 9:40pm
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Wonder if the smoke bombs will work for possums on the half shell? ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 6:18am
| My mother used Dcon bait for years and I told her the rats and mice were immune to it! After she passed away I took over baiting the barn and used Tom Cat bait. Next year there were dead mice and rats everywhere! Now I change to the blocks every other year to keep them interested. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2018 at 6:32am
| Buddy of mine takes used 55gal barrels, plastic and steel, no top, sets up a teeter totter trap with a peanut butter bait suspended over the hole. Puts around five gallon water in bottom with just a little dish soap to break surface tension so the critters fall in and drown, next one up as the teeter board resets. Got almost 20 the first week he had the first one up so set three more, empties them weekly in a nearby ditch. Vultures and other critters enjoy the free dining. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2021 at 10:38pm
| I got a call from an older farmer. He had a flat on the left front of his JD 4400 combine. He was wanting to combine oats. I went out, jacked up the combine, dam rats had chewed a hole in the bottom of his drive tire, about 3" across.. Oats were ready to run, he decided he didn't have 10 days to wait on a section repair. I put him on a new tire. Old gal used ta get them in the barn, feed bin had a cement floor in it, Just outside of the barn was a water tank that was heated. They apparently lived under it all winter. I cleaned out the darn tank one spring, tipped the tank over, the darn rats had even drug bars of rat poisen under there. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2021 at 11:40pm
| i use the "giant destroyer" that Chas posted. thanks Chas! |
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Date Posted: 28 Mar 2021 at 12:07am
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Date Posted: 28 Mar 2021 at 5:07am
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