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Nuisance Trapping.
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Moved on to a new species. We've had our barn for 25+ years and have never had rats until this winter. I loaded up on poison and traps today while I wait to acquire a barn cat or two. I bought two of these big traps for shits and giggles. Only took 30 minutes for it to do it's thing. That's a XXL glove for reference.
#1 in the books.
#1 in the books.
Holy shit, no thank u. Mice r bad enough, i thought that was for NYC and such
My neighbor has horses. I asked him if he's had them and he said it's happened on occasion over the years. I have no idea how 2.5 decades go by with no sign of them, and then they show up. It's amazing how much dirt they tear tunneling their way through/around stuff. Hard packed clay and they tunneled right through it.
Dumb fuggers ate a solid 4 cups worth of the Ramik green poison chunks last night, so I'm super impressed by that. You can see the green in this one's 
on the trap, so we should get a good kill from it. I loaded all the same tunnels up again for Round 2.
The old bucket lid trap was also successful in the chicken coop. Plenty more to go, but a solid start.
on the trap, so we should get a good kill from it. I loaded all the same tunnels up again for Round 2. The old bucket lid trap was also successful in the chicken coop. Plenty more to go, but a solid start.
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@bowhunter1023. You're on the right track with a cat. This one is 16.5 lbs of hell on critters, he caught this rat tonight out in the yard, he also catches squirrels and somehow manages to get moles. A good outdoor cat is worth their feed to keep around.
Only problem is not all cats are created equal. Or maybe I’m just unlucky. I’ve had one that was a bad ass and absolute hell on critters, like yours. Long story… but I no longer have him. So I picked up another one… a mean looking black tom cat… and he’s not worth the collar that won’t stay on his neck. Poor bastard doesn’t have a killer instinct is his body. Just begs for cat food constantly. And now I can’t get rid of him. Lol
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That happens, gotta go through a couple sometimes. Luckily they're usually free from the humain society or marketplace. Try not feeding him for a week, see if he hunts to eat. If that doesn't work, sorry kids he ran off, we'll get another one.
So you bought a black cat thinking he would earn his keep, now he doesn't and you're surprised? Lol WTF
This stuff has proved to be worth the money. I've been putting it out for a week and walked into the barn today to carnage. Found 3 stone dead and 3 actively dying. There was another who is half dead, but good enough to scurry off. I ended the other 3 for a tota confirmed kill of 6. The first $20 bag is gone, but I'll be keeping some in stock.
Appreciate the recommendation, I’m also dealing with rats for the first time around, in and under my chicken coop. I walked in my coop the other night to close them up and one climbed up the door and another jumped from my nesting boxes to the floor, thing must have been a monster because I’de swear the big bastard shook the floor when he landed. They are also digging massive tunnel systems from my goat pen to the coop. They gota go!
Their ability to tunnel is unreal. You couldn't get harder compacted clay than our barn is built on, and they still found a way to tunnel through it.