My neighour has chickens and it attracts a ton of rats. I live in hellhole Suburbia in Belgium. What's the best strat to get rid of them? So far Ive trapped 5 in 5 weeks, but are there better options than traps?
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My neighour has chickens and it attracts a ton of rats. I live in hellhole Suburbia in Belgium. What's the best strat to get rid of them? So far Ive trapped 5 in 5 weeks, but are there better options than traps?
Tell your neighbor to stop overfeeding his chickens.
I already did and he says like a true boomer that it's not his problem.
Throw in rat in his window.
throw the dead rats on to his property
Your yard appears to be a fricking mess too, I wouldn't blame the neighbors entirely. Tidy all your shit up, cut your grass right back so there is nowhere for them to hide and they'll stay tf away from your yard.
Does your country allow you to use rat poison?
Yeah but they don't touch it
That's warfarin infused wheat
Have you handled the packet with bare hands? I'd practice a few incisions smaller than the granules. Glue traps, that is an amount of rat glue applied to a piece of cardboard positioned in spots of forced passage are effective, at least on smaller rodents.
You might think of contacting the sanitary department of your city, he's creating a health hazard.
Do check if he's allowed to do what he does also. Consider getting a cat, at least temporarily, though it will kill any critter indiscriminately. Do not get a city pet.
Also once a rat has opened one the grains will go everywhere. I'd just use glue traps for inhabited interiors.
Glue traps are fricked up man
Just get a ratting dog like a terrier, more effective than cats whose primary deterrence is their smell and presence rather than any actual rat killing ability
You can easily and humanely drown the animal after you trapped it if you're a pansy.
>drown
>humanely
..the frick?
morons that haven't seen a farm in their lives detected. Frick outta a serious threads bubbas.
>torturing animals is normal as long as you live on a farm
Amish detected. Does your bishop know you're shitposting on here, Stoltzfus?
Just say drown. You can't drown them humanely because it's an oxymoron. But you can drown them, because they are fricking rats.
>glue traps are fricked up
>but drowning something that's been stuck to glue makes it humane
I get the feeling you try to find reasons to torture animals
Gotta get rid of them somehow. They're fast when they wanna be and have disease. I trapped a family of 6 mice in my attic and rather than risk letting them out I just tossed the traps in a large bucket of water and walked away. Went back about 3 minutes later and it was all done.
It makes you feel bad to do it, but sometimes you have to do unpleasant things.
Why wouldn't you just bash their heads in? I had to kill a rat in a glue trap last year and all it took was one swift hit to the head with a crescent wrench (it was the closest heavy object I saw). I would assume it was a much easier death than drowning. Little homie barely saw it coming.
Because anons want to cause unnecessary suffering under the guise of practicality. See
The one true God gave us dominion over this land. Im drowning rats that decide to be where the shouldnt
So if you trespass on my land I get to drown you, I can dig it
you are not a god, God said that you need to treat his creations well, not torture them you pathetic homosexual
>terriers
This is the real solution. I currently have three rat terriers, and have had a total of 8 throughout my life.
The breed wasn’t recognized by the AKC until maybe 2010, while the UKC recognized them earlier, I think around 2000, even though it’s an American dog. Prior to that it was more of a type than a unique breed. But before industrialized farming it was the most common dog in the US. Everyone had a few dogs, or someone in the community would have several specifically for rodent infestations.
When you look up “rat terrier” on the ALC website, the image they use is acktchually one of my dogs sires (no dox please). His dam as well as the dam and sire of another dog are all platinum grand champions, and have a slew of other titles in conformation, agility, obedience, and whatever else.
I’ve taken my dogs along with their parents (one of which has won Best in Breed at the big Eukenaba AKC National Championship) to go rafting at a hobby farm. It’s a lot of fun for the dogs and owners, and not so much for the rats. It’s pretty cool how quickly they pick up on what to do, ie kill. Pic isn’t mine but you get the idea. You turn over old dirty bay and watch your dogs go ape shit chasing, biting, and shaking rats.
tl;dr I love rat terrier
>nice blog post
Thanks!
Good post anon. I remember being a 10 year old kid in the late 2000s and trying to use the internet to figure out what the mystery breed shelter dog my family had was, and not wanting to accept the consensus that any small erect eared dog = chihuahua. Given the agricultural history of the region and mystery origin, maybe I was right all along
RIP Peanut you were a bro
Yeah, people sometimes think my little rattie is a huge Chihuahua. A few have assumed he’s some kind of miniature pincher. He’s 13lbs, which is teeny tiny for the breed, and the smallest I’ve had. Excellent ratter. My big boy is 22, and they have the same mom/dam.
>cats whose primary deterrence is their smell and presence rather than any actual rat killing ability
holy shit you are actually moronic
>Consider getting a cat
Cats don't do anything. A small terrier would be 100 times more effective
You might try stations filled with rodenticide blocks with vitamin d3 as the active ingredient because 1). Rats like to chew on the waxy blocks because it feels nice on their incisors and 2). A lot of Norway rats have become resistant to warfarin. You might also try using a product called Detour which looks like silicon caulking but is actually a capsaicin gel. Just lay a bead of it along a surface where you know the rats travel. It’s just a repellent but it makes them feel like they’re on fire when they touch it. Your situation might be different because of the close proximity to your neighbor but usually rats respond to constant stress by completely leaving the area.
My grandpa on the farm used those all his life but I've never seen them left in a plastic bag before. Not sure if it has anything to do with its efficiency though, I've heard plenty of cityslickers say they're useless now.
>vitamin d3
Would it work on dogs too (Pitbulls) or are their body-mass too high to be worth it? Would antifreeze be a better option?
>hamza has entered the chat
Good luck OP.
Gay RP based off shitty Skyfall story.
do you want like, nuclear option strat? because mix up some seed or food with antifreeze and leave it out. its basically chemical warfare at that point though so youre gonna kill anything that tries to eat it. but if you want to take care of your neighbors chickens too...
do you not have cats in belgium?
Cats fricking suck at stopping rats. They’ll catch maybe one if they feel like then play with its corpse for a few minutes, get bored, and find someplace to take a nap.
Meanwhile a dog will keep until he’s too exhausted to continue or until there are no more rats. Pic: let’s see a cat do that (~900 rats from a farm in England, taken with a pack of dogs).
This, good dogs inherently hate rats and want to eradicate them at all costs. Just the smell will set a good dog into a frenzy of trying to find any last rat. They also can sense your feelings about any pest and will behave accordingly.
I have some but they are pussy
5 in 5 weeks is bugger all. 5 in a day is a problem. Get a springer spaniel.
>springer spaniel
>hunting dog
>bred specifically to flush out game and not kill it
There are breeds better adapted for ratting.
Nah springers are amazing killers, they'll hold a small pig and kill a goat all on their own. If you get a decent sized one they can PrepHole in any terrain. Good all round dogs.
My springer was soft-mouthed so when she killed one of my family's chickens, it was a slow, slow process... she'd present it to my dad as victory but it'd still be alive, it'd run off, she'd catch it, no attempts at killing it whatsoever
My just wouldn't kill a chicken because it knows they're it's friend. Gotta get the right one I guess. It'd kill whatever it's trying to kill immediately though.
Always had luck with the meme dowell bucket trap. Never had much luck using peanus butter as bait though.
>So how do you get rats off an island?Hmm?
>My grandmother showed me.
Try this old trick anon: Mix 1⁄4 lb (110 g) of plaster of Paris and 1⁄4 lb (110 g) cornmeal in a large bowl.
If you don't have a way to weigh it, just make a 1 to 1 ratio by using a cup or mug. ...
If you don't have cornmeal, use flour in the same proportions instead.
The plaster of Paris hardens in the rats' stomach, eventually killing them.
its obvious
Rat catapults
Dont live in hellhole Europe would be my first response but unironically use those 5 gallon (18.9l) bucket traps. Fill it with water about 1/3 and let it do its job. Id suggest using peanut butter and the same feed the chickens eat for bait.
Best way of getting rid of the rats is getting rid of their source.
Had something similar in my country down the road some
>Guy has over 80 chickens in separate cages
>Rats start coming in
>Rats start multiplying
>Rats move to house next door that's a drug house
>Druggies there say Rats are size of small dogs
>Rats move to several trailers even further down road
>Residents try to contact county cause they keep spreading
>cops useless cause the now dubbed chicken man works for county
>Rats basically infesting this whole street
Last time I drove by the Chicken man was building an in ground pool. I wonder if he realizes he built a huge water trap
Can you get those green poison cubes for mice? Find the holes where the rats live and drop some down the holes. the next day you should see a bunch of dead ones.
Put out food laced with baking soda. This has the benefit of not impacting other larger wildlife that might eat the bait or the dead rat.
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Find or make a small alley that only has one way in for the rats, put chicken food or something they like at the end of it to entice them to come for it. Then lay traps at the beginning so the only way to get to the food is over the traps.
I used to kill 3-4 a day doing this until I noticed there were no more holes being dug in my yard.
>Belgium
Release 20 or so rock pythons into the area. When wintertime rolls around the pythons simply freeze to death
Bonus points if they eat the chickens
3D print a firearm and use it to vaporize them