The Poultry Keeper

mojo · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:18 am Post subject: damn rats

sudden influx of rats...lost one pullet last night.........baited traps and now hoping for the best..............................mojo

NannyP · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

You poor thing. Sorry about your pullet, hope you catch the rats before I visit Shocked

I've PM'd you Wink

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

Sorry to hear about your bird mojo
Hope you get them all for it Crying or Very sad

Fangs · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject:

Really sorry about your pullet Mojo. A rat took my lovely litle Jokan frizzie poland boy. Took him in a wall, and had toget my terrior Max to pull my baby out. The trap worked though, and we also put poision down. hope u get it/them soon,m they are horrid thnigs

Fangs

Deb_Moderator · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 3661

Sorry Mojo. Sad

Get 'em quickly.

summayah · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton

sorry to hear about that mojo, hope you manage to get them before they get any more of your girls

leebarton · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 365 Location: Elgin, NE Scotland

Really sorry to hear your news. I hope it all gets sorted out quickly.

Knobby · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

Thats a shame Mojo.....!! Sad

jaydee67 · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject:

Go get 'em mojo! ((((hugs))))

Lisa · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:37 am Post subject:

Poor pullet Sad

Nasty rats - get 'em all Mojo & show no mercy Evil or Very Mad

sasha.p · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 502 Location: gwent

omg mojo have they killed a chicken?I'm so sorry if they did.i didn't know rats would do that we had rats move into our garden a while back as a bloke who kept chickens close by moved and they decided to move over to us as i was feeding wild birds so we had to get rid of them we tried everything normal rat traps then one morning we found our resident robin caught in one and i was so upset it must of watched my husband bait the trap and followed him into our shed then eventually i saw these glue traps on e -bay and we got every single one of them and several mice too not had any problems since.good luck with getting them Shocked

mojo · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:03 pm Post subject: hi

can you post deatils of glue traps not seen them here so full info appreciated..........mojo Cool

summayah · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton

I as thinking the same thing mojo, I've never heard of those and it's always nice to have a few methods of defence against ratty

mojo · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: hi

some success Tricia(mrs mojo) put down old fashion snap traps and caught 4 of the pesky rodents so is going to keep setting them every nite.........mojo Cool

sasha.p · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 502 Location: gwent

hiya sorry only just been back on here i will take a look on e-bay i guess you will have to use the international search.they worked great they are like a super strong glue and it smells of peanuts which they love and get attracted to it and well they get stuck and cant get off,its not a nice way for them to die but it does catch them and when we used ours and they came out in the night by the morning they were dead from exhaustion but we could hear them in the night screaming when they got caught on them outside.but keep them away from where other animals could get caught like wild birds try and place them on a known run we made a hole in our shed floor and encouraged them in using peanuts and then they got caught on the traps which meant no other animals could get caught other than mice.right just looked on e-bay there's loads on there if you type in the search rat glue traps try looking under the items available worldwide and it should bring them up also when we went to countrywide the other day they sold them not sure if there are any of them near you?