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Hello, I have found some barn rats this year and wondering if poison is the most effective method of controlling population. Also do cats eat the poison? I have never used poison.
Or is there an effective trapping method? I have only found three but one was small like a young one so are figuring there are more.
Re: Barn rats - rat poison?
[Re: gwm]
#6997051 09/22/2010:13 AM09/22/2010:13 AM
Traps and poison both help but you need to remove as many food sources as you can. If you can't do that you will never be rid of them. Like coyotes they just keep moving in.
If you can find somebody with a pair of rat dogs and ferrets you will see a show and kill a bunch of them.
this guy does it with mink but its the same thing
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Barn rats - rat poison?
[Re: gwm]
#6997058 09/22/2010:25 AM09/22/2010:25 AM
Secondary poisoning doesn’t happen often anymore if your using legal poison methods. You would have to have a single animal eating every dead rat they find for multiple days And it still would likely not kill them.
Last edited by NE Wildlife; 09/22/2010:32 AM.
Re: Barn rats - rat poison?
[Re: gwm]
#6997060 09/22/2010:30 AM09/22/2010:30 AM
I poison if they will eat it ,usually have to juggle poisons to keep killing . Also poison has to be fastened down or they will sometimes store it ,I usually drill a hole in the block of poison and nail it to a 2X4 .
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Re: Barn rats - rat poison?
[Re: gwm]
#6997066 09/22/2010:39 AM09/22/2010:39 AM
I have a body grip rat set up that is killer. It can be made cat proof as well. Kittens might be able to get in but not adult cats. I’ll get a pick tomorrow.
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Re: Barn rats - rat poison?
[Re: gwm]
#6998041 09/23/2001:40 PM09/23/2001:40 PM
Down where I am the rattle snakes will move in and thin out the rats for you. I wish I could say it is a good thing to have around a feed yard or sale barn but it isn't.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
Re: Barn rats - rat poison?
[Re: gwm]
#6998055 09/23/2001:56 PM09/23/2001:56 PM