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I am having rat problems! They are eating my veggies and fruit from fruit trees and climbing onto my balcony and pooping everywhere. I did not have this problem before I got my beautiful hens. I tried poison, but am nervous about it and it doesn't seem to work, and they avoided my rat trap. I don't store hen food outside, so what's a girl to do? I am contemplating getting rid of my beautiful hens!

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If you go to an agricultural feed store (you'll find them in Ladner, Delta, Cloverdale and Pitt Meadows), you can buy (like Hawk rodent control bait chunks) poison and a (Tomcat) bait trap and that will address your vermin problem. Or you can get a cat.

Thanks.

It's true. Once we got a cat the rats went away...

I'm allergic to cats :(

I've gone and gotten a bunch of rat traps including the black ones you mentioned. It's war!!!

Hire Farley Mowatt!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMBk3js7e0

Ha ha ha

I have toxic industrial rat glue from Asia, not the Realkill from Home Depot, those are weak-sauce. If you don't mind polluting the Delta landfill, I am willing to barter for fresh eggs.

My very old wood shingled house has always had rats. I had a rat problem in my chicken coop but solved it with a mesh floor. Vancouver is loaded with rats. A rat can get through a hole the size of a quarter. Sheet metal cones (like dogs have on their heads after they go to the vet) around your fruit tree trunks can help. Compost and feed containers with very tight lids help. I just tore out my basement ceiling and found lots of rat poo and many untouched packages of rat poison. I have a humane rat trap with a blob of peanut better in it-6 months, no action. I have 2 cats who occasionally catch a rat, but are not getting rid of the problem. My next steps are to spend the summer looking for tiny openings where the house meets the foundation and where pipes go in and out and stuff them with steel wool and caulk. I am going to try again with the poison-this time mixing it with peanut butter and putting it into 2L pop bottles with the neck cut off to give an 1.5" opening (don't want the cats getting into it.) Also going to caulk tightly around the pipes going into the wall under my kitchen sink. I tried sticky traps and accidentally caught one of the cats. Anyway-had rats before chickens. Pretty sure getting rid of your chickens won't get rid of your rats. Good luck

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