Rats Rats Rats On the Farm

50HX

Any advice as to the best poison ( Is Storm the best) to put down for rats - over run with them in the last few days.

Have a dog already - no much good & can't get get hold of a ferret

Farmer Pudsey

Poison brand is immaterial. You should change your active ingredient after ever bucket anyway to prevent resistance build up.

Blocks threaded through 3'' pipe ( plastic bale centers are ideal) with tying wire. Wear a pair thin plastic gloves and another heavier pair over. Wash well after doing baits. If infestation is heavy you will go through a lot of poison but keep it out.

Kevhog1988

Where are you based? Cousin has a ferret and weve a few jack russels between us

gctest50

make a bucket trap - you wont have poisoned dead ones rotting here n there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0tDJpgrpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdlg48c78HQ

marizpan

Ferrets do a really great job if you could get hold of them.

We keep two just for this reason. Better than any poison. We let them lose for a couple of days a week. They do run around the sheds and down rat holes and come when called for feeding.
Haven't seen a rat since we got them.

retro d

Air Rifle is the job for them , no poison bait , just lead poison between the eyes I have all the gear , pm me if you need me

memorystick

Anyone any idea how to keep rats out of the place? I'll have the shed emptied out of hay, straw and almost all of timber cut and bagged. Going to powerwash everywhere. Loads of rat droppings. I've an owl box so I'm a little nervous about poison. Does iodine sprayed around the shed act as a repellent? Are there any longterm heavy odour sprays that can be applied? There's been a build up of stuff in the shed for the last few years.

CaboRoig

I've had most success with cats. I've three of them outside all the time. Before I got them I had fierce trouble with rats as I have a reasonably big poultry set up.

50HX

I invested in one of these, great job

Good nature....no posion

Boardnashea

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120306713#Comment_120306713

Give us a name of this thing? And a price?

50HX

Good nature

150- 180euro

https://www.diy-pest-control.co.uk/brodifacoum-rat-and-mouse-poison/

Excellent but my worry is wildlife eating dead carcasses.

There are loads of DIY methods on YouTube such as the barrel of water and another one tried and tested which is mixing baking soda with uncooked semolina or cornflour which results in a gas build up in the intestines which ruptures and kills the rat as they can neither belch nor pass gas.

SouthWesterly

Best option is a cat. We regularly see the results at the back door.

whisky_galore

Anything but poison. Really dated solution, harmful to wildlife through secondary poisoning. Anyone shouldn't use it in this day and age.

SupaCat95

Severn valley ratters!!! A team of psychotic Jack Russell terriers, if they can't help you nobody can!!! See them on the Youtube

If you can find their burrow holes, pour a cup of bleach in, or seal the holes and pour petrol into one and crack a match. Each suffocates them.