Ferrets Shi*te...Seriously

[Cornio 0]

The One has it right.

 

Rats are always going to be aplenty when there is sufficient food source. I'd say you should find the source - chicken feed, bins, food scraps on the compost, etc - and stop that first.

[Swampy 147]

The One has it right.

 

Rats are always going to be aplenty when there is sufficient food source. I'd say you should find the source - chicken feed, bins, food scraps on the compost, etc - and stop that first.

The shed in question is used as an office. Its quite warm and is about 4" of the ground. It is supprorted by four concrete bases and the rest is unmade ground. Its quite clean underneath, with evidence of some holes polssible entrances to a nest. Its well away from the house and bins. Whether they are using it as a stop off on route to somewhere else> there are droppings but no food remains. There is no evidence they have actually got inside.

Bloody clever things. I hope my neighbour can put up with the smell. Put some shi*e down Sunday evening but haven't spoken to him about it yet.

Keep you posted

 

TVM

 

Swampy

 

Nining for the first time today

[Nerys 0]

ferret shit does not keep rats away no, nor does skunk shit, coati shit, meerkat shit, or kinkajou shit..

 

have not tried lion yet, but can try cheetah if i really want to i guess...

 

if you want a "safe" bait, use Tomcat 2

 

http://www.ratbait.co.uk/index.asp?functio...p;productid=256

 

which only poisons the animal that eats it

 

the droppings passed by the dying animal, and the corpse of the animal itself, are not toxic once the bait has been digested by the initial victim..

 

hth

 

Nerys

[stubby 175]

if you want a "safe" bait, use Tomcat 2

 

 

For professional use only

[Nerys 0]

whilst it might say for professional use only, its sold to the GP in many of the outlets i go to, and many of the private livestock keepers i know use it. as do i.

 

N

 

edits to add:

 

out of interest, what makes a bait ok for professional use, and not ok for private? surely a bait which is non-toxic post inital digestion, is safer for the unwashed masses such as i, than a bait that kills on second digestion?

 

if i use tomcat, i know i will not kill any of my "domestic" stock by accident.

 

N

Edited March 17, 2009 by Nerys

[Swampy 147]

whilst it might say for professional use only, its sold to the GP in many of the outlets i go to, and many of the private livestock keepers i know use it. as do i.

 

N

 

edits to add:

 

out of interest, what makes a bait ok for professional use, and not ok for private? surely a bait which is non-toxic post inital digestion, is safer for the unwashed masses such as i, than a bait that kills on second digestion?

 

if i use tomcat, i know i will not kill any of my "domestic" stock by accident.

 

N

 

 

BOLLOX!

 

 

Please read the following link.

 

 

http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/content_ima...nt_Control1.pdf

 

Its logical really, it takes a few days to kill a rat that poison is in them all that time working. How can you not get secondary poisoning?

 

As much as I hate rats I will not advocate the use of poisons. There must be a natural solution. I don't like cats and neither do my dogs and cats also take birds.

The sport of shooting them is fine and fun but it isn't going to eliminate them completely if that is possible at all.

So I'm perservering with the natural method......

For the record, I'm placing the shi*e every evening now. No sign as yet and the ferts court has never been so clean!

 

 

Swampy

 

ning