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rockwind1

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Central Arizona. Just north of Prescot. I ve been keeping my old backhoe and my old Ford 850 in the open air horse barn. I ve been noticing a lot more rat poop up high on the tractors, where my fEet go. Anyone else have this problem? Best solution? I actually have a pest control company that has been supposedly trying to get the kill the rats but They don t seem to be doing a very good job. I m sort of worried the rats are gonna start chewing on the wires

This post was edited by rockwind1 on 08/16/2022 at 10:04 pm.
 
My brother put some kind of electric gizmo in his shop to keep them out.
I must be a rat also, cause it sho bothered me to hear it.
 
Get rid of the food source and clean up around things no trash and no long grass to hide in from building to building. Then bait. I use a bait with the hole in the cube and wire so they can't just take off with it. Works good. It must have also worked on the coons and other varmints as they all seemed to disappear for awhile now some are back again. Hard to keep rid of them with any grain around.
 
Cats and being tidy. If you store hay it will be hard to eliminate them. I wouldnt use poison. If something eats a rat/mouse thats eaten the poison then it can be inadvertantly impacted.
 
When you have animals you will most likely have rats.
Rats eat the same food.

Move the tractor to a safer location..

Half fill a 5 gallon bucket with water. You might find rats
swimming in the water.

Friends horses eat the spark plug wires off his tractor..

I have storage sheds where no animal can get inside, I use mice
poison and next to the poison a container of antifreeze for them
to drink.
 
Getting rid of food supplies for the vermin will help but you have to keep a constant supply of poison bait stations maintained year round here to be rat free. I got a little careless a few years ago and had a rat infestation. I was trapping them pretty steady with the old Victor gopher and weasel traps. Finally got back to rat free status. I figure the money I spend on the poison blocks is well spent insurance to stay rat free. Keeps the mice population way down too. Cats help but they won't control rats.
 
Tom Kat in the tub at the farm store. Get the 1x1x2 bricks with the holes in them to string on a piece of wire. Feed free choice till
they quit disappearing. Guaranteed results I guarantee it!
 
I read somewhere recently that equal parts of muffin mix and baking soda for rodents. The muffin mix is the bait, soda is the poison.
Rodents, they claimed can't burp or fart, so the soda does its thing. Safe for cats and dogs.
 

I do have some old hay around. I do keep the tractors in the horse barn because I don t have horses there right now.

I don t have any animals there right now, but I can tell you I don t like cats because the cats are gonna kill all my songbirds, they re gonna kill all my lizards, and they re gonna kill my quail timer and I like all those animals because they eat bugs. I do have a nice big gopher snake hanging around, I wonder how many rats a snake will eat
 
(quoted from post at 10:55:44 08/15/22) Tom Kat in the tub at the farm store. Get the 1x1x2 bricks with the holes in them to string on a piece of wire. Feed free choice till
they quit disappearing. Guaranteed results I guarantee it!
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That is what I use.
But I run them over a hand held cheese grater and turn them into particles like course raw sugar.
Then mix into a paste with cheapo peanut butter.
Then smear it inside the middle of 3 or 4 inch pvc drain pipe pieces.

Place at base of walls.
Only mice and rats and squirrels can get to it.
 
Wrong, over the years we had three healthy cats disappear and days later I would find them in a hidden
corner somewhere and my theory is they ate poisoned rats. Especially since when we lost the last one, I
found half an eaten rat a few days later, as well as the bait I thought was secured in a metal cabinet, all
gone. So poison and pets dont mix.
 
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