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11/23/07, 02:04 AM
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Rat poison recommendations?
Basically wall dwellers, I want to zap them without a nasty odor remaining in the walls if they don't make it outside.
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11/23/07, 03:03 AM
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traps.
bait the traps and leave then unset so they get comfortable with eating in peace off of them for a week.
then set them, youll nail several in a few hours.
put melted hershy bars on the trigger they have th gnaw it off, making the trigger tripping easy.
the trick is lots of traps.
set out 6 or 12, and DONT set the bars, just leave them unset, with food on them.
when you see most of the food gone overnight, set the ALL at once.
it works, but if a few escape they will be trap shy and wont go after any traps, ever.
they are smart.
then you have to start sitting up with a pellet gun all night playing rat sniper.
roof rats and norway rats are different. Norway rats are BIG, roof rats are small. norway rats like meat, roof rats prefer grains.
as a general "rule of thumb", if you have norway rats, you probably dont have any mice, since they love eating pinky mice babies. and you wont have any roof rats, since the bigger norway ray will chas off the little roof rats.
how to tell what you have?
roof rats live in walls and roofs, in trees and the like.
norway rats dig burrows and live in sewers, drains and old chuck holes.
if you see holes dug around your property, you have norway rats.
raw meat is good bait for a norway rat, chocholate both kinds will go after. peanut butter is what roof rats like.
Ive read where narrow pipe can catch rats, if one end is closed and baited.
the young rats will crawl in for the bait and cant urn around or back up so once you see one go in, you grab the pipe and yo have a rat hostage.
so I read.... I havent tried that one yet. seems to me they could just back out but they say they cant walk backwards they have to turn around...
I dunno about that one. Might be true.
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11/23/07, 03:20 AM
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a paintroller and a bucket
ratglue, cardboard, and peanutbutter
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11/23/07, 07:36 AM
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I prefer traps or for sheer entertainment, a jack russel. Something my grammpa did was dip dime size pieces of natural sponge in lard or pan grease and leave them where the rats can find them. Usually a corncrib or outbuilding. I guess it swells up inside the rat and clogs them up. That's gotta hurt! 
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11/23/07, 08:02 AM
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ratglue?
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11/23/07, 08:09 AM
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ratglue?
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Ratglue come is a tube...it's clear and very sticky. All you have to do is to squeeze a circle of ratglue in a circle around a glob of peanut butter on a piece of cardboard, and wait a bit....before you know it, you have stuck rats.
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11/23/07, 11:37 AM
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11/23/07, 11:47 AM
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Is it possible to just locate and eliminate their food source?
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11/23/07, 04:47 PM
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Chickens to eat up the spilled grain, and a rat terrier to take the rest.
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11/23/07, 04:58 PM
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Is it possible to just locate and eliminate their food source?
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Rodents like mice and rats can eat nearly anything.
If you opt for a poison, use something that kills in a single dose. Wafarin is a multi dose poison and is not as good.
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11/25/07, 12:16 AM
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I am not sure if this works but, I have heard that setting out pans or piles of instant mashed potatoes would do the trick. They eat it and it causes swelling and kills them.
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11/25/07, 12:54 AM
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Mix Golden Maliran. With What ever for bait. If they shy from the 1st bait try another type mixed with the Maliran..
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11/25/07, 06:26 AM
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Golden Malrin mixed with food is also recommended for skunk control.
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We have used plain ole "decon" and "tom cat".......I think that is the name....just off the shelf stuff from Lowe's. Only one time did we have a bad smell. Then you do need to try to close up the hole where they are getting in.
We had to take cement, dig along the area they were digging under our foundation, cement it in the hole and then we put a piece of roof tin over the area too. A lot of trouble it was but better than hearing rats in the wall at night.
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We use Havoc, it's sold in the co-op. The rats love it and it dries them out from the inside out so that they don't smell.
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11/26/07, 11:18 AM
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Poison should not even be considered - even if only one does not make it out, it will REEK!! And if another animal were to eat those that get out, not good for them either (birds, cats, coyotes, or other carrion consumers).
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one third dry cement mix and two thirds corn meal, If that don't killum it'll slowum down enough something else can.
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12/13/07, 03:49 PM
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I read some where on the forums that peppermint oil extract is a repellent, ayep, it works.
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One Bite - kills them and dries them right up.
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12/13/07, 04:16 PM
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Ovaltine- the B vitamins cause them to hemorrhage internally and bleed to death. Pour the dry crystals somewhere outside- they will fimd it.
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