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How to kill baby rats in the barn?
Topic Started: May 29 2007, 01:40 PM (3,429 Views)
Sing Mia Song
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AstonMartin
May 31 2007, 01:16 PM
Mia, are you living in Norway????

Um, nooo... :P Norway rats, aka Rattus Norvegicus, aka brown rats, aka sewer rats, are your generic barn rat.


http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/rattnorv.htm
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Big Day
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UGH, timely topic...we have had a monsterous infestation of barn mice this year, and are having a helluva time getting rid of them. Now that I read this it makes me wonder, are we kidding ourselves by calling them mice? How do you guys know they are rats when they are babies? The whole thing is...disturbing. I am not a rodent fan, especially at feed time when there are five of them jumping out of a metal trash can when you go to scoop out some feed. Talk about a heart attack! I JUST WANT THEM DEAD...
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Awwwww....see, I totally sympathize with Fish Cheeks.....I LIKE rats. They are cute and friendly, in reality. "MY" rats had a very efficient system of eating spilled grain and keeping the joint cleaned up....that was until they ate through all my baling twine. :angry: Other than that we had an understanding. I don't mind them as long as they stay out of the way!

The baby rats very clearly look like baby rats. They are the size of full grown field mice but still hairless and grey in color. Hairless tails. Full grown they are big....larger than a kitten....maybe 5-6 inches long in the body plus 5-6 in the tail?

Mice...well they are tiny. Very tiny in comparison.

If you have to wonder....you probably have rats. <_<

PS if you're finding them IN the grain bin.....you've got a problem. Despite having rats we've never found them IN the grain...meaning you've got a hole in your can or someone is not closing it properly.
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Well there is a way . not sure how gross it would be as I have never actually seen the results. It is the 'recomended navy way to dispose of rodents, seaguls etc.'
Place an alka seltzer tab(s) in bucket. they eat them and their internals will basicaly 'explode' once it hits the moisture of the body.
You could put these around the barn as long as they are not accessable to the animals you want can not get to them.

the Navy does this on their ships and while they are 'underway' because a flock of seaguls will expose their location they regularly 'shoot' them into the air for the gulls to catch and eat..bird drops into water shortly there after.

Like I said havent a clue how gross this is but apparently it works well and quickly.
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ok... I've definitely just found myself the best diet plan... every time I feel the urge to eat a piece of chocolate, I'm going to reread these posts. Like watching a car wreck... stomach is rolling but I can't stop reading :spew:

I hate mice, hate rats and sure as heck hate the snakes that come slithering in to eat 'em for dinner.
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Jun 4 2007, 11:00 AM


I hate mice, hate rats and sure as heck hate the snakes that come slithering in to eat 'em for dinner.

Ahhhh, what I wouldn't give for a snake in my barn! :cloud9: I almost debated about walking down my road where this one snake likes to sunbathe...then I could have fed the baby rats to him! :one:
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I love rats (the pet kind) and snakes (non-poisonous) and every other creature that I've come across. I worked for this woman one time (I only lasted a month and it was hell) who would see a mouse in the barn, snatch it up quick as a cat by the tail and smash it's brains out on the cement floor of the barn. I should have known then that this woman was an alien from the planet Biotch! I was appalled! She just smiled and said, "It's just something that has to be done!!"

I really do not know what I would do. I would probably be like Phoebe on "Friends" and walk around with a box of baby rats all the time.
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i agree with the cats
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