How do you end up with rats under your chicken coop? Are there rat families out there shopping around for a new and better place to live? Do they travel around as a family until they find just the right spot and then move in? Or do they have a scout that checks out new places and then reports back to the family? Or maybe they have rat, real estate agents?
And the only reason I ask this is because I would like to know how long it will take for the next batch to show up. I say the next batch cause I'm pretty sure I effectively murdered all of the current inhabitants today. Of course I have no proof of that. All the rat corpses are still under the coop and it is too big to move easily.
Of course this has you wondering how I murdered them, and why I believe I did so effectively.
I packed all the outside walls with dirt. Closed off the holes they had chewed through the floors, and then I stuck a 2 1/2" pipe underneath, the other end of which I attached to the exhaust pipe of my tractor.
Oh, and then I started the tractor and let it run for 45 minutes!!
They should all have gone peacefully to rat heaven!
I spent the remainder of my day transplanting trees. Over the last few years we have participated in a planting program with the local conservation authority, and now are finding the places where I wish I hadn't planted. But not a problem as the world will never run out of places that needs more trees.
(computrainer 60 minutes)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."---Martin Luther
...and this is one of those I wish I had thought of...
"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath."---W.C. Fields
And the only reason I ask this is because I would like to know how long it will take for the next batch to show up. I say the next batch cause I'm pretty sure I effectively murdered all of the current inhabitants today. Of course I have no proof of that. All the rat corpses are still under the coop and it is too big to move easily.
Of course this has you wondering how I murdered them, and why I believe I did so effectively.
I packed all the outside walls with dirt. Closed off the holes they had chewed through the floors, and then I stuck a 2 1/2" pipe underneath, the other end of which I attached to the exhaust pipe of my tractor.
Oh, and then I started the tractor and let it run for 45 minutes!!
They should all have gone peacefully to rat heaven!
I spent the remainder of my day transplanting trees. Over the last few years we have participated in a planting program with the local conservation authority, and now are finding the places where I wish I hadn't planted. But not a problem as the world will never run out of places that needs more trees.
(computrainer 60 minutes)
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."---Martin Luther
...and this is one of those I wish I had thought of...
"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath."---W.C. Fields
...and this totally unrelated one that I think is profound...
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."---Will Durant
Love
Peter
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