rats

I went out to shoo my 5wo chicks into the coop tonight because they don't follow the hens up there. They just hunker together down in the darkness. So I'm out there in the run and I sense some movement. Up in the framing for the roof there are 3 small rats just waiting for their moment! I...

Hi all, Hoping to get a bid of advice. So around 5 hours ago, we found 4 baby orphan rats. I’m sure it was a nest of 6 but I think one of the dogs got two of them. Nearly positive that the mum was killed by the dog, (don’t know if it was the mum or the dad) but another one of the parents got...

I've had my coop for about a year-and-a-half now. We converted an old shed that was on the property before we bought it into of the coop. It has a wood floor in and was on cinder blocks originally but it's been so long that it's basically settled to the ground. Long story short we started seeing...

My Nocturnal Visitor tonight looking for Rats or CHICKEN NUGGETS just inches from my big hen house. What kind of Owl is it besides JUMBO? North Florida Species..

over the summer/fall, it became apparent there were rats stealing our chicken feed. We have had chickens for seven years and never had a problem with rats. We built a garden coop from plans we bought online, and covered the entire coop with hardware cloth, which we also buried 12" underground...

Hello Everyone, I'm having a predator problem but i cant pinpoint what is killing my baby chickens, I have a closed coop with wide openings I started putting 12 baby chickens inside and they are living with a 3 matured chickens and a lone turkey hen, (i will post a screenshot of it later). The...

Hi, im in urgent need of help, i had 4 cockatiels all well and happy and thought they might be happier in a more jungly feel so hung their cages side by side on my fence that grows many plants and has ivory on it so its a nice feature for them. Lately I've been seeing quite a few mice whenever i...

Hi, I moved here from California where I had a small flock of Bantams. Just found out Chickens are okay in Rio Rancho, NM yay! I have concerns about the heat, and cold. Trying to figure what kind of housing to build for new chickens. Do I need to buy heat/cold tolerant chickens? We get a...

so the other day I went out to the coop and someone had fed my chickens rat poison. I think I know who but I digress. Anyways, I’m guessing that between my 8 chicks, about 1 lethal dose was consumed. The chicks are 8 weeks old. It has been three days and they’re mostly fine except they’ve been...

My chicken got her WHOLE LEFT LEG EATEN BY A RAT! She is STILL breathing! I dont know what to do! Can she still live!? How can I help her? Her breed is a Plymouth Rock! I just got home from school and I saw her laying down eyes closed and stiff. She wasn't moving so I went to check. I flipped...

LONG POST / REALLY NEED HELP ON HOW TO COVER POSSIBLE BOTULISM IN DIRT And I can't spray it off (gravel) and I need it to be affordable but the best solution! Our coop is seperated into 4 roosting rooms with feed and water all with a connecting run plus I have a main feed room I keep my...

Hiya, I could really do with some advise. I have 2 female African Runner Ducks who have been sitting on 5 eggs for around 2 1/2 - 3 weeks . around 5pm today I found one of the eggs in the garden. It looks like a rat has began eating the shell but the duckling was still moving inside I emptied...

If you are squeamish or faint of heart, please do not scroll down and please leave this thread.. Last night rather 3 a.m.-ish, my trusty dog was woofing at our Pole barn garage where my teenager poultry are housed. We have been having a serious rodent problem so I kinda figured that was the...

Rain and Rats go Hand & Hand! They move indoors to seek shelter. Or Barn full of feed provides safe harbor and unlimited sources of nutrition for their colony and off spring. I refuse to provide a disease carrying rodent share my farm destroying everything from boxes to electrical wires and...

I have recently discovered rats in the hen house, which has me doing research on salmonella. If my chickens are infected with it, are the eggs infected? I have read that it's very rare for a chicken to pass it to the egg, but then I've also read that they can pass it on to their chicks. Do I...

OK so the title says a lot of it. We do not have wild rats here. They were raising feeder rats for a pet. They got rid of the pet and released the breeding pairs of RATS! I have seen one in my babies run! Tonight I went to close them up and it came out the pop door! They are young, just under 8...