Cornbread rat cure

[Al Gerhart]

Fair enough, but the critters had access to other foods, they were wild creatures that knew how to forage and had their own territory they defended and knew where to go for something that didn't taste strange.

Rats on the other hand are not supported in large numbers by most territories, but must rely upon human sources of food. If you cooped up up those coons and squirrels they would do the same.

Coons are predators, slow reproductive cycle, large territory patrolled and protected from others for food. Squirrels are prey species but they have a ready source of food, nuts from trees, vegetation, even insects, eggs, and smaller mammals if they can catch them. Again a slow, once a year reproductive cycle when young, twice a year in the older years. They can be picky on food so it is not surprising they rejected the new taste. But, eventually, they would get used to the taste and like the rats, begin to prefer the taste.

Save that cornbread and hot sauce for the cooked rats folks. It is worthless as a rat deterrent.

 

[Birnenhof]

Lookit, it's never one rat.
That rat had a mommy and a daddy and they had other babies, rest assured they did.
Meanwhile these mfers are doing spring show and tell about procreation.

Expect to have 200 rats.
You are not going to throw down with that over corn bread and burping.
Here's what you do.

Grab a bale of straw or a wheelbarrow and a feed bin.
Put next to each other.
Fill the bin half way up with pop corn. Butter and salt flavor.
Let them get used to that.

Then...once a month you float the popcorn on water and you'll have 20 of them drowned every night for about 5 days.

And before any tries to pop off...drowning is much better than being poisoned, catching and releasing animals is illegal most anywhere and cruel to begin with. What is a rat even going to do after you "released it"?
Even getting got by a barn cat is crueler than just having to stop swimming from exhaustion.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I used poison when i had a rat infestation they hoarded all the poison in the basement and havent had a problem since

 

[The Moonshiner]

If we can get the government to make these SNAP and WIC eligible

 

[Tib]

Fair enough, but the critters had access to other foods, they were wild creatures that knew how to forage and had their own territory they defended and knew where to go for something that didn't taste strange.

Rats on the other hand are not supported in large numbers by most territories, but must rely upon human sources of food. If you cooped up up those coons and squirrels they would do the same.

Coons are predators, slow reproductive cycle, large territory patrolled and protected from others for food. Squirrels are prey species but they have a ready source of food, nuts from trees, vegetation, even insects, eggs, and smaller mammals if they can catch them. Again a slow, once a year reproductive cycle when young, twice a year in the older years. They can be picky on food so it is not surprising they rejected the new taste. But, eventually, they would get used to the taste and like the rats, begin to prefer the taste.

Save that cornbread and hot sauce for the cooked rats folks. It is worthless as a rat deterrent.

I respect what you're saying, and I also respect that you're selling (I base that on your signature) a very good feeder that helps manage or eliminate the problem of easy access to food which is likely the biggest issue that people need to address or we wouldn't even be here talking about them. Spillage and easy access to food is a huge part of the problem, not to mention various other things around your house that feed them. Pet food, garbage, wild bird feeders without a catch net to keep it off the ground, the list goes on and on.

This isn't about taste, it's about the inflammation to tissue caused by the high levels of the stuff. it changes the bird seed color to orange when you mix the oil around in it and stir it good.

I spent quite a bit of time researching today and really didn't find much to support its worthless as a deterrent but in some cases it may not be effective at low dosage. I checked your post history and didn't see the link to an article but admittedly it was kind of kludgy opening every post trying to find it.

Can you post your link again? I'm really interested in learning more, keeps the brain healthy.

edit: Sorry had to make a few edits.

 

[londrajs]

Ya I had dogs so I was weary about using poison. I tried traps and every kind known to man. They were successful but slow going and the rats would get wise to them. Once you have any kind of population you can't trap them as fast as they breed.
I tried a few of those methods and although I wasn't a true believer I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.
It actually did. The time I wasted messing with them gave them time to really build the numbers to get out of control. Lesson learned.

I read this on line, so who knows what. I know my experience is inductive reasoning, but the Jiffy/baking soda seems to work here. For now!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I read this on line, so who knows what. I know my experience is inductive reasoning, but the Jiffy/baking soda seems to work here. For now!

Well, if you Googled it then it’s settled

 

[The Moonshiner]

I just know from my experience that once you notice a problem with them you're already way behind. There's always more then you're seeing and they populate crazy quick.
If it's working for you my advise would be how ever much you're setting out Xs it by 10.
I know when I switched to poison like everything else they wised up to want was going on. I needed to switch brands a few times to keep ahead of them.
You may want to do the same with your mix. Swap the cornbread mix to something else after a while. Idk, good luck

 

[Tib]

I just know from my experience that once you notice a problem with them you're already way behind. There's always more then you're seeing and they populate crazy quick.
If it's working for you my advise would be how ever much you're setting out Xs it by 10.
I know when I switched to poison like everything else they wised up to want was going on. I needed to switch brands a few times to keep ahead of them.
You may want to do the same with your mix. Swap the cornbread mix to something else after a while. Idk, good luck

Very true, once you see one, you've got a major issue. I had a neighbor who is a "buried alive level" hoarder who basically left her house abandoned with a hole in the roof from a huge tree falling on it for over a year. It was a mess.

The rest of the neighbors had to get the city involved and they were about to condemn the house. Raccoons, squirrels, roaches, and rats moved in, tore the place to shreds you could see them at night with IR filters and emitters on your camera inside the house, attic, everywhere. It was like a horror movie looking at that house and watching it spread out to other houses.

They finally had the roof fixed but the critters were trapped inside and I guess finally broke free. Guess where they attempted to set up camp? The rest of our houses.

Thankfully there are flat out murdering outdoor cats that helped kill them off while we had to do all the other perimeter things to deter them. High quality squirrel proof bird feeder is useless when a raccoon will shake the thing till all the seed falls out.

It took us months of diligence to solve the problem with the rats and raccoons. Cats did most of the rat work, the raccoons are were a serious challenge. Ripping siding off your house, trying to rip the soffit out. 8 years later I still scrub the timelines of all the outdoor cameras looking for those evil bastards. I'll find one once in a while and the next day it's war and that night I'll hear the trap go off and dispatch it.

 

[redinator]

All I ask for is frickin roosters with frickin laser beams attached to their heads!

I don't know about laser beams, but I thought these were hilarious https://a.co/d/7aFlUaJ