Cornbread rat cure

[McChooky]

Moonshiner, we have been going about this all wrong. The idea of mixing cornbread mix with rats might have some merit.

D***! I don't know what's worse,processing them or eating them!

 

[McChooky]

I didn't even make it that far. That's nasty stuff

I concur!

 

[Al Gerhart]

When I moved in this place 10 yrs ago I inherited some rats so I fed them dry instant mashed potatoes (the cheapest I could find)Keeping a bowl of fresh clean water beside the bowl of potato flakes will encourage them to drink more water and cause the flakes to swell.I had a pest control employee give me this tip when we got rats at a guardhouse in Rural Hall NC.I never saw the first dead rat but they all disappeared

Consider the logic here. Dry potato flakes ingested, then water is drunk, supposedly the flakes swell up.

Volume of water + volume of water will be the same after the water absorbs. Potato flakes do swell 8 to 10% but the total volume does not increase, the water is merely absorbed. This is not a phase change like ice freezing.

Once inside the stomach, explain why a rodent's stomach could not digest carbohydrates?

The paper on the Mythology of Vertebrate Pest Control by the University of Nebraska that I posted several times already disputes potato flakes as does common sense.

Now, if that wasn't enough, how about a study where rats were fed a mixture of potato flakes and rather than die in agony the study determined the potato flakes were good for the colon system. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48508403

And another where potato flakes improved the colon system due to the antioxidant qualities of potato starch. https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...f344-rats-fed-a-cholesterol-rich-diet-div.pdf

People, this information can be found using a one minute Google search. How about doing a minute of research before blindly posting bad advice? We get that you mean well but we just saw a post from two long time respected members stating they only got results once they followed the tried and true methods.

 

[The Moonshiner]

How about a bowl of Coca-Cola next to a pile of Mentos?

 

[Al Gerhart]

Rat rockets.... might not kill them but they would land in the next county.



I suppose if they loaded up on the mentos first before drinking the soda pop some effect would have to be there. What the studies say though is that rodents treat new food with caution, nibbling on it for a few days before eating a lot of it. And that if any discomfort happens they stop testing the strange food item.