Cornbread rat cure

[Al Gerhart]

My apologies, surely I must have been obtuse and didn't adequately explain things.

The article you linked to admitted that the potato flakes do nothing......

Then the two studies I linked to fed rats ONLY potato flakes for many weeks with zero ill effect. There was no other food available in these peer reviewed published studies.

If one goes to the expense of a tight coop, assuming that is what you intended to say when you wrote "a predator proof coop" what would the reason for putting out potato flakes? If you did, wouldn't the rats have other food to eat?

Please explain that since A) rats can survive eating only potato flakes and B) the potato flakes do them zero harm, what would be the purpose of putting out potato flakes?

 

[McChooky]

My apologies, surely I must have been obtuse and didn't adequately explain things.

The article you linked to admitted that the potato flakes do nothing......

Then the two studies I linked to fed rats ONLY potato flakes for many weeks with zero ill effect. There was no other food available in these peer reviewed published studies.

If one goes to the expense of a tight coop, assuming that is what you intended to say when you wrote "a predator proof coop" what would the reason for putting out potato flakes? If you did, wouldn't the rats have other food to eat?

Please explain that since A) rats can survive eating only potato flakes and B) the potato flakes do them zero harm, what would be the purpose of putting out potato flakes?

If you actually read my comments you would know I don't have rats.

 

[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

In this post you claimed you did have rats and said feeding them potato flakes killed them.

 

[McChooky]

In this post you claimed you did have rats and said feeding them potato flakes killed them.

We killed them at a guardhouse in 2008.

 

[McChooky]

The previous tenant had rats where I'm living but we got rid of them after I moved in.That was 10 years ago