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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: groundhog holes in alpaca field

 

Terriers are the best for ratting our prissy little yorkshire terrier isn't so prissy when it comes to hunting mice or rats.
 
Jim

--- On Sun, 11/29/09, Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: groundhog holes in alpaca field
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 12:04 PM

 
Luckily, we haven't seen rats at our place, but deer mice were a problem for a couple of years. We use cats and havahart traps, and disturbing their nests helps. Of course, cleaning up any feed will help.

We avoid using poison or those awful sticky traps. Even if we consider an animal a pest, I abhor cruelty. Do you have enough cats? :) And maybe a small dog like a rat terrier would be helpful. Wouldn't it be great to be able to go get a barn owl or two?


Heather

Heather Zeleny
White Lotus Alpacas
Oregon

Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece

On Nov 29, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Nancy Carhart wrote:


What are people doing/using to control brown rats? We have a few rats that are tunneling in under the barn which has a gravel floor, pushing up the rubber stall mats, and then burrowing big holes under the mats. We have set up Havahart traps but the rats are outsmarting us thus far!

We keep our grain in covered metal cans and sweep the grain room clean every day. We have a small herd of alpacas, llamas, and goats (for a total of 6).  I rarely see the rats unless I chance to see them scurrying into their hole.

Thanks in advance.

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