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RE: Oh Rats - They Are At It Again
I love rats but yes if they take over it can be a problem. What I do to keep them away is peppermint oil they hate it. Soak cloth , flax or cotton with the oil and place it in places they come through . If you have holes where they come into the house nail down steel mesh then a layer of cloth or cotton or ect douse it with peppermint oil and nail another sheet of steal mesh over it . plant peppermint around your home and the barn . Make sure the peppermint oil is the real thing or it is not going to work . i have cleaned out infested houses like this but you need to be consistent and refresh periodically. Also adopting a cat or two can help a lot too ...
Oh wow, I am going to try the oils for sure. As for the plants the rats ate off my peppermint and spearmint plants LOL
I would love to adopt cats, but my mother hates cats with a deep seated passion, so keeping them on the farm is not the best idea. (she would probably prefer eradicating them in stead of the rats :( )
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there are also ultrasonic plugins that scare off rats but i would only put them in the barn and you need to test how the other animals react to them. You could also try to get that contraceptive stuff cities use on pigeons who know if it works on rats too ...basically it just makes them infertile so there are just no future generations , but i don't know if one can do that with rats its just a wild idea ...
Oh wow, I was reading up on rat contraceptives - its a thing LOL
well there you go the cute little rats get to live out their lives but there are no babies after :D