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harry

  • Joined Mar 2009
home made rat poison
« on: July 04, 2011, 08:46:02 pm »
has anyone ever made any rat poison... like flour, sugar and baking soda.

Sandy

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2011, 09:37:46 pm »
Sure thats not my Scones????

deepinthewoods

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2011, 09:51:01 pm »
oats and plaster of paris ;)

doganjo

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2011, 11:25:36 pm »
Do these really work?  I often see rats running along the small wall in my front paddock that borders the burn.  But I can't use rat poison for fear my cat migt catch and eat a half dead one - and my dogs for that matter, they wouldn't eat them but they'd retreive them.

What is the recipe?
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deepinthewoods

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2011, 12:23:16 pm »
mix up some dry oats with dry powder plaster of paris, it sets hard in their guts. not a nice way to go, but hey ho!!

Sandy

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2011, 01:17:30 pm »
THen, you can remove thier skin and you have a rat ornement ready made  ;) ;) You sure about that?  ;)

CameronS

  • Joined Aug 2009
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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2011, 07:58:15 pm »
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mix up some dry oats with dry powder plaster of paris

What do you put it in for rats to eat from, sorry for the stupid questions  ::)  and where do you leave it, ok i know away from moisture (I'm not that daft ;D )

deepinthewoods

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2011, 08:03:06 pm »
find a well used run and keep it topped up same as u would warfarin. itll kill your cats as well i should think, so be careful where you put it. but at least the cats can then eat the dead rat with no fear, tho most of th b......ds die underground.

belgianblue

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2011, 01:52:51 pm »
peanut butter and kitkats and large gluey board

harry

  • Joined Mar 2009
Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2011, 09:02:06 pm »
add sugar to the mix.... i cup of everthing... i put my poison in an old rabbit hutch all closed up and a small rat hole in the side..i place a large bowl in there .... nothing else can get to it and spillage etc is contained in the hutch... add some small pellet feed for smell to attract them... or some cat food in a different bowl anything smelly.

ellisr

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Wales
Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2011, 02:22:25 pm »
The rats in my barn chewed there way into the rat poison bucket and ate the lot  ;D

harry

  • Joined Mar 2009
Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2011, 02:27:06 pm »
thats why you should keep everything... feed, poison etc in a steel bin

harry

  • Joined Mar 2009
Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2011, 06:46:06 pm »
well made some today    one part sugar, one part plaster paris, 1/2 part poultry mash.... and a bowl of water to help it down...looked for a stick to mix it all up and thought what the hell am i doing, i can mix this with my fingers which makes a change from rubber gloves and sticks etc.......... all in a rabbit hutch
« Last Edit: July 13, 2011, 07:55:43 pm by harry »

faith0504

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Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2011, 10:35:27 pm »
let us know how you get on  :wave:

ellisr

  • Joined Sep 2009
  • Wales
Re: home made rat poison
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2011, 12:30:19 pm »
thats why you should keep everything... feed, poison etc in a steel bin

Feed is in bins but I had just bought the poison and popped it in the door way until I could sort it the next day and they beat me to it so now walking around collecting dead rats must have collected about 10 now

 

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