When will the locusts arrive?
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:16 pm
After last week's debacle by mice and rats, I bought some bait traps and 'Gold standard' poison from the Farmer's shop. Set them up in the tunnels and barns, determined to get them, wherever they decided to roam.
Spent yesterday re-sowing. Got up this morning to find much of the poison left for the mice has been taken, along with yet more broad beans, peas and chard. They 've also had a look at the beetroot, but didn't fancy them.
The rats have also eaten their bait, but stopped off for a snack of the chitting potatoes on their way home.
The badgers are back - they've dug up 4 beds of strawberries and generally had a bit of a party around the place.
AND - we've got a family of foxes down the field - just as I'm about to get my hens.
Who says living in the country is quiet? It's more like a war zone here!
Spent yesterday re-sowing. Got up this morning to find much of the poison left for the mice has been taken, along with yet more broad beans, peas and chard. They 've also had a look at the beetroot, but didn't fancy them.
The rats have also eaten their bait, but stopped off for a snack of the chitting potatoes on their way home.
The badgers are back - they've dug up 4 beds of strawberries and generally had a bit of a party around the place.
AND - we've got a family of foxes down the field - just as I'm about to get my hens.
Who says living in the country is quiet? It's more like a war zone here!
Our neighbour has\had rats under their shed and they were causing problems trying to get into our hen run. I was given the following tip. Put out Smash mash potato granules with the bait - they love the Smash and will go for that over veggie matter, but scoff the bait as well once attracted to the dish. The Smash granules swell up in their stomachs and stop them looking for anything else. Seems to have worked as seen none recently.
