hey in my ongoing battle with uh rodents and controlling rodent population on my farm
yeah i'm getting a handle on it stay tuned and show you guys what i'm doing
to control especially the rat mouse and squirrel population we'll be right back
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hey folks welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen this
is what i call the bunny bungalow it is my rabbit house that i built to contain my rabbits keep them
warm in the winter cool in the summer because i have a air conditioner in there for them so
my buck does not lose his viability in the heat i keep them nice and cool so i could breed my
rabbits throughout the year without interruption if i chose to so that's why i have this going
now in an ongoing battle with rodents in my area yeah we've had squirrels rats mice under the house
and in the house and in the walls of the house it wasn't until i discovered a concoction that i
can be put together to attract the rodents to eat the product and to kill them
it was simple four tablespoons of jiffy cornbread mix or you could use any attractant that would
attract a rat or a mouse to eat it but the key ingredient that will kill them is
a baking soda equal parts baking soda what happens is the baking soda mixes with their
stomach acid juices and it bubbles up and since rodents can't throw up or
burp and readily pass gas it builds up in their system and well yeah it's deadly to them
so i've had a lot of viewers um
email me using that recipe and testifying to the fact that they had great success
a lot of times overnight i i have not had success overnight it's taken a couple of days for it to
work but the problem is if you're doing it in your house and you find out where they're coming
and going you block it then you uh start using the bait and poison well it's baking soda then
they'll die in the house well the the odor only haunts for about 10 days and once that's done
put it this way we've been road free in our house for two years now but suffice it to say i have
the attic where i found rodents and they get in they even chewed holes through the screen
to get into the rabbit feed because that's what they're going after is the bunny feed
they also have been taking up residence in the tractor barn and the reason why they're
going to both places and the seven cats who are in resident on the homestead aren't getting to them
because the cats can't get into here or can't get in the attic up there and the rodents are pretty
safe up there so up in the attic i spent the last month putting up the bait putting up trail cameras
and then checking it periodically to see now i had an infestation up there as you can see right here
then once the numbers started dwindling over the last three weeks it got down to
three then one and now there's none because the bait was effective at killing them now it's
i have it in the in the in the tractor barn too it's killing squirrels it's killing rats it's
killing mice but what's nice about it is it does not kill the livestock or the pets that get in get
a hold of it or even get a hold of the dead corpse and it does not kill any wildlife that actually
eats the corpse of the dead mouse or rat if they should find it i've been finding little corpses of
squirrels and rats laying around so i i throw them out here and so with the little corpses getting
here it catches the attention of the wildlife the crows i get the crows coming in and eating them
i have a group of crows i ended up with a murder here because a group of cloak crows is called the
murder and so that's how i end up with a murder in my backyard and so they take care of the rotting
carcasses i don't have to worry about them but i'm feeding the crows and feeding the life the
wildlife and if the kitties want a meal there's protein around i haven't found any lately uh
it's been about two weeks i haven't found anything and i i found zero evidence of the rodents in the
attic or in the uh the rabbit house because they haven't been leaving those little turds around
finally getting victory over the infestation on the farm and more importantly getting a victory
over them around the house and the garden so this stuff works with moles and voles
chipmunks squirrels uh i've heard x-lex and juicy fruit chewing gum works on gophers
it doesn't work on possums possums are beneficial they will eat mice skunks will eat mice too but i
have a problem with skunk they'll eat my bees and my beehives is they can reach them that's
how come i have my beehive set so high but the skunks will eat a whole hive of bees in one
night is just decimate a hive so that's why i i'm not fond of skunks around but they do
get into my eggs and eat my eggs they also well the rats get to the eggs too but they also eat
hatchling baby chicks and baby turkeys if they can get into their pans they'll eat those too so
that's the saga of getting victory over rodents in the attic yeah and around the farm seven
cats they do what they do uh and i'm getting rid of like i said squirrels rats and mice
i don't have chipmunks around here and the other creatures they can do what they want to do but
they don't bother my animal feed or don't bother my livestock or eggs which i'm fine with that
as long as they don't start destroying things i can live with them well i'm your host jerry hansen
this is pine meadows hobby farm we're a frugal homestead tucked up in the cascade ranges of the
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