Believe me, it was a nightmare! I had done the stupidest thing by putting down 25 pallets, to make a "floor" in the run to keep my chickens up out of the mud. Then I stuffed straw, a ton of it, down into all the pallet cracks. OMG, the rats just moved in!
I started a fire and started throwing...
Yes, I used bait stations inside the coop, where the chickens were. I put them along the walls behind nest boxes, rats like to walk along the edges. I also had to literally cover the run, under the coop with bait stations, glue boards and snap traps because I had covered every tiny crack in...
I waged a rat war over the summer. It was horrible. Put the bait stations in the coop, along the wall. Put some more out in the run, along edges. I also resorted to using those big glue boards. I cleaned away all pallets, straw and other places they could hide, covered ALL gaps with...