LTAY1946
Chicken Wrangler
Rats sometime chew through plastic totes to get to stored feed and if they are eating birds they are feed to them too.... Hope it works for you. A rat trap or perhaps a bait station for rats could be put out to where the chicks could not get to them would also help reduce the problem?Does anyone ever feel like keeping chickens is a constant battle against predators and pests? For those of you who were in the April hatch with me, maybe you remember how I had a chick go missing from the shed overnight?
Well, 2 of my May chicks have also disappeared from the shed now. I am thinking it has to be a rat because if it was a stoat it would have killed more than one at a time.
So I am going to start putting them in a plastic bin overnight with a screen over the top, hopefully they will be safe from the rat in there. I am down to 12 chicks from my original 16, as I had another chick die and I had to cull one that was having seizures. Just hope I have a lot of pullets in this group, cause it looks like only 2 of my April hatch are female!
Going to hatch again since I really need more hens, so I’ll probably see some of you in the June HAL.