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It’s Thursday night, I have the house to myself for a couple of hours, and remember what happens when I have free time? Yup – rats!
Since the last time I told you about them I have found another two! This is good news, show me your happy face please. Keeping on top of the bait situation is paying dividends. The last one had managed to crawl along the bottom of the fence and alllmmmost under it into the next door neighbour’s garden. It never fails to give me a start when I see them even though I am scanning for them. This one had wee paws in the air, n’all! Actually, it was pretty gross – I couldn’t extract it from where it was wedged and had to get a pair of pliers to pull on a leg. . . just ever so gently . . . the leg came and came and came and I was quite convinced it was going to pull off the body!
After buying the last few lots of rat bait from B&Q this latest lot came from the farm shop. I have high hopes for it – it comes in plastic bags that they have to nibble through and I suppose this helps me see if it has been touched. The one I put out a couple of days ago hasn’t been touched yet though. Bummer huh?
Anyway, the thing you need to know about dead rats is – they smell! Don’t open a bucket after a week and expect to smell roses!
Tonight I managed to tidy up the run a little bit more and this evening’s photo shows what happens when you fill up the water bucket for the second time in a day! You would think they hadn’t had anything to drink for a week! Yes! There is one actually standing in the water!
In other news I’m starting to put together our kit for Saturday. The bottles of water are filled, the guinea pig cage has been cleaned out, the wood shavings are ready to put in the bottom of the cage, and I am narrowing down the choice of which hens to keep and not take with me.
Yay for Poultry Fairs! How excited are YOU?