November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Rat Problem Quail Escape & Grass in Pen Experiment


Rats nesting on quail pen becoming a big issue, quails escaping, and the results of the grass in the quail pen experiment – it’s all happening in this episode!

Last video done on quail pen refurb:
https://youtu.be/QyV3jWhhARc
Quail pen build:
https://youtu.be/yUV6kBQX5fo
Website:
http://www.selfsufficientme.com/

Solution found: https://youtu.be/ikELExkScJU

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29 thoughts on “VIDEO: Rat Problem Quail Escape & Grass in Pen Experiment

  1. i have a friend that hunts rats with mink.
    youtube joseph carter the minkman.
    not feasable for you.
    poison is the only way iv found t totally eliminate them.
    and even thats only temporary.
    the peanut butter bucket is a good thing.but even it wont get them all.
    rats are smart.once you catch one..theyll avoid the bucket.
    the cool thing about the mink.they go down in the hole and kill them all.
    you have alot of australian mates hunt ferrets.
    pen the quail up and turn loose the ferrets

  2. Hi Mark, as far as the rats and mice getting under the hills in your corrugated roofing goes, I noticed that you are just using straight 2 x 2' to screw your roofing to using the valley's in the roofing. Do you have available to you, at your hardware stores, a product often called "wooden closure strips", also known as "wiggle molding"? They are wooden strips of which one side is flat and the other side is scrolled like the corrugated roofing. You nail the strip down, across your trusses, then screw the corrugated roofing down to that strip on the hills of the roofing with a special screw or nail that has a rubber washer on it which prevents the hole from leaking water when it rains. I believe that rats would just chew through the foam if you squirt it in but it would take a lot more for them to chew through the wood to get up under the corrugated roofing hills. You may have already found the answer to your issue, since this was posted a very long time ago, but since I didn't see anyone else suggest this, I thought I'd post it anyway.

  3. Expanding foam. Can shove newspaper into the gap to reduce the amount you need. I've grown grass in a pen under wire. Suspend it an inch above so the birds cant scratch. They love picking the green shoots

  4. Dynamite inside a quail or an exploding mechanical quail. Electrify the fence briefly, that should be fun. Plenty "o" volts !
    Great video, great catch and that hawk was beautiful. Much more attractive than the predatory birds in England / UK.
    Thanks alot.

  5. If you keep the roof clear of leaves and it's sunny. They will bake from the heat. That may help. Maybe extent a bit of wire over the edge of the roof from the sidewalls. Locking them out, and then just bend it over the top in the gaps?

  6. I just have an idea, maybe grow poisonous mushrooms around the property so the rats would eat it by mistake and become delirious and fall to easy prey?

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