Chickens and Rats

[Paul S.]

Chicken feed, or any animal food for that matter, will attract rats and mice. A long term problem with chicken feed is that I can grow and produce new food sources for rodents and other foragers. Also, vacant land tends to accumulate rubbish, some of which may be food for rodents. Whether that is the case or not, once a rodent population becomes established in a locality, it tends to nest there and roam for food sources. One can see the same thing with foxes as well raiding people's gardens and urban areas from adjacent bushlands.

One suggestion is to have traps set out in the vacant land, and then keep it well tended (grass mowed and rubbish free).

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