Some big longtails

[big napper 3,619]

A mate just got a great rat permission on a chicken farm, running wick with rats, some of the biggest iv seen, 1st night he got 40 odd and 2nd night he took me and we got about the same between us, heres a few that we could get to

[truegrit 78]

Good lord thy big old long tails fella

[big napper 3,619]

Haha, they are pal, cheers

[The one 8,503]

Nice going mate well done 

[philpot 5,031]

Sport of kings BN only wish I could get another productive ratty perm.

Phil

[bigmac 97kt 13,807]

Nice GOING John 

I spend to much time jumping around or looking to c where they are 

To shoot them 

And if one runs over my boots I'm off as quick as lightening 

[big napper 3,619]

Haha, i know what you mean mac im a bit like that but just grin and bare it,

Cheers pal

[big napper 3,619]

On 21/11/2024 at 18:46, philpot said:

Sport of kings BN only wish I could get another productive ratty perm.

Phil

Rat shooting is what i like best phil 

Prefere it to all other shooting,

I had a great rat farm that i shot hundreds on but lost it for some reason a about 2 years ago,

This perm is a pals and theres about 8 different areas to it that are crawling with rats, should be great shooting for him for a long while.

 

[philpot 5,031]

24 minutes ago, big napper said:

Rat shooting is what i like best phil 

Prefere it to all other shooting,

I had a great rat farm that i shot hundreds on but lost it for some reason a about 2 years ago,

This perm is a pals and theres about 8 different areas to it that are crawling with rats, should be great shooting for him for a long while.

 

I totally agree with you, we had a perm where we shot around 1100 rats per year, fantastic winter sport but then the dairy farm cleaned up its act fitting off the ground feeders, released some feral cats which bred so now there is about 25 cats and the rats have gone.  We are just waiting for some feedback from the council as they have major issues with rats at their waste depot with rats chewing through power cables, huge numbers and now almost imune to the poisons so we are in with a chance again. 

Phil

[big napper 3,619]

Good luck with that then pal hope you get it, shootings the best way to get rid of them i think, shooting at night and terriers in the day if the place is safe enough for them to work.

Good luck pal

[jeemes 4,491]

On 23/11/2024 at 09:04, philpot said:

I totally agree with you, we had a perm where we shot around 1100 rats per year, fantastic winter sport but then the dairy farm cleaned up its act fitting off the ground feeders, released some feral cats which bred so now there is about 25 cats and the rats have gone.  We are just waiting for some feedback from the council as they have major issues with rats at their waste depot with rats chewing through power cables, huge numbers and now almost imune to the poisons so we are in with a chance again. 

Phil

I think cats are fairly useless as far as large numbers of rats are concerned. Ive watched them in the thermal doing nothing whilst rats are just everywhere. They might do a couple but are too layed back to do numbers. Air rifles or terriers are very effective alternative to expensive poisons.

[philpot 5,031]

17 hours ago, jeemes said:

I think cats are fairly useless as far as large numbers of rats are concerned. Ive watched them in the thermal doing nothing whilst rats are just everywhere. They might do a couple but are too layed back to do numbers. Air rifles or terriers are very effective alternative to expensive poisons.

I do agree with you but the change of cattle feedes simply removed much of the food source so the rats moved away and the cats keep numbers down now as there is only a fraction of the population of rats there now.

Phil

[mC HULL 13,308]

On 25/11/2024 at 05:54, jeemes said:

I think cats are fairly useless as far as large numbers of rats are concerned. Ive watched them in the thermal doing nothing whilst rats are just everywhere. They might do a couple but are too layed back to do numbers. Air rifles or terriers are very effective alternative to expensive poisons.

i’ve noticed that cats stay  clear of the rats 

[Borr 6,285]

5 hours ago, mC HULL said:

i’ve noticed that cats stay  clear of the rats 

Colleague today has a small holding full of rescue animals 20 plus cats , said if he sees a rat they don't get fed for a night ,not a mouse not rats survives on the place....said he's trained them lol

[jeemes 4,491]

On 06/12/2024 at 16:32, Borr said:

Colleague today has a small holding full of rescue animals 20 plus cats , said if he sees a rat they don't get fed for a night ,not a mouse not rats survives on the place....said he's trained them lol

That might be ok with the odd rat trying to move in but when you suddenly have a lot move in then its too big a job for a cat or cats. They are too busy shaggin and fighting each other. If one animal sees another as a food source they dont usually wipe them out cos there too busy eating one. Cats by habit dont kill numbers, like terriers do, and if a place is devoid of rats/mice the cats are redundant and so you have to feed them to keep them in which case they dont need to hunt rats and mice are easier for a bit of sport. Get terriers in I say and do the rats and then the cats!! good sport.