and welcome to the secret gardener
survival and this barn here is where I
house my secret livestock of survival my
livestock that is sustainable and that
sustains us and that gives us all our
protein and I smell a rat big problem
with having life stacking barns is a
invariably you get rats and mice which
carry disease and infections and along
the bottom here and going under the
frame you can see that there's a rat
hole and you can see if there's no dirt
kicked out here so it actually is inside
the barn making that making that hole
and that's his little escape hole right
there I just so happened to see the rat
in the barn the other night when I was
going back in to check on the animals
and unfortunately I didn't have any way
to dispose of him at that moment but
anyway we get a a rat in here that we
need to do something about and I'm going
to show you the other side of the hole
so you can see this is a that's a big
rat there's the hole underneath the wood
of the frame but this rat is using so
basically he was digging a hole and
kicking the dirt back this way and
that's so he's inside the barn maybe as
a nest a tunnel system or something and
gotta get rid of him because we do not
want our feed to be contaminated because
they will pee and poop in the feed and
they will spread disease and also make
the food unusable for the other animals
and since we have animal trays out here
where we feed the animals we don't want
to leave any food in there that the rat
is going to use
and defecate or pee in four because then
the yen wasn't want to eat it in the
food that's in here well last night I
just checking noise in the barn and
there's rat poop right here that's
pretty big stuff right there
rat poop by no means a little amount of
mouse you can hardly see and then
there's an area over here that's
actually been brushed away and there's
rat right in here right there so it was
sitting here I don't know if it was
eating alfalfa or what but I'm gonna get
rid of this stuff because this is
disease waiting to spread right here so
I have tried every form of trap out
there including these body catch of
traps and it's I've even used at the
piece of Moon Pie so it's good
marshmallow and chocolate on it and it
has avoided every trap I have put out
and just dug another hole down the line
instead of right here so you can see
what this will do so still no look so
this is where we stored our hay or
alfalfa and that sort of stuff up on
concrete blocks and my wife found a
series of tunnels going through here so
we dug all that up and then filled it
with concrete and so last night we left
this thing out to dry and this morning I
came in
and this rat I'll show you how
destructive they are that is a 2x4 a
pressure-treated 2x4 right there and
this rat literally chewed a hole through
that 2x4 so it could get out
so obviously it's stuck in the stall or
has a nest underneath this alright so
there's the rat hole down there
and what I've done is taking hardware
cloth and stapled it to the edge here
and around this whole board is the
negative and that is hooked to the white
wire which is the negative on this so on
this electric fence charger and that's
hooked up right there you can hear it
ticking so it's working and the positive
the black runs down to that little grate
right there so when the rat touches the
edges and they are usually going to run
around the sides of anything they will
become the arc between the positive on
the ground and the negative on the wall
so that will fry the little sucker with
about 10,000 volts and hopefully that
will be the end of it
well the rat was pretty smart and
unfortunately it actually avoided the
electric trap altogether and as you can
see it dug a hole around it so I'm gonna
have to try to find some way to smoke
this thing out to get it out of here
because there's no other way
I ordered what I thought was going to be
some way to smoke the rats out and this
just for smoke because I was trying to
find someplace I could just get some
some white smoke smoke the rat out and
this is actually came listed as smoke
and it's for woodchucks in Norway rats
and that sort of stuff but didn't
realize it was actually a pesticide and
look at the warning label this I mean it
says do not use near animals livestock
do not use under in houses in barns
under houses under barns so that almost
just kind of takes away every what place
so there is a rat so ya can't have this
deadly poison in my animal so I've got
to find another way to smoke these these
rats out so that they'll end up going
right on to my electric fence because
they keep digging their way around it so
here's a way we're gonna do it I guess I
I've got a thought here on how to do it
this is my bee smoker that you can use
for smoking bees and it's got a little
bellows thing here so you can put air in
there and smoke will come out and you
can put flammable material in there like
oh straw or leaves or in my case I try
to use cedar shavings because it
produces more white smoke for the bees
purposes any
way but that is really a good way to do
this now do is find a way to be able to
pump this smoke into the hole for the
rat and I'll just plug up every single
hole except the one I want it to run out
and the hole I'm trying to pump smoke
into so hopefully the smoke will fill up
the the rats layer and will come out the
the end I want it to and so will the rat
so that it will be able to breathe well
I just happen to have a hose I think
will work in conjunction with the smoker
here it's just a hose from our shop back
so we'll see how it will work
and I mentioned before I really need to
plug these holes up these are the holes
that are in the barn
throughout the barn really I can plug
them up with these rocks here and
they'll keep the smoke from going
everywhere except where I want the rat
to go and choke him out so I've got the
thin end of the hose down into the hole
of the last hole and then this is the
hose from the shop back and I've just
actually put some some tin foil on there
so this smoker won't melt it but you can
see that I just pumped this thing a
little bit it's pumping smoke into the
hole and
filling that hole up with smoke so we'll
see what happens if that rat runs across
the electric trap like I'm hoping ago
okay I had smoked up the rat and then I
was getting ready to essentially he
wasn't coming out wasn't doing anything
so I was getting ready to just start
digging all this whole thing out and
then I looked and glanced down here at
the hole and lo and behold I saw a
little face down there and it was trying
to get some breath and breathing out
through the hole wasn't willing to drive
out through and come through but it was
actually really show you anyway this
thing was he was trying to come out of
that hole and just stick his nose out of
there just trying to get some breath so
I used an air rifle this is a Crossman
it looks like an ar-15 but it's just an
air rifle and brake barrel air rifle and
he basically pointed it in the hole and
got the little bastard right there so
I'm gonna pull him out now it wasn't
willing to cross my electric fence here
but it did try to breathe so the smoking
part did in fact work and I'll pull him
out here so you can see after I shut off
the electric fence course alright well
just to give you an idea this 16 ounce
bottle of Aquafina
yes as big as this rat and of course his
tail is even longer yeah that's him
right there
and everyone responsible for that hole
and all the other holes in the barn
hopefully he's the only only one I
haven't checked to see if it's male or
female but I will I got a feeling it was
a female cuz it needed to was like it
was nesting or something well there's a
poop coming out yeah I'd say that's a
big poop yeah so there you are Rapp
finally got you
so the smoke work to get them to least
come out to try and take a breath and
then just shot him in the hole
so that is some raddest fashion I would
say
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