Chicken Coop Heating

by chicken house plans on Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off

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I need help with rat problem in chicken house, Any Idea's???

I do pest control and i'm battling to control the rat population at a egg laying plant. it's basically a double story chicken coop, were the chickens are kept on the upper level and there droppings fall down to the lower level. There is a major rat infestation there, it is impossible to eliminate them totally, but i'm trying to keep them under control, and i'm running out of idea's. please help!!!

just to give some prospective:

There are 30'000 chickens in one house and there are six houses.

with physical reduction we kill about 500 rats a week.

houses are approx 500m X 15m, and rats are living in roof voids which has a gap of about 8cm and filled with a stuffing like material for heat insulation.

doppings are cleared out about twice a month.

already using poison etc.

I need some mirricle idea's!!! Please help with some advice!!

I haven't come across that sort of situation in my work but if you want to post your question at

http://www.ipconetwork.org/fmb/cboard.mv

the question will be seen by over a hundred PCOs where I would bet at least one has dealt with what you are dealing with