No ...they will eat chicks and eggs plus feed by the bucket loads ....
their breeding is based on available food source ...so if they can feed
at will they will breed like you wouldn't believe.
Pete
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On 1/28/2010 4:09 AM, Atomicblonde wrote:
> Hello - I have 4 hens with a coop and run attatched and have noticed that rats are burrowing into the run enclosure at night - they aren't attempting to get into the indoor coop with the chickens and despite me removing the chickens food at night from the run enclosure the rats are still continuing to burrow in almost every night!
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> I have been out and destroyed the rat burrows with a spade and put stones all around the edge of the coop and run to prevent more burrowing but the sods are persisting - and yesterday afternoon I saw 2 of the cheeky blighters with their heads poking from their burrows next to the chicken enclosure staring at me with no fear!!
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> Again last night I destroyed the burrows with a spade and covered their favourite entrance spot with a paving slab and this morning saw a rat in broad daylight sniffing around the edge of the run enclosure without a care in the world!!!
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> If the rats arent harming the chickens or doing any damage other tan their burrowing is it ok to let them be?
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> Many Thanks
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> Kelly - Teignmouth, Devon , United Kingdom
> (Cuckoo Maran, White Sussex, Bantam and a brown hen!)
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