rats

 
hello.i've got rats nesting in my compost bin!i'm not sure how they have
got in.what should i do?cheers,lee




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Unless your compost bin is indoors, nothing. If they're not in the compost
bin they'll be under the shed, or in the bin area, or wherever. But not far
away.

Steve

 
Actually, they dislike disturbance.  Turning the heap over (i.e.
making a new one out of the contents) is all I need to do.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 On 26/11/2011 22:59, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:

I had mice living in one of my compost bins last Winter. They did a
smashing job of converting all the cardboard and paper into fine bits
along with the rest of the compost. Come spring it was the best batch of
compost of all the bins and easy to spread on the garden. First time
I've thought of the little buggers as doing something useful.

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 On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:20:33 +0100, David in Normandy wrote:


Same here but it was rats, plastic dalek, they'd knawed their own
access at one of the vents. They did a marvelous job of turning the
compost unfortunately they decided that the compost bin wasn't homely
enough and decided to join us in ours. Not for long they all ended up
as ex rats.

Fitted bits of bent 1cm glavanised mesh to the vents to stop any new
wanderes getting in.

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Cheers
Dave.