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Oh, I've missed "All ducks go to bed"!
The classics never get old :)
SAME
If you're still having problems with rats or other rodents that the barn cats aren't getting, check out Shawn Woods. He reviews a wide range of mouse and rat traps so there is likely just the trap you need for the rats.
I was going to say just thst
Same, that guy is great@@jrpotter9659
Another vote for Shawn Woods.
Bumping this up
Agreed. There’s also Joseph Carter, the Mink Man. Not that it’s practical to use his methods or fly him to Vermont, but more to see the experience with dogs, even if it’s just for education and entertainment. Would Toby and Abby get along with a small terrier? Or is it even safe to have a terrier with all the ducks and chickens around? Probably not, but it’s a thought.
"More waddling, less dawdleing" sounds like logo on some soon to be released merchandise.
Definitely my favorite line from Morgan's vlog!!
Facts
I would buy that shirt! ❤
I'd buy a t-shirt with that line too!
I don't think you have a rat. I think you have rats
Not Betterhelp man, you're better than that scam company
skip from 3:57- 5:39. some very handy-dandy browser extensions that can do that for you as well. Not going to fault him for keeping the channel going.
yeah, betterhelp isn't a great sponsor choice.
Had a poor experience with better help, it's unfortunate how many people have a hard time with their service :/
Agree so much!
Although some people have not had a good experience, Betterhelp is not a scam. It's a web-based health service, so you have to expect some problems. Morgan actually uses the service, and it has been good for him.
BROO NOT THE CLIFFHANGER ON THE RAT SAGA
Rats normally travel close to the walls, so placing traps in the middle of a room are away from the walls isn’t going to work, rats feels safer traveling the walls bc they’re not good at seeing that good.
We had a huge rat in our porch. We tried to catch him for 2 months! By the time we discovered him he had eaten an entire bag of coconut. We first bought a standard, snap rat trap and from the images on our game camera he dwarfed it! So we then bought a 12" box trap. He still looked huge next to it! We were able to measure his length when he reached up to sniff a cabinet door that had lines on it. He measured 14 inches all stretched out so the 12 inch trap was still too small. He would go in and reach really far for the snacks but back out fast without turning around and his body wouldn't be totally inside the trap! So we bought a 15" squirrel trap. We wired the door open for a night or two until he would go in comfortably. He wouldn't go for peanut butter as a bait so we tried other things and then we found his weakness. A chocolate chip cookie! It worked much to our relief.
A BB gun, a lawn chair, and a six-pack
This ^
There are folks that have “trained” ferrets, mink, terrier dogs, and even large lizards to deal with rat and mice issues. There are videos of them dealing with NIGHTMARE make your skin crawl infestations down to single pests. You might want to see if there is anyone in your local area that does this. Mark Fay
Large lizards, haven't heard that before,lol.
@@bkm2797 He's probably refering to "Joseph Carter" who tried, with moderate success, to train a monitor lizard for pest-control purposes.
@@bkm2797 he was using a small monitor lizard to deal with a bad mouse infestation in a bird aviary for small caged birds, the costumer was a breeder. The birds naturally had been removed prior to the visit. I seem the think it was a water monitor.
karenfay4545 Well I do watch a few reptile channels like Tyler Nolan, Chandlers Wildlife and Brian Barczyk, so I do know they love eating them, but they also love eggs and birds, good thing he removed them,lol. I really hope Morgan is able to take care of the situation before it gets out of hand. Cheers
You never just have A rat, you have ratS.
That's one thing. Yeah, rats live in family groups so it's rather odd that he's got this lone ranger rat. The other thing is rats never have only one entryway to their tunnels. Where's the other tunnel entrance? Maybe under the shed where there's space? Plus he feeds the chickens really close to the door when he could put their food at the end of that enclosure. That would necessitate the rat walking several, maybe 8 feet from the tunnel entrance to eat grain that the chickens made a mess with on the ground. Then, if he uses one of those cage traps closer to the shed, the rat will prefentially go for the food that is closer to the tunnel entrance. Right now he's making life easy for the rat. Rats are smart critters. And this one he's got is fast.
Jack Russel terriers are GOOD at dealing with rodent problems. An issue is that they could turn into chicken/duck killers due to their high prey drive.
I think that rat is the one that wrote the traps instructions.
Oh God glue traps are horrifying. I used to work at a place that used glue traps, and I was sweeping one of the offices, and found a mouse on a glue trap. It has literally torn itself apart trying to get off (pulled off 3 legs) and was somehow still alive. Had to get someone else to kill it, because I just couldn't do it. It's been over a decade since that happened, and I still remember how horrible it was. They try to use glue traps in my apartment building, but I always put the ones under my stove in the trash.
Back here in NYC we have recent proof of the dangers of rodenticide.- Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl had three rat poisons in his system which might have been part of his inability to avoid the fatal window crash.
RIP Flaco
Ex pest professional here. There ARE poisons that can affect other animals but thankfully most rodent control poisons are rodenticides and will NOT affect your other creatures. Tomcat is a safe brand to use for home use. If you want to use catch traps keep them against the wall AWAY from their burrow as they are less suspicious of traps and keep them UNSET then after a couple days then reset them. Good luck Morgan
that's a lie. if it was true, pets wouldn't die from it.
Do not use poisons.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry that you named the rat "Templeton." It's like when my mum shamed me for eating lamb with, "YOU ATE LAMBCHOP!!" 😂😂
In my experience you probably have more than 1 rat & should consider adding a Bull or Jack Russell Terrier to the farm
He already has barn cats lol and dogs are kinda expensive for just one rat
I dunno if a hunt driven terrier would be a great addition to a bird farm.
Much harder to train to leave the poultry alone. Their prey drive is pretty high. They see sudden movement and they're off. I've always had small terriers. I have two Australian Terriers now
I assume that would be inconvenient for his poultry population.. he had a hard enough time with abbys drive 😂
Rodents are just like potato chips. It's never just one.
For rats get large paddle spring traps. No bait but place 9 to 12 traps in a tight grid at the rat hole exit. There is the 5 gallon bucket trap with a lid that flips and a ramp. Never tried but is dog/cat safe.
Tyler Nolan who has a channel here in KZhead has a giant rat problem down in Florida he tried the bucket one, and even a huge model, not one rat.
We once had an old declawed Persian that was growling insanely at something under a board on the ground. I lifted the edge and he jumped in and started a screaming whirlwind attack on a wild rat! The cat won despite not having front claws! What a champ!
Why would you declaw a cat?
I used to trap big pack rats in an old house up at my grandparents ranch when I was about 12 years old. I used an old piece of stove pipe about 2 to 3 ft long. I slid in a racoon/coyote trap with the end of chain attached to a block of wood. I put in some grain in the pipe over the trap. I caught about twenty-five pack rats in two weeks.
I jumped when that trap went off. Lol.
Read this and still jumped. Hahahaha!
Hey, just wanted to say another you tuber “a chick called Albert” successfully captured all the rats he had using a trap they could get in and not out. If you search “a chick called Albert rats” it should be the first video. Good luck.
Love A Chick Called Albert, lovely human being saving all those animals, and he's really good at it.
Another great suggestion!
He really understood how to catch rats! I didn't know that rats were so mobile.
I always check Shawn Woods/Mousetrap Monday because he tests traps and shows which ones are reliable
I use live traps from Tractor Supply and they are great! We live off grid and they do a lot of damage if not kept under control. We live near a nature reserve, so I drive them to the reserve and set them free! We have a lot of coyotes and raptors and they need to eat too. 😊
Gold Shaw Farm: Did Molly ever come back? I hope she is ok whereever she is.
The cheek! He dragged the trap practically into his den! This means war!
this is a job for JosephCartertheMinkMan or ShawnWoodsMousetrapMonday😀. It'd be an interesting collab.
I have heard of people running a water hose down hole and flooding them out
You need to call --- Joseph Carter the Mink Man
Joseph Carter and his minks are very impressive, indeed!
Would he come over for just one rat though?
Love that guy. Some of the #'s he takes out is wild!!
is it only one rat though?
@@RoseNZieg they do say that if you see a rat there are many more hidden
ohh he is gonna milk this , prepare to see 7 parts series of Farmer vs Gaint rat lol
The rat didn’t get that big by being stupid. Lol
When we had rats recently, we found that putting the traps along the side of the walls made a big difference. So open side toward wall. Rats tend to run along walls rather than out into the open. If you orient the traps so they’re coming at the bait from the side, they’re more likely to put their full head in. I’d pull the trap he’s able to snag food from without getting caught. Also, look into one of the bucket traps.
Try using a slice of pepperoni. I know it sounds weird but we have had better luck catching mice with it than anything else. Even caught 2 with the same piece of pepperoni. 😂🤣 Good luck.
Yes. I was told something really smelly.
You need to get a bucket trap!! Shawn Woods is the mouse man on KZhead, and he tests all kinds of rodent and bug traps. The bucket trap is by far the most effective one he has ever tested!!!
I can hear you're a fan of Charlottes Web, my favorite story as a kid. Templeton was quite the rat. Rats are very smart Morgan, and once they start breeding, well let's not go there for now. Happy to see all the geese, chickens and ducks are in spring mode and filling up the egg basket. Can't wait for part 2 of the rat saga, wishing you the best! Thanks for taking us along.🐀🐓🦆🐣❤️👍
Tomcat rodent attractant works great for rodent problems I’ve had in the past. Put it in the middle of the snap trap cup and set it. Also as far as glue traps go they worked well in the house for me. When I first moved into my house we dispatched 17 in one night on the glue trap. We fixed the wholes and have haven’t had more issues, plus we now have multiple yard cats.
Lol when Morgan tells the ducks, chicken's, geese to go to bed and they follow him. I have never seen a big gaggle, group, follow a human on voice commands. Abby Dog looks like she might be able to catch the 🐁🐀 rat. Pablo is slacking on being top rat, mouse catcher. Excellent video Morgan.
Try a bucket trap, just a bucket with a trap door at the top. You can make an effective one with just a magnet and some wood.
As someone who had rats as pets growing up they're clever little bastards... mine figured out how to open the door to their cage... not just by pushing it open by force mind you, they found out the door was held locked by a tab on the top...so they pushed that one up to open the door...
Why would the rat come out of his hole when there are all of those contraptions sitting in a big circle around him....
Traps right up against the wall. Unarmed traps for a few days = then the armed traps. You putting these traps straight out in the open is a mistake. Many people have suggested this, but: Shawn Woods' YT channel is your friend. GL Morgan.
My brother has a lot of problems with gophers getting into his garden, so he runs a hose into one end of the gopher tunnel, and flushes them out the other end where his dogs are waiting to get them. Maybe try that during the day?
“Don’t do that girl, that’s how you end up in a stew pot” 😂
Toby and Abby need a Cairn Terrier now 😁
You should try a Twin Trap, sold by Twin Home Experts, it features a plate stabilizing it, så it doesn't flip over and a hoodie on top of the trap so the rat has to get in to the kill zone to get the bait. That increases the chance for success quite a bit.
Anytime there's a new Gold Shaw Farm video I hear trumpets from heaven!
Little dude understands traps, gotta respect the intelligence there
Not trying to be that guy but glue traps are one of the most unbelievable cruel and inhumane traps you could use and are even starting to be outlawed in countries around the world. rats and mice tend to literally rip themselves apart from struggling to get out, like literally tearing off limbs from struggling so much, even if they don’t they will still die of starvation or dehydration. I can’t even begin to imagine the prolonged pain and fear they feel.
13:55 Joey Ramone: You underestimate my power!!
Wild animals become confused and/or disoriented when there's too many different sources of food. Further, traps don't look or smell natural either. So try using only one trap and disguise it with both some natural scent and grass and leaves.
Molly Murder Mittens is looking down from cat Valhalla shaking her head at pablo and ginny thinking 'you had one job...'
he missed that third egg in the big catch tray lol
Lol... I thought I saw 3 also...
Make a "Dizzy Dunker" but sized to a 55 gallon drum to make it an escape proof rat trap.
All ducks go to bed. They remembered xx
Call The Mink Man.
I think Morgan might be hestitant about bringing more mink onto the farm!
@@jrpotter9659 said "minK guy" is a dude with trained minks for pest control - pretty sure he wouldnt want to leave his mink at Gold Shaw. Allthough he might not bother with Morgans rather predestrian singular problem^^
@@Sporting1210 Yeah this is more a job for ShawnWoodsMousetrapMonday
He is great and does not always use minks. His dogs do great and he is working with other animals to deal with rats. The guy is great. Also it is likely Morgan has way more than one rat. The Mink man is use to dealing with bird farms and how to get the rats. At the worse call him and get advice. It would be great to have a collaboration with him. He and his family might like the vacation.
@@drowessblack dont get me wrong: i fullheartedly would enjoy a colab and yes, the dude is cool. Didn't know he uses dogs too, though - it might have been a while since i last watched one of his vids. Anmd r4egarding the "more than one rat" -fair enough. there are allways more rats - litterally and figuratively *sigh*
Have you watched Mousetrap Monday on KZhead? Very informative about rat catching.
Morgan enters his exterminator phase
I bought sticky traps and the large rat traps. My husband saw a large critter running in our house and my cat was after it. He assumed it was a rat. The creature did get stuck on the sticky trap but got unstuck.I heard it skurryiing across the floor I found it was a baby possom. The baby possum would have been the same size or smaller as a rat. So that sticky trap didn't work. I was so happy that it didn't get killed by the trap. I would have been so upset. Such a cute little animal. I set it free.
I will not use those things.
Templeton 😂😂😂
Get a couple more of the wood and metal snap traps. Put them right at the hole and you should get it. Those black plastic style I have never caught anything in.
Rat 1 vs Morgan 0
call in Joseph Carter: the Mink Man. He'll bring in a bunch of trained dogs and a couple trained mink and get the job done right.
Big fan of all your posts and love all the animals on the farm. I have a cat called Tobey, and she's the best ratter I ever had. Tobey is too old to hunt, being at 22 years old. Thank you for all the enjoyable and informative videos, fan from Australia.🥰💖💖💖💖💖🐈🐈🐶🐶🐔🐮🐣🐓🙏
Morgan, you need Spring Snare Trap, which Shawn Woods reviewed on his channel 5 months ago. It used to be called "Mousetrap Monday." Shawn collects antique and new tra0s for mice, rats, and voles. 😉👍💙🕊❤
was happy to see the waterfowl being waterfowl ~ makes me a touch sad that they have no swimming in the summer ~ thats where they love to live ~ on the water ~ tres natural
Try jiffy corn muffin mix and baking soda in a container with a side hole. Supposed to work like a charm.
Heads up man this year is a double cicada year expect to see a truly remarkable number of rats cicadas are one of their favorite foods which means they basically have infinite food to reproduce with this year.
It should be a bird bonanza too, amirite?
@ 0:27 People have Hired " Goats and Sheep " to rid them of Weed Problems ! Enter The " Rat Terriers" These Mighty Beasts, " Custom made for the Occasion " ! / Yes they Will " Remedy the Situation " and Good Food [ And Affection ] will be their " Compensation " !
I had a dog I was looking after sit on a glue trap! SO much trouble getting the dog clean again! And it was a bulldog with a light coat! I don't want to think of the job I would have had, had the dog been fluffier! Make sure your dogs can't accidentally stumble on them, Morgan!
I love that you named the rat!
In New York City, that's a normal-sized rat.
Rats both on Morgan's farm and in NYC have a lot of food to eat. It's hard to blame the rat for finding a rat heaven in which the traps, so far, are jokes.
I had a similar situation but the rat tunnels were inside my run under the cement pad for the coop. I would fill in the holes in the day and they would redig them overnight. I had no luck with snap traps or cage traps. I put out 50/50 mix of jiffy corn bread mix and baking soda in a pan and I saw footprints in so I know they found it. I also stuffed unwrapped sticks of Juicy Fruit gum in the holes. Not sure which did it but I haven't had them return for over a year.
What does that 50/50 mix do?
It took me 4 days to live capture a blind squirrel in my backyard. Keep at it.
Nestle Crunch Bar bait for your traps. I used to manage movie theatres years ago. Whenever we had a rodent problem crop up, regardless of whatever selection of delicious candies and other attractants we had in the storeroom, the only thing they would pursue were Nestle Crunch Bars. Rodents demand it. You won't regret it.
That’s not a rat, that’s a small dog
Just an idea but seeing as you lock up the weird chickens in their hut at night, how about leaving their run gate open without traps and see if Tobi and Abby tackle the rat or even the cats? Maybe cause the cats don’t have access to their run they may not show interest? And I also think that the peanut butter attracting Abby and Tobi may deter the rat from coming out. You can clearly tell how it elegant rats are, that rat knows peanut butter = traps maybe even try another bait? Much love from Canada!!! ❤️🇨🇦😎👍
If you left the door open overnight, either the dogs or the cats would take care of it. Probably the dogs - they are onto him, and he would be a hearty midnight snack. I have no experience with Maremma, but Pyrenees are excellent hunters. They are patient, good at setting up an ambush, and will relentlessly pursue a snack item. We don't have barn cats, and have few rodent issues. You'll see them trotting through the grass, stop, cock their head a few times, do a fox jump, scarf something down and continue on their way. Our dogs even get moles and gophers, by either snatching them out of the ground when they are near the surface, or digging trenches to expose the entire tunnel system and corner the gopher. Sad story: Our neighbor poisoned the gophers where he kept horses. An Owl caught a poisoned gopher and fed it to the owl babies. The dead owl baby was pushed out of the tree. My dog ate the baby owl, and nearly bled to death when she had spay surgery a few days later. A dog that loves horses and snatches gophers out of the ground.
I've got nothing productive to add to this conversation but just wanna say that rat trap reminded me of Tom and Jerry snd i really hope we get a Gold Shaw Farm cartoon someday featuring all the cast
Doggies need a groom
2:20 Chicken: And I took that personally
The reason you are having trouble with the glue trap is probably outside temperature. The glue thickens in colder weather. If you take it into a warmer room to pull apart, it should separate easier. Rats tend to run along walls for protection. I have a huge rat problem, but I'm in Texas, so it's a constant battle. Rat snakes help, but they also go after eggs, pullets and even took out a full-grown hen once. Just broke up a nest last week on a shelf in the henhouse. But most of the nests are in the walls of my barn room in the main barn. I hear them running across the roof of my barn every night. And they have chewed holes in my PEX water lines under the house. I think I have cleared out the nests in my greenhouse. Last year, they stripped my citrus trees and hibiscus.
We had what turned out to be one Florida Tree Rat and four house mice in our attic. The old wooden snap traps were the only ones that worked - we just had to get a really big one for the rat. The plastic ones just don't do the job. Organic peanut butter drew them to the traps really well though!
Those traps don't kill the rat, they often can get themselves out of them. I think it's for liability reasons they they don't snap as hard as they used to
Sometimes you have to quarantine the broody hen, put her in a separate pen (maybe the weird chicken coop?) for a few days, and then she'll be unbroody
You need Shawn Woods, inventor of the best mouse/rat trap and creator of Mousetrap Mondays here on YT. He designed a blid for 5 gallon buckets to trap & drown them.
Morgan, would you consider introducing new barn cats ? Maybe Pablo and Jinny can't handle that amount of work by themselves
In one April Fools video, he announced that he was going to get tigers for the farm. That would duly do in the rats. The problem is that it would also do in all the other critters.
Did you read the directions as to how to separate the sticky trap. Haven’t you learned to buy 2 of everything? One to brake and one to utilize
Look up Joseph Carter the Mink Man.❤
Hey Morgan. Here’s a suggestion. I’ve been hunting rats in our garden for a while and have had success mostly with the old school wood traps. Rats like running the perimeter be it a fence or wall. They will come out into the open like in your video but they are suspicious little critters. For your issue, I’d either mound up a little dirt around the hole or use something to funnel the free loader where you want him to go. Place the trap against the wall of you chicken coop right at the end of the funnel area. This will allow the rat to come out and be directed to your trap. Anyway, good luck. Wife and I are fans of your channel and hope to be doing something similar in the near future. Keep up the good work and all the videos.
Rats are smart. Become the rat, grasshopper 🦗
Oh, the drama. Fits I had too much wine.
Love those weird chickens. Are you going to get more? (I hope so)
Rinnetrap's Flip N Slide bucket trap is great & can be a live & kill trap. An American Company with a great product for around $20. Just need a 5 gallon bucket.
It seems like Abby dog spooks the rat….🤷🏻♀️
I miss my old black cat. She was holy terror on all animals that were smaller than her including rats that came from my neighbors yard. It got to a point where she got bored nothing wanted to come into the yard she started to chase things into the yard just so she could catch them
Give Joseph the mink man a call. Ironically he employs pack hunting methods.
Capitan, I think you are gonna need a bigger cat!
Have you ever tried the electronic traps. I use them in my home for mice and they are AMAZING! They make rat sized ones and Id have to imagine they are just as effective.
Peanutbutter isn't that good of bait. They have a sweet tooth smear Nutella on the traps. They can't resist the call of chocolate. Just keep it away from the dogs.
Dont use the glue traps, man. Theyre horrificly cruel and also insanely dangerous for your chickens. Plus, you DO NOT want to have to try and get that trab out of toby, abby, or pablo fur. Please, just use the snap traps if you are going to use kill traps.
I mean he said in the video he never uses them but because this rat is so smart it keeps not being fooled by the normal rat traps. He also locks the chicken door and gate so only the rat can get to the traps. It's not the most humane solution but like he said he might not have a choice if the normal traps don't work (and he messed up setting the glue trap up anyways lol)
The glue traps are of no danger in the Weird Chicken™ enclosure by night. The cats, dogs, and even chickens, are kept out of it.
My mouse on a glue pad chewed his way off of it
I do see your point but he did say in the video he hated glue traps. He is just doing it in the best interest for all his animals
Happy Thursday Morgan
Your He cows are funny . Loved it ," ALL 🦆 🦆🦆 DUCKS GO TO BED ' and they all march to the tune . Well Farmer 0 rat 3 . Good luck FARMer Morgan . To be continued? 🤣🤣🤣