04 January 2014
Today is the first day that the dear wife has gone shopping whilst I’ve stayed home to work on some bits and pieces.
Firstly we have noticed some rats coming into our garden from the neighbours or the railway. They’re around because the chickens are not the tidiest of eaters and I think they’ve found some scraps that the chickens have disguarded from their coop.
There are two problems that need to be solved here
preventing the scraps from finding their way out of the coop
moving the rats along
For the first part I can attach a sheet of wood to the outside of the coop, kind of like a sneeze screen. This would limit their view of the world though so perspex would be better.
For the latter problem I’ve errected what used to be a "hospital cage" that we’d put sick birds into to prevent harming the rest of the flock. This cage will hold some half dozen rat traps. I’ve placed this near to where the rats have been seen.
Once that was complete I fixed the shower head that the dear wife pointed out has become leaky then got on with some code.