okay does flour and baking soda really get rid of rodents
hey folks i'm gonna try it i'm willing to try anything stay tuned
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hey welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen i have
a problem my problem is uh a rodent is devastating my garden crop let me
show you here is my lettuce bed and there is a rodent hole now not only is the creature eating
my lettuce it also ate all the peas off of this pea vine which was a special pea it was the last
one and the only one i got to grow and i was using it for a seed crop it was the purple pod
p which was a gift from a friend in canada so i now have zero pea pods uh here's the evidence
of the purple pods yeah they were literally purple but now it pulled down the vine and
ate all the peas out of the pods it was gonna be my seed crop now it's time for war
this critter or these critters have to go so for this concoction i found it on
um youtube i'm gonna use a half cup of flour and a half cup of baking soda and i'm going
to put it in this container but i'm going to modify the lid let's get it into the container
i'm mixing it up really good now for the lid i'm gonna cut a hole in
it
now let's go put this over by that hole
now the reason why i put the hole in the lid and put this on its side this way is because i
sprinkle and irrigate the garden with a sprinkler and i'll be irrigating tonight but i don't want
the flower to get wet so i put it on its side facing that direction because my sprinkler is
going to be over here and the contents won't get wet and soggy so uh hopefully this will be okay
and the rat whatever it is that's eating my crops will come in and eat the baking soda and the flour
now the concept of the baking soda and the flour is well the flour that the rodents will eat flour
and you uh some people are adding a little bit of sugar like a tablespoon of sugar to sweeten
the dale no pun intended but the baking soda gets in their intestines and when they go good drink
water it bubbles up creates a lot of gas and it perforates the gastrointestinal system and they
eventually die this is going to take like three four days so i'm going to keep this stocked over
three or four days but to see if it's effective or and even to identify what creature is in here
i'm gonna use my trail camera and we're gonna find out exactly what's going on
hopefully that'll work
what do you think
so i've got the same problem in the barn and my tractor barn uh
and around the chicken coop so i've got some lids here and i'm going to make four concoctions and
we're going to distribute them around and give these critters a run for their money
we're just doing half a cup of uh each that way it's just i don't waste a lot of it
you sprinkle some flour over the top of that
because i think the baking soda has like a salty taste and these rodents are after salt
i don't know let's try it what does baking soda taste like by itself
yeah salty kind of have that salty flavor so the rodents will like the saltiness of it we're
not going to add sugar to it but now we're just going to take it and distribute it among the uh
barn the tractor barn and the chicken coop
we're just going to slide the first one right under here that way it stays clean and dry
also slide one under the bunny bungalow put one right here
and we'll put another one over here among the rodent turds here in the barn
okay we got them all distributed yeah those rodents are tearing this
up yeah they're destructive they're getting in here and peeing and pooping all over everything
so i'll be back in about oh three to five days and we'll continue this video so stay tuned
i will be right back in a video second to you guys okay now it's time to check out the
results of laying out the baited traps or that baking soda and flour mixture for the rodents
let's go see in the garden what the trail cams picked up
it does it appears that something has been tasting it uh
but nothing's been eating my lettuce that's a good thing as long as the lettuce isn't being at
uh so let's check out the images from the trail cam uh it captured a little bird in the bird
doesn't seem at least bit interested in what's inside of that cottage cheese container it's
just after the bugs and grubs that are in the soil good little bird yeah we need those in the garden
oh my god is that a rat or a mouse okay it's big i think it's rat
okay now that we've got that solved and they did take the bait they ate it
keeping my fingers crossed that it's taking an effect on them i'm leaving this bait out here
i'm actually going to make some more of these bait traps because they are effective at keeping
the water off the flower and the baking soda because i do have to water the garden and uh
the other ones let's go check out the other ones and see if there's any activity on them at all
yeah chickens are so hot they're resting in the uh shade look at them and there's my babies
poor hot it's 112 degrees outside so let's see what we've got under here yes
the rat has taken advantage of it yes
and now we go under the bunny bungalow and what do we see here yep the rodent has been here too
hope i get them all and now the tractor born i put it over here underneath of the uh
generator
it even left a turd holy moly yep they been in there die you suckers let's go check the barn out
oh yeah the evidence is all over it they've been munching on that that's a good thing
look what those rodents did to my door they tore it up
now let's grab the trail cam and see what we captured out here score we got a mouse yep
and that sucker partook and we have a couple rats out here too so we're gonna get him
we're gonna get him out of here and take care of this rodent population around the homestead
bad nasty creatures horrible i'm sure they have their place in in the environment but oh please
not here i'm gonna go put the uh chip on the computer and include it with this episode so
you guys can see what i was just looking at up there anyway uh the verdict not sure yet
but we know that the rodents are taking care of it and we know that baking soda has a reaction
with their gastrointestinal system they get the baking soda flour in there and they drink water
and the baking soda causes a lot of bubbling and then they burst their gut asunder
yeah we're gonna cause them to meet their greedy little demise oh hopefully there will
be a i'll clean up the turds and i'll set up my bait and then we'll see if there's more turds
in a three-day period around the bay if there is then we still have quite a colony to get rid of if
there isn't then we've we finished our job and the product does work i will come back with an
update on this in a future show i'm going to go ahead and wrap this episode up but as far as does
baking soda and flour work i'm going to reserve my opinion until a later show and you guys will
hear the final conclusion of what i found on my homestead who knows these mice could be olympic
mice and immune to everything we'll see i'm your host jerry hansen this is pine meadows hobby
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cooled house it's 112 and rising um yeah it's not even 5 o'clock yet we reached the peak yesterday
of 112 at five o'clock it's only right now 10 after four it's hot i'm gonna go hydrate and cool
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