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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

GIVE RODENTS THE BOOT: HOW TO BANISH RATS AND MICE FROM YOUR BARN

By Cynthia McFarland, Courtesy of Farnam

If you have horses, you usually have rodents. Whether you see them or not. “People will tell me, ‘I have barn cats, so I don’t have mice,’ but rodents are nocturnal, so you don’t normally see them,” notes Bill Warner, senior specialty product development manager at Farnam.

“Rats and mice have a faster generation time (birth to maturity) than many insects, so they can have several generations in a year, which can lead to a lot of rodents,” says Warner.

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