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When dealing with pests of stored items
(feeds, farm produce, etc), a lot of ideas and methods comes to mind as loss to
storage pests, especially rodents can sometimes be devastating. A poultry
farmer in a farm settlement narrated how he was able to deal with rodents in
his store. His ordeal was a very fascinated way of using the biological method
– CAT. Let’s not forget that biological pest control is a technique of
controlling pests by using other organisms. Cat is a natural enemy of rats and
mice.
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The farmer ruled out the idea of using poison. He discovered that the rodents
usually contaminate the poultry feeds after ingesting the poison and this resulted
in the death of his turkeys some years before he introduced the cat in which he.
The technique he used was to partly feed the cat during the day so that it can
hunt effectively at night.
This method actually has its own setback.
Culturally, it is believed that if a cat feed on the leftover of rat/mouse or
vice versa, it brings about some sort of connection between the two, and the cat
cannot do anything to the rat. Interesting you think! So to avoid
this, the farmer changes the cat periodically.
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Cat, of course, is the number one enemy of
any rodent. The presence of the cat alone scare away the rodents. But if the
rodent happens to be a big one and fight back, the cat might be injured. The
method used by the farmer in this article was effective to him because he
changed his cats periodically.
Or what do you think is a better
biological method of controlling storage pests?
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