Why do chickens get the blame!

[Helgalush]

If you're using the plastic sort with a lid you can put narrow holed wire mesh on the bottom of the compost bins. The worms can still get in to do their work but it'll keep rats and mice out

Thanks for that, great idea.

[lottielady]

I have had this conversation with a neighbour this week, she knocked on my door and said she had just seen a rat leave my garden and go through my neighbours. i pointed out that food is stored inside, the feeder bought in at night, two bait boxes and a sonic plug in the shed and nothing in the compost bin. She then looked at my garage to which I pointed out that it had been cleared the weekend before and also contains a sonic plug. I also then said that we had called the rat man two years ago before chickens and they were living in a neighbours compost bin. I am paranoid about being blamed for them but I have to now accept that I have done all I can to avoid the problem but living in towns with compost bins and my garden backs onto two rows of bungalows whose gardens join and goodness knows how many bird tables, rabbits and guinea pigs and decking which is a favourite place to live that it is a fact of life. What I do find funny though is how she thought it was my rat as it had come from my garden the thought had not occurred that it may have been passing through, and as was said earlier no one turns down the eggs.