Per Jessen wrote:

Aaron Kulkis wrote:

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Rodents are a real sanitation problem, even when they aren't carrying disease-infested parasites.

Now we are defintely going OT :-)

A rat infestation is a problem that needs dealing with, but rodents are not generally a sanitation problem.

Dried rodent droppings turn to dust, and then can cause some nasty lung infections. I can't remember the name of the particular virus, but there's no medications to treat it (antibiotics don't work against viruses, only bacteria and the like).

We have mice in our kompost-containers, probably 3-4 families, maybe 30-40 in total. They move in after harvest (a while ago by now), and pretty much live off our bio-degradable waste.

In the trash..that's not a problem... there's enough moisture to keep the rat droppings from turning to dusty powder AND they powdered dust isn't inside an enclosed housing structure. And...the argument can be made that the rats are speeding up the biodegradation process.

In return the local cats live off them :-)

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