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I live in the Ozarks as well (Bull Shoals Lake), and we come across some pretty hefty ones. The biggest ones I've come across though, were on my relatives' farms in Randolph County when I was growing up. The corn fields had black rats that easily ran 7-9 ft.
Around here, we get calls about people losing eggs, chicks, and full chickens, and we've not had trouble identifying the big black rat that's responsible. The best was a couple of summers ago, when one got INTO the chicken coop and ate so many little chicks that he was too fat to make it back out!
Here's a picture of a little 6-footer that the dog sniffed out of one of our bushes in the yard.
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