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Something I tried to keep rodent odor down.

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I was speaking to my Mom the other day and was telling her about the amonia smell that emits from the rodents within my rat barn.
She suggested that I simply filled a water bowl with vinegar and place it in the barn (10X12ft barn).
Well, it worked, and worked very quickly.

I just wanted to share that with y'all.
 
Here's what I do. Mix about 8 drops of imitation vanilla in an 8 oz water bottle and mix baking soda in the shavings. It knocks down the smell so much that they're hardly noticeable. I only have about 100 breeder mice and a few rats so it's not a lot, compared to what it sounds like you have. Also if you have an automatic watering system the vanilla mucks the hoses up so don't use it in that. (Did it at work, disaster!)
 
I put cat litter in the bottom of my pans for my rats and mice and it helps alot.. but i will also try the baking soda i never considered that...
 
Karen Hulvey said:
Here's what I do. Mix about 8 drops of imitation vanilla in an 8 oz water bottle and mix baking soda in the shavings. It knocks down the smell so much that they're hardly noticeable. I only have about 100 breeder mice and a few rats so it's not a lot, compared to what it sounds like you have. Also if you have an automatic watering system the vanilla mucks the hoses up so don't use it in that. (Did it at work, disaster!)
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So you put the vanilla extract in the water bottles they drink from right?

I'll have to add that to 5 gallon buckets.

Thanks for the advice Karen!!
 
Oopps I just saw the water system disaster!!!

I also use bleach; about a cap full in a 5 gal bucket of water. Maybe the bleach would totally cut the vanilla out. Might not be worth it, but that damn biofilm that forms in the water heads suck.
 
John,
Ever since I started using a cap full of bleach in each 5 gallon bucket I haven't had to clean one single nozzle.
It's damn near impossible to clean them out when they do get all that biofilm in them.
 
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