If you don’t want rattlesnakes on the property, you need to control food, shelter, and access. That can be a challenge with the varieity of rodents living nearby. But, there’s a lot you can do to permanently remove rodent burrow networks WITHOUT paying for it, using traps, or poison.
Here’s what I do at my own property to keep rodents and rattlesnakes away from my office.
- Step 1: Use a garden hose to flood the hole. Use low pressure, maybe just a quarter turn, to avoid collapsing the entrance of the burrow
- Step 2: Let it fill slowly from the bottom up. When it fills, let it settle, then repeat as necessary until water it is entirely full.
- Step 3: Kick in (or use a shovel) the entrance. That’s it!
By doing this, anything living in there is forced to leave. Not only that, but the entire network, including all those dry, warm spaces where rodents were using, are destroyed.