Bromadiolone secondary poisoning

[algerville]

Help! We have been having some trouble with mice in our barn and were at our local feed supply store getting chicken feed and they sold us contrac (you put the pellets into a shoebox with a little hole and the mice eat it and die). Bromadiolone is the main ingredient.
I didn't think about this til a week later I saw a chicken running around with a live mouse in its beak. That may be ...that mouse could be poisoned and could cause the bird harm. No birds have died but I immediately picked up the baits and threw them away.
I have one bird acting slow..but looks fine and so I'm concerned about her and egg consumption. We have been eating the eggs ..does anyone have experience with this? The Internet is not helping much. Just says give birds vitamin k

 

[Eggcessive]

That product has been used a long time, and was recommended by other BYC people. I used Just One Bite brand a long time ago when we had a few rats from a nearby pond getting into my coop. Many said it was one of the safer products in case a chicken, dog or cat ate the rodent that had eaten the poison. I always kept the poison outside the coop and free range area, and after 7 rats were killed, we didn’t have a problem. They had burrowed into my coop floor. We kept some in the locked bait traps thereafter, but had no mire issues. There are other brand names of it now, and it works. I hope that your chickens are okay. Most mice or rats are after spilled feed in and around the coop and run. Some rats though will bite toes off of chicks. Keeping feed put away until daylight, and cleanliness helps. Sometimes it hard to decide which is worse, the danger of the rodents or the poison.

 

[Themellowyellows]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock

Shoot, just realized eggcessive already posted. Sorry eggcessive for mentioning you again

 

[Eggcessive]

I doubt that her eggs would be a problem. She could be acting slow from another issue, such as the heat, reproductive or crop problem. Now is the time that many will start to see molting, and that is a time when we see more problems. Consider using old fashioned mouse traps sat inside a wire dog crate where you are seeing mice. Miniature Snickers bars can be cut up and small pieces shoved into the bait holder so they are hard to get out. I have had the best luck with those, and they can be cleaned with hot water from a faucet, and reloaded easily.