Dead rats and secondary poisoning?

[Howard E]

The product you used was probably something like this..........

https://www.amazon.com/MOTOMCO-Tomc...=1544291344&sr=8-1&keywords=tomcat+place+pacs

If a person had pets or children around, probably best to avoid using packet products like this. Pets could find and eat them, plus rats in particular will drag them around to places where you didn't leave them. That would be a likely way for pets to find and eat the poison themselves.

When pets and other animals are a concern, far better to use the bait blocks served up from inside secure bait stations. Entry to the bait stations is limited to critters like rats and mice and the blocks are pinned into place inside the station, so rats can't drag them out to scatter around.

Bait used can be the same, only the form it is presented changes.....and when in doubt, I'd go the safety route.

 

[Howard E]

But advocacy for the use of bait wasn't the purpose of this thread. This one continues to seek evidence of secondary poisoning of animals exposed to dead rats and mice.

 

[Moriaheva]

When dealing with rats, a concern of some over the use of poison bait blocks is the risk of secondary poisoning by pets and other if they find and then eat a rat that died from the poison.

Does anyone have actual experience where this has happened? A confirmed case where a dog, cat, chicken or other has actually been harmed from this? If so, please describe in detail how it happened.

We just lost 6 chickens from eating poisoned rats. Found 2 rats that were poisoned. I buried them but not deep enough. The chickens dug them up and were eating them. Lost 3 chickens immediately and 3 more that got sick and had to put them down.

 

[Moriaheva]

We just lost 6 chickens from eating poisoned rats. Found 2 rats that were poisoned. I buried them but not deep enough. The chickens dug them up and were eating them. Lost 3 chickens immediately and 3 more that got sick and had to put them down.

We don’t use poison for rats. Somebody in the neighborhood is using it. We’re gonna put flyers out in the neighborhood because we’re not the only ones around that have chickens right now. Evidently there is a rat poison that can be used. That is OK for Chickens. Looking into it.

 

[Molpet]

We just lost 6 chickens from eating poisoned rats. Found 2 rats that were poisoned. I buried them but not deep enough. The chickens dug them up and were eating them. Lost 3 chickens immediately and 3 more that got sick and had to put them down.

Sorry for your losses
If you find out what kind let me know.
And if the rodent will eat it. I bought some that was supposed to be safer. I had to buy something different when there's a DZ mice run when I walk in the room.
Used to be bucket and snap traps took care of them. But it got out of control this year.

Eta stuff they didn't want to eat.
https://www.belllabs.com/products/us/pest-control/terad3-blox/