Rat dropping from poisoned rats.

[theharve01]

I had a question related to rats that i cant get an asnwer on. I was wondering if anyone knows the answer for sure. I put poison out due to the high numbers in the field from when i had my xmas turkeys. Now ive started seeing the blue droppings in the field. My hens have access near the field. Is tge blue just the die. And all the poison had been induced by the rat. Or would there still be any poison in them droppings that could harm the hens. I dont like to use poison. But i need to get the verman number back to normal going into The summer. Thanks. Please no hate mail over the use of poison.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If the rats ate the poison, I don't see any reason why there wouldn't be poison in the droppings.
What goes in must come out. I don't think the digestive tract is that discerning.

 

[azygous]

No lecture because you already understand the risk of using the rat poison. When you see the blue dye, you understand already that it signifies the possibility that poison is still present in the droppings.

I don't think you need us to draw your conclusions for you.

 

[Ted Brown]

Not a direct answer to your questions but I think you can deduce that there is a risk to your chickens. Note that secondary poisoning from animals eating dead rat carcasses is a well documented problem; seems logical to conclude that their droppings may be poisonous as well.

https://www.ratcontroltricks.com/rat-poison/

 

[IamRainey]

Not a direct answer to your questions but I think you can deduce that there is a risk to your chickens. Note that secondary poisoning from animals eating dead rat carcasses is a well documented problem; seems logical to conclude that their droppings may be poisonous as well.

https://www.ratcontroltricks.com/rat-poison/

AMEN! One of our local mountain lions recently died from eating a poisoned vermin. He was breeding stock and many many times the size of the squirrel or rat or whatever that he ate but it was still enough residual anti-coagulant to do him in.

Tragic!

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mountain-lion-dies-rat-poison-20190430-story.html

 

[hayley3]

I had mice so bad, despite having a family of snakes during the summer that I also had to use poison. I debated 6 yrs before using poison before it became a last resort. I mean they took over and damaged everything in my 30x40 garage and were making my barn so unsanitary that you could smell the mice urine. It was almost like a disney movie with mice hanging from the rafters. Until you have experienced that you truly cannot understand how bad rodents can get. I had to clean massive amounts of poop out of my kitchen pantry on a weekly basis and they were eating stuff behind my walls. I only used it during the winter because I didn't want to injure the snakes and it was locked in a box so that no other animals could get to it. If there was another option I would've taken it.

 

[Ralph Obrien]

I my self have never lost any bird in this way . I have free range chickens ducks and geese . I also use poison as last resort .

 

[hayley3]

I have since moved...but obviously the mice there had no predators to reach the numbers that I was experiencing.

 

[Ralph Obrien]

I had the same trouble but it was rats many many rat

 

[hayley3]

I had the same trouble but it was rats many many rat

That would be petrifying. At least mice are small.