Rat poison gone, now what?

[Naser]

Get sewer pipes 4 or 3 inch in diameter, block them in one side with a water proof plug, put rat poison in them, tie them to a fence or something, label them rat poison then protect the open end with rain water.
You need a game camera or Blink XT to know more about your rat problem.
Rat proof feeders go long way in preventing rodent infestation.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

It takes a week or two for the vermin to get accustomed to and start eating from bait boxes. Place them in corners and natural routes the rats/mice will travel.

Don't discount them, they do work. Once you've rid the area of rodents the bait boxes are your means of stopping reinfestation. You'll see no or little use of the bait then suddenly it's all gone in a matter of a week. This usually occurs in late fall and in Spring when rodents are on the move looking for new homes.

 

[cottontail farm]

Well, success. I'll be diligent about the bait boxes from here on out. I do my best with cleaning up feed but chickens do scatter some. The rat went into the garbage can.

 

[David61]

bucket traps with the bait poison. I hate the smell of a dead rat you can't find. The poison is blood thinner. It takes a little while to kill them. It doesn't just drop them dead. A healthy rat can jump out of most buckets or garbage cans. A poisoned rat is not. Water bucket traps and poison for infestation until the body count drops.

 

[pibb]

Bromethalin is a neurotoxin with no antidote and usually kills within 24-36 hours. You should know by tomorrow evening if your chickens eat any or not. Bromethalin works faster than the other types of rat poisons which are basically blood thinners.

 

[cmom]

We have rats tunneling everywhere out in the chicken yard and underneath the coop (the coop is elevated and they are tunneling under the runners that are the base) they have been ignoring the bait in the tamper-proof trap so last night I got disgusted and placed bait blocks all around the perimeter of the coop base. The bait blocks are like 1 inch square and 3 inches long.
This morning all NINE of them are totally gone. I assume I killed every rat within a square mile?
Now what? Will they die underground? Or will they come out and die later? I want to make sure the chickens dont get to the bodies.
Thanks so much for any advice. First time with a rat problem here. Ugh.

If the whole bars were gone it might not have been rats. That happened to me too so I put one of my game cameras out in the barn. This is what I saw and after doing some research found that they are immune to rat poison.

 

[cottontail farm]

If the whole bars were gone it might not have been rats. That happened to me too so I put one of my game cameras out in the barn. This is what I saw and after doing some research found that they are immune to rat poison.
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Yep. We have those here too. Stinkers. However the dead rat gives me hope. I've shoveled flat all of the holes and will check tomorrow to see if they reappear.

 

[cottontail farm]

Bromethalin is a neurotoxin with no antidote and usually kills within 24-36 hours. You should know by tomorrow evening if your chickens eat any or not. Bromethalin works faster than the other types of rat poisons which are basically blood thinners.

I set them out after locking up the birds for the night and removed the few crumbs in the morning. So here's hoping not.

 

[Dougdilman]

My grandparents set up rat poison in a nearby shed once, The rats got in the floor of their house and died. We had to tare the floor up and it was awefull
its also bad because someones cat could eat the poisoned mouse or rat

 

[aart]

I set them out after locking up the birds for the night and removed the few crumbs in the morning. So here's hoping not.

Saw a vid the other day, Mouse Trap Monday guy used some 'safe' bait, recorded their activity over a huge bait pile nightly for a week, then dug up the tunnels to find the dead rats.