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[tellynpeep]

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Depends on exactly which rodent bait/poison you use. Working in veterinary medicine for nearly 3 decades, I've seen plenty of dogs poisoned (many killed) by warfarin-type poisons. Make sure you keep this well away from dogs and cats! And remember the rats/mice/chipmunks will move the pieces and make caches of it (thinking it is food.) If the cache is inside the coop, your birds will eat it. I would prefer to use the large blocks, which they have to gnaw pieces off, instead of the granules.

Please be careful with this stuff!

 

[nanaluvsgps]

I spent nearly a year being out-smarted by rats in my barn. I was determined to not use poison since I have a couple of barn cats, so I looked into every 'non poison' suggestion.
1. mothballs down the hole - nearly gagged me to death and even if I filled the holes back in, they just pushed them back open and scattered the balls around the hole
2. aquarium gravel - the idea was that it couldn't pack and would trap and suffocate.... made real colorful decorations all around the barn when they pushed it out of their holes
3. spring traps - nearly lost a finger... caught the horse 2x... lost a LOT of bait
4. glue traps - had gotten so desperate by this time that I turned a few upside down, shoved them down the holes and back filled them.. thinking 'All right you little buggers, let's see you dig your way out without getting your whole back stuck!" - they all got pushed back out, I had to shave one off of the horse.
Several months into this little adventure, I temporarily lost my mind and decided to pour some old antifreeze down the holes and then fill them back up again..... as far as I could tell it had zero effect.
5. decon down the hole - never heard from them again.

 

[nanaluvsgps]

I spent nearly a year being out-smarted by rats in my barn. I was determined to not use poison since I have a couple of barn cats, so I looked into every 'non poison' suggestion.
1. mothballs down the hole - nearly gagged me to death and even if I filled the holes back in, they just pushed them back open and scattered the balls around the hole
2. aquarium gravel - the idea was that it couldn't pack and would trap and suffocate.... made real colorful decorations all around the barn when they pushed it out of their holes
3. spring traps - nearly lost a finger... caught the horse 2x... lost a LOT of bait
4. glue traps - had gotten so desperate by this time that I turned a few upside down, shoved them down the holes and back filled them.. thinking 'All right you little buggers, let's see you dig your way out without getting your whole back stuck!" - they all got pushed back out, I had to shave one off of the horse.
Several months into this little adventure, I temporarily lost my mind and decided to pour some old antifreeze down the holes and then fill them back up again..... as far as I could tell it had zero effect.
5. decon down the hole - never heard from them again.

 

[nanaluvsgps]

I spent nearly a year being out-smarted by rats in my barn. I was determined to not use poison since I have a couple of barn cats, so I looked into every 'non poison' suggestion.
1. mothballs down the hole - nearly gagged me to death and even if I filled the holes back in, they just pushed them back open and scattered the balls around the hole
2. aquarium gravel - the idea was that it couldn't pack and would trap and suffocate.... made real colorful decorations all around the barn when they pushed it out of their holes
3. spring traps - nearly lost a finger... caught the horse 2x... lost a LOT of bait
4. glue traps - had gotten so desperate by this time that I turned a few upside down, shoved them down the holes and back filled them.. thinking 'All right you little buggers, let's see you dig your way out without getting your whole back stuck!" - they all got pushed back out, I had to shave one off of the horse.
Several months into this little adventure, I temporarily lost my mind and decided to pour some old antifreeze down the holes and then fill them back up again..... as far as I could tell it had zero effect.
5. decon down the hole - never heard from them again.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I used tom cat and so far the holes are not being dug up anymore.

 

[canesisters]

Decon is a name brand of common rat poison. Hated to go to it. I was actually ok with the little buggers 'sharing' the feed that the horse dropped... and was even willing to let it go when they chewed a little hole in her feed bucket to make the feed fall out faster.... but when I found rat poo in her bucket - that was the last straw!

Quote:Whats decon, i have the same problems and nothing not even bait is killing them.

 

[50-45-1]

canesisters - have you ever tried the bucket trap? That is the one I will be doing as soon as I get all the parts together. (the one that's missing is the coat hanger - go figure)

The bucket trap made with a 5 gallon bucket is a mouse trap. It will not work for rats.