Pest Control (rats/mice)
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Agree with @Snowy I was given one and they are totally fucking useless. I have even seen a rat sit on one Fucking hate the bastards Fat cat seems to be the best deterrent
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@dogmeat not really keen to chuck my cats up in amongst the pink bats...but I cant wait for the rats to get cancer from breathign in the fibres from the pink bats either!
Video last night I have better idea where they are, but they is loving the poison, just hope they fuck off to die, unlike the one a couple of weeks ago that I found dead up there.
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@taniwharugby you need the right poison. Clever little fuckers. They will learn to avoid poison if they link a death with it so need a slow acting. Why the anti-coagulants (disgusting though they are) work well. Plus no smell
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@dogmeat they love this one I been getting, ignore the other one, ignoring the peanut butter in the traps too...
Werent so keen on this one
but love this one
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@taniwharugby said in Pest Control (rats/mice):
@dogmeat they love this one I been getting, ignore the other one, ignoring the peanut butter in the traps too...
Werent so keen on this one
but love this one
Go to PGG Wrightsons or RD1/Farmsource for different varieties
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@taniwharugby I buy mine from a Pest Control co. Wear gloves to set the baits as they will avoid it (so I was told) if they smell humans. I buy a tub at a time. They love it so much that they knawed into the last tub and cleared it out.
Haven't (touch wood0 seen a rodent since
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@dogmeat said in Pest Control (rats/mice):
Wear gloves to set the baits as they will avoid it (so I was told) if they smell humans
yeah directons on back of box says to wear gloves.
So far looks like a solo one, maybe a pair (have caught juveniles in trap) up there, but would prefer none at all given I know the damage they can do to wiring and anything else they gnaw on, and also that insurers dont cover rodent damage (only resultant - say a fire from chewing wires)
What the name of the product you use?
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@taniwharugby said in Pest Control (rats/mice):
ignoring the peanut butter in the traps too...
I think that is chocolate for rats. Peanut butter for mice.
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@taniwharugby Contrac - the active ingredient is Bromadiolone.
You're using Brodifacoum (most commonly called Talon). I didn't get as good a result with Talon but it could just be what the local nest(s) are partial to I guess.
I use bait stations as I know that they just as harmful to mammals and birds as they are to rodents.
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@dogmeat in my roof other mammals and birds ain't an issue...although I have seen a bug that 'flies' about up there triggering the motion sensor, possibly a clicker bug (am sure you know what I mean) as they often get in the down light fittings and make a racket Haha
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great, went up to put the fans in the roof for the winter, and was a very distinct smell of somethign dead... have an old GoPro-type camera with no infra red on it, so looking at fitting a light I have to the extendable selfie stick that came with it and do a bit of a search in the soffit that I struggle to get near enough to due to the roof...which will be a painful exercise searching and then watching (probably to find the body either the 1st place I went to, or where I probably cant reach anyway...)
