Thread: Mice. Heaps of bloody mice.

Originally Posted by time out

If you get desperate and decide to feed them some poison – make sure you give them a one feed killer – not something that will keep them fat and happy. If rat numbers seem to be getting away – we occasionally give them a feed of Contrac – a one feed rat killer. But as rat numbers drop off – the Contrac blocks can sit around in the Philproof mini bait stations – then the mice move in and stay dry, warm and well feed – mouse shit turns blue, but they just run away when I turn the bait station over. They are small animals and just can’t eat enough of the active poisonous ingredient to kill them.
My pest control advisor told me to use First Strike – a one feed killer – a little more expensive than Contrac – but it works. Key Industries is a great supplier - https://keyindustries.co.nz/View-A-P...5#ProductRange
I have got seven mouse traps set around the kitchen, laundry and garage – got a couple but more will be back as the weather gets wet and cold.

In the garages we seem to do okay with No Rats & Mice blocks. You can see when might have been eating it because they leave a fine dust, whereas rats leave bigger pieces if anything. If I put out fresh blocks in the knowledge there are some resident mice inside, within a week they are all dead and I find their carcasses in the dark corners and under the bench. (And inside the freezer control panel.) Occasionally I will find a nearly dead one staggering about.

I’ll read up on your suggestions and see what the risks are for by-kill and danger to dogs. I’m very fond of our moreporks, for example, And wouldn’t want to use something that could potentially knock them on the head if they ate a recently poisoned mouse.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I’ll read up on your suggestions and see what the risks are for by-kill and danger to dogs. I’m very fond of our moreporks, for example, And wouldn’t want to use something that could potentially knock them on the head if they ate a recently poisoned mouse.

Something I didn’t realise is that the poison I’m already using has a high risk of secondary poisoning of predatory birds! If you don’t ask me before I looked at it this morning I would’ve said that was not the case but I have no idea where I got that information from…

Back to the drawing board.