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Never mind the spider in the mirror
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14/12/2017 10:24
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Anyone recommend a WORKING mouse poison?
I'm lucky enough to have a dry dock for my Coupe...but she has an unwanted visitor-Mr or Mrs Mouse is in the engine bay...and the bait I am laying down is being eaten like popcorn!
Don't like to kill anything....but the mouse has the darn upper hand at the moment....(mouse traps are being skirted by it too...)
Thanks in advance
MM
Last edited by Master_Mariner; 14/12/2017 10:26.
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Re: Never mind the spider in the mirror
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14/12/2017 10:32
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If they are eating the poison then they will die. Where they die is the next problem.
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Re: Never mind the spider in the mirror
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Quarter of a chunk of chocolate on the trap works for Herefordian mice and I celebrate the kill with the rest of the bar the next day. To the meices. Good luck.
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Re: Never mind the spider in the mirror
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You need something like raco bait blocks but they need to go inside a proper bait box so that the blocks get kept in place by spikes. To stop them getting dragged out and left for a cat/dog/fox etc. to find. These are the only things that have worked for me*. Any of the grain based baits from dyas, screwfix, toolstation is pretty weak and therefore hit and miss and so you're better off sticking with a trap and chocolate as ^. The raco blocks are primarily for rats, but because they're so strong I've even had mice expire before they've left the bait box itself. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mouse-Poison-Ki...raco+rat+poisonhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/TrapMan-STATION...Y2V25PJ9Y7CH4DK*learnt the hard way after rats in the loft & cavity walls that took 8 months to get rid off and council's grain based bait proving useless.
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Re: Never mind the spider in the mirror
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Do you know for sure if it is mice and not rats? You can tell by the droppings.
There are basically 2 types of rat poisons, acute (fast acting) and chronic (slow acting). The slow ones are actually anticoagulants like warfarin, which no longer works very well. This is because the rats and mice become resistant to the poison over time. Warfarin is a first generation anticoagulant, then there are much stronger 2nd gen anticoagulants like difenacoum and brodifacoum. However in some parts of the country rats (not sure about mice) have even become tolerant to these chemicals.
Not sure what active ingredient is in the product you are using, but as a first step I'd be sure to be using a 2nd gen product like difenacoum, brodifacoum or flocoumafen. The one recommended above looks to be difenacoum based (actually I think the other two are only licensed for professional use).
The wax block should come with a hole in it so you can secure it in position with a cable tie. Regular inspection should show the feeding damage. If they are eating the bait then this should be sufficient to kill them within a few days. If they keep feeding then they must be resistant or you are next to a huge reservoir population (eg. like if you were parked in a farmyard barn).
If they don't die then you will need to get in a professional who will either use a stronger anticoagulant or an acute poison. With acute poisons you feed them untreated grain for a while to get them comfortable with the food source, then you put in the poison which will kill them almost immediately after feeding. The problem here is that the remaining rodents will very quickly realise that the bait is killing them and stop feeding at the bait station.
Good luck!
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