How to raise Backyard Chickens: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Use of rodenticides

Hi Sue, I am someone who preserves rare breeds of poultry and protects the wildlife on their farm by winter supplemental feeding and planting and maintaining proper nesting areas. I am also very careful about protecting the non target species from eating the rat and mouse bait or the dead rodents after the fact.

Here are a couple of articles that should be of interest to everyone who raises birds and animals of any sort. I am sure that as an animal rescue person there will be smoke coming out of your ears after you read all this and it it has had time to soak in. This is really not off topic because everyone here is a bird or animal raiser/ keeper of some sort. Some of this is going on almost in your back yard. Dean

http://www.naturalnews.com/031076_USDA_bird_deaths.html

Scroll down on the next link and read about all of the "other" species that are supposed to be protected by law but aren't. It is amazing what gets shoved under the carpet and what is released by the press as truth.

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/ecoterrorism-usda-admits-mass-poisoning-of-millions-of-animals/
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"wildliferescue29" <wildliferescue29@...> wrote:
I'm not sure if this is occurring in all states but where I am there is a new law concerning the use of rodenticides. They are being pulled from shelves and can now only be obtained and administered by licensed pest control services.

Evidently, their use has become a problem for not only wildlife (raptor eats a mouse that ingested poison and then also dies) but for domestic pets as well. Kitty eats a poisoned mouse etc.

I might mention that the use of antifreeze to kill mousies is not only risky but unnecessary. I've found that just leaving buckets out (empty or with water in them) will get the same results. For some reason, mousies like to find a way into buckets and they can't escape and die. If there's water in them, they quickly drown.

To prevent this from occurring with the dogs water buckets, I put a stick in so the mousies, chipmunks etc. can escape. Not fond of finding 'floaters' in the dogs water while they're lapping away...ewwww

Sue
Wildlife Rescue