I have yet to poision a nontarget species with well constructed bait stations. For rats and mice I use one bite bar bait. The bars are so hard that poultry cannot eat them and being locked inside a well constructed wooden box the birds can't get to them anyway. All permanent bait stations are best kept outside of the areas where your birds are housed such as a feed room or a hallway within the hen house.
An alternative to poison baits is mouse paper which I have found to be much better than the best mouse trap I have ever owned. In a poultry house it can be rolled and placed inside of a 2 foot section of 4 inch sewer pipe and placed along a wall where mice are often seen. When it is full take a long stick and shove it out the other end. Mouse paper also catches snakes, spiders, and other things that can pose a threat to us and our birds. As a foot note never place one of these sticky pipes in a coop with or near baby chicks. I am sure they would get caught in greater numbers than the mice. Dean
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In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, deb <perchie.girl@...> wrote:
Id be afraid to use antifreeze because its deadly for dogs and cats.
Sigh. Alcohol would work though. It wont freeze and mixes well with water.
I introduced myself a few posts back.... I am new to the group. This is the first one I have seen come through.
deb
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