I buy the Just one Bite bars and divide them up too. I use several different baits in several diffferent presentations so the mice do not catch on to what is killing them. When I moved the pallets in the feed room there was a small square left of an entire package. I cleaned under the pallets and relimed the first of July. I keep bait stuck between the two pallet high base under my feed at all times. Even if you do not see a mouse or rat, if one has barns or sheds, there are mice. I have to stay on guard all the time. I can see the dumpster for Hungry Howies when I stand between the cattle barn and one of the baby barns because the street curves.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
rainbowsilkies MI
From: lafleche49 <hobbyguy@centurytel.net>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:36 AM
Subject: Non poison mouse trap.... was Re: [CHICKENS-101]
Hi Cathryn, I use a large bait bar that can be divided into quarters
if needed. Rodents go nuts over the smell and will search it out. Just one bite and they don't come back for seconds.
One of the funniest stories I have heard recently was told by my feed dealer who is also the one who sells me the bait bars. He told me a story about one of his customers who was having problems with "something" chewing holes in everything but leaving no sign of what it could be. My salesman told the man that he probably had a few rats that had moved in and it couldn't hurt to place a few bait bars around.
After arguing that he had lived on this place for many years and had never seen a rat in all that time he just couldn't see how it could be rats. [Some people think their place is so tidy that they couldn't possibly have rats or mice and that their kids couldn't come home from school with head critters either.] LOL
Anyway my salesman talked him into buying 4 large bars "just in case." The man went home and placed these bars up on a high shelf in his nifty little clean and perfect work shop, out of reach of children and pets, and never put out the bait in any area as he had been instructed.
The next morning he returned to the store and then waited until no other customers were in the store before he made his purchase. He told the salesman that he placed the bait, unopened, upon a shelf that was 6 feet off the floor and some how, something, [and it must have been rats] jumped up there,knocked it to the floor, and there was not even so much as a crumb of the 4 bars left in the morning !!!
This story is starting to sound like a grade school math problem but if each rat only took 6 bites each out of 4 pounds of poison bait, how many rats did it take to consume all of that bait ?!!!!
Anyway I was told he bought ten bars that morning and wasn't sure if it would be enough. LOL He is now a steady customer in the bar bait department. Dean
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CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@...> wrote:
I have several barns; I have to use bait. I use the jut one bait bars, warfarin bait, blue death, the green balls, dark green bars, and green bait pellet packs. My cat leaves her mice in the yard and comes in to eat. Because owls are nocturnal, hopefully no mice will be out for them to eat after eating bait. I bait under both baby barns, under the car ports, 4 rooms of the cattle barn including the feed room, under the corn crib, under the crate shed, the supply shed, and my garage.  My bait bills are horrendous. I need to make more bait stations and put more of them around the premises because it's fall and the mice are moving in. I took the last 4 I made to my parents for their barns and garage.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
if needed. Rodents go nuts over the smell and will search it out. Just one bite and they don't come back for seconds.
One of the funniest stories I have heard recently was told by my feed dealer who is also the one who sells me the bait bars. He told me a story about one of his customers who was having problems with "something" chewing holes in everything but leaving no sign of what it could be. My salesman told the man that he probably had a few rats that had moved in and it couldn't hurt to place a few bait bars around.
After arguing that he had lived on this place for many years and had never seen a rat in all that time he just couldn't see how it could be rats. [Some people think their place is so tidy that they couldn't possibly have rats or mice and that their kids couldn't come home from school with head critters either.] LOL
Anyway my salesman talked him into buying 4 large bars "just in case." The man went home and placed these bars up on a high shelf in his nifty little clean and perfect work shop, out of reach of children and pets, and never put out the bait in any area as he had been instructed.
The next morning he returned to the store and then waited until no other customers were in the store before he made his purchase. He told the salesman that he placed the bait, unopened, upon a shelf that was 6 feet off the floor and some how, something, [and it must have been rats] jumped up there,knocked it to the floor, and there was not even so much as a crumb of the 4 bars left in the morning !!!
This story is starting to sound like a grade school math problem but if each rat only took 6 bites each out of 4 pounds of poison bait, how many rats did it take to consume all of that bait ?!!!!
Anyway I was told he bought ten bars that morning and wasn't sure if it would be enough. LOL He is now a steady customer in the bar bait department. Dean
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CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@...> wrote:
I have several barns; I have to use bait. I use the jut one bait bars, warfarin bait, blue death, the green balls, dark green bars, and green bait pellet packs. My cat leaves her mice in the yard and comes in to eat. Because owls are nocturnal, hopefully no mice will be out for them to eat after eating bait. I bait under both baby barns, under the car ports, 4 rooms of the cattle barn including the feed room, under the corn crib, under the crate shed, the supply shed, and my garage.  My bait bills are horrendous. I need to make more bait stations and put more of them around the premises because it's fall and the mice are moving in. I took the last 4 I made to my parents for their barns and garage.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
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