Shari wrtoe;"I asked a pest control expert about it and he told me that A) the poison in the rat bait is species specific and so not particularly deadly to a chicken (nor dog, cat or human) and B) In order for another species to become ill, it would have to ingest quite a lot of the bait. He told me that in order for a mouse (or rat) to be killed by bait it would have to eat more than one block of it and so unless I was actually feeding it in large amounts to my birds, the few small pieces the birds may find would not hurt them. "
I have to thinlk he either didn't understand the question, didn't want to scare you aff, or didn't understand the poisons. They are not species specific in general, except for one called Rode-trol; (http://benedaniels.com/rodetrol.htm ) which is touted to be rodent specific. As a former Vet tech, I CAN tell you that there are many cases of pet poisonings from the usual rat poisons, Malrin, TomCat, OneBite, and the most common blue one I can't remember the name of. Not often a good outcome for the pets.I am too concious of the risk to use any of them, and I shudder at the thought of glue traps. Which leaves the Rode-trol. We put it out in the garage. I can't swear to it, but there are no longer any rats in my garage. However, it is entirely possible that they all moved to the shed which adjoins the chicken house, as there was a great supply of cow feed. I will try the Rode-trol there when I get the nerve, and report. Whatever lives in there is apparently live-trap savvy...
Margo
Pelzer SC
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