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- Jan 25, 2021
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Get an infestation and you'll change your mind.Even a small bucket of that product costs more than a simple treadle feeder, nearly the price of a good treadle feeder, something that solves the actual problem instead of fighting with the symptoms forever more.
While the idea of less secondary poisoning is good, as any predator consuming the rodents will be absorbing the excess vitamin so the risk of secondary poisoning is less but not zero, the non stop need for poison takes time and money. Rodents are smart too, they will figure out what is killing them and avoid the bait.
Makes sense for huge commercial chicken houses as a stop gap measure but in the end the cheapest way and surest way to eliminate rodents is to stop feeding them. Fifth Crow Farms solved their problem with a few dozen of our treadle feeders for thousands of pastured chickens. Every five or six years they order a dozen replacement springs at buck each as their main problem was wild birds. Google their name and treadle feeder and you will find the story.
There is no reason to resort to poison as the main control method. It is irresponsible to do so.