My yard is a five acre hay field leading to a swamp and all the other sides are bounded by young pine forest. When the weather starts to get cool in the winter I always start to get little guests that invite themselves in for the winter. I have great success with traps baited with peanut butter and additionally I always set out trays of d-CON® rat pellets. The pellets disappear and with them signs of my little guests disappear too. Every now and then I will get something from a closet several rooms away, like today I got a pair of shoes, and one of the shoes was filled with d-CON® pellets. I’m looking for someone to reassure me that the mice are in fact killing themselves when they ferry the pellets from the tray through several rooms and into the closet where they hoard the snacks I’m supplying them with.
are you after rats or mice.
they are caching the pellets like any food. you are wasting it.
you want to place larger bait chunks in an enclose where mice (if that is what you are after) can fit in (small hole) and the bait chunk can’t be hauled out. this forces them to eat it in place and get a fatal dose.
the bait chunks have a hole through them which you can nail it to a board. the mouse or rat can’t carry this off and has to eat a deadly dose there.