Fergus McMenemie wrote:
Its the time of year when all the mice come in from the fields. Some
of them end up in my attic. And as usual I went around and topped up
the mouse poison.

This year the stuff I got from B&Q (but made by Rentokil) looks to be
a grain coated in some kind of blue stuff, which I guess is the
poison. The stuff seems to be having little effect on the mice.
Inspecting the "food troughs" I have left around the attic I note
that almost all the grain as been eaten and I am left with a
considerable pile of blue skins or husks which was the coating from
the grain.

Its remarkable, but I suspect I am feeding rather than poisoning my
mice.

Anybody else run into this sort of thing? Or any suggestions on where
I can get better mouse poison which actually works. I note that B&Q,
and Homebase are both selling rebranded versions of the blue coated
grain from Rentokil. I suspect that many other hardware stores are
doing the same, but I cant open and inspect their goods.

it takes a while for it to work on mice, usually 4-6 days.
All the blue coated poisons are identical, so don't waste your money on
rentokil stuff when B&Q's own value range is exactly the same.
They don't build up resistance to it because it robs their bodies of vitamin
K and they can't live without that.

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Phil L
RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008