Do Shop Bought Rat Poisons Work?

[PRESLEY]

1 minute ago, XPertByExperien said:

Except that'd be a pain to enforce and I doubt they'd want the extra work.

 

I was joking,  My God!  I would be permanently skint if that ever happened.  

[Chekhov]

15 minutes ago, RJRB said:

https://www.pest-expert.com/rat-poison-28-c.asp

This place is on Broadfield Road and might help you

I phoned a pest controller and he seemed a decent honest sort of chap. Basically he said if you cannot seal off the building from the outside (and it's not really practical to do that) then I could spend a lot of money and not necessarily cure the problem. He would not guarantee he could sort it anyway. He also said it was entirely possible we were killing quite  few rats with out bait but they were dying down in the sewers (or where ever else they breed) and not having the strength to climb back up the drain pipes (or whatever) into our false ceiling

 

* and we think they must be coming from outside as there is nothing for the rats to eat, apart from the bait ! And judgimng by the amount of it they eat I was only half kidding when I said there seemed more chance of them dying from indigestion ! !

Edited March 4, 2023 by Chekhov

[Prettytom]

On 04/03/2023 at 17:30, Chekhov said:

This is what we've been using, bought in batches of 25 bags !  :

 

Rodex25 Whole Wheat Rat Poison | STRONGEST BAIT AVAILABLE | One Dose Rat Killer

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382611481443?var=652244970237

 

"Because of their delayed mode of action, anticoagulant rodenticide may take between 4-10 days to be effective after consumption"

 

I thought all rat bait had the same type of anticoagulant poison ?

 

 

There are quite a few different compounds that are used as rodenticides. Have a look at the packaging for your grain bait, then maybe try some wax blocks with a different compound in them. You can

buy stuff on eBay.

 

I’d also get a second opinion from a pest controller. It can’t be that hard to find out how they are getting in.

[Chekhov]

We may have had some success.....

I ended up phoning a specialist pest control retailer and they said that Rodex25 worked but needed the rat to feed on it on successive days whereas Vertox25 would usually work with one feed. The retailer was more expensive than E Bay to buy the stuff from but I still used them, for the first batch at any rate, because they gave me the advice and therefore deserved the order.

So, having tried Rodex25 for a year or more with no apparent success, we swapped to Vertox25, and within days there was no more sound of rats in the suspended ceiling, and a few days after that the smell of decaying rodent.

 

 

[Chekhov]

We had no rats for months, then the patter of tiny feet restarted......

So we checked all the bait stations and they were empty so refilled them.

More success, the Vertox then killed another rat and no more pattering (and risk of cables being chewed through). We can tell the Vertox has killed one because the rodent didn't do the helpful thing and crawl off back to the sewer to die so we now have a temporary plague of flies. How discourteous of it !

Our insect killers ("fly fryers") are earning their keep however.

Edited May 16, 2023 by Chekhov

[Prettytom]

13 hours ago, Chekhov said:

We had no rats for months, then the patter of tiny feet restarted......

So we checked all the bait stations and they were empty so refilled them.

More success, the Vertox then killed another rat and no more pattering (and risk of cables being chewed through). We can tell the Vertox has killed one because the rodent didn't do the helpful thing and crawl off back to the sewer to die so we now have a temporary plague of flies. How discourteous of it !

Our insect killers ("fly fryers") are earning their keep however.

You can thank me any time you like😁

[Chekhov]

I want to put  link onto the posts about the effectiveness of Vertox from the opener but it is no longer editable. 

Has anyone any ideas how I could so that ?

[Janus]

On 29/06/2022 at 10:00, Chekhov said:

How do you get rid of rats ?

Is it actually possible to get rid of them with shop bought poisons ?

We have been putting down "Rodex25 Rat Poison, [the] Strongest Available Online" for months and the little sods are eating loads of it, but it doesn't seem to be getting rid of them. In fact they eat so much of it I reckon there's more chance of them dying of indigestion than poisoning.....

 

Rodex25 Whole Wheat Rat Poison | STRONGEST BAIT AVAILABLE | One Dose Rat Killer

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382611481443?var=652244970237

 

I understand you wanted the RODEX  to be edited in to help others . The  ebay seller above Elixer cannot be trusted.

 

My reason for posting is that I purchased some large plant pots from Elixer and was sent some thin rubbish ones instead of what I had purchased.

 

By all means purchase the RODEX brand but choose your  seller very carefully. 

Edited May 22, 2023 by Janus

[Chekhov]

12 hours ago, Janus said:

I understand you wanted the RODEX  to be edited in to help others . The  ebay seller above Elixer cannot be trusted.

 

My reason for posting is that I purchased some large plant pots from Elixer and was sent some thin rubbish ones instead of what I had purchased.

 

By all means purchase the RODEX brand but choose your  seller very carefully. 

I wouldn't buy Rodex 25 anyway Janus, it didn't work ! Vertox 25 did however.