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AMCA26 wrote:Dad has used the mashed potato mix i think known as DEB, apparently they eat it, it swells up inside and die as it expands!

Note to self,Dont eat deb potato straight from packet.

my dad is better than your dad. hang on how old am i , my old man used plaster of paris mixed with icing sugar similar to amca26 used deb potato mix. they eat the stuff and go nuts on it because of the icing sugar till the plaster sets hard in there guts. it sounds cruel but its non toxic to bird life that could eat there droppings....pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsoVcrFyrF8
This is a good one. Welcome to the forum. Do you have finches?
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John123john wrote: 14 Sep 2017, 04:11 a mouse has started eating one of my red tulip bunnies

Well . . At least, now you know what to mix with your ground up rat-bait

Dunno about Berlin, but over here the old adage about something being 'as dear as poison' holds very true

There are two types of ratsack, one is that mice eat & die (internally bleed to death) quickly, the other mice need to return several times to get a dose & eventually die, the reason for these is, that if mice see their own die quickly, will not go back to the bait.
The ones I use & are very effective at catching multiple mice, is called the humane mouse trap, you catch them & drown them in a bucket of water, they seem to like the sunflower seed as the "bait".
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nicko those mouse traps are great, but after having a star hen go head first into one and comit hari kiri several years ago, never put them in the avairy. I prefer the plastic tilting jobs that just trap them, then I drown the sods in a nice deep bucket.
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Yeah that is a possibility, I modified mine so that the mouse entered at a right angle to the hole & that seems to work ok.

I use bromakill and mix a couple of scoops of lorikeet nectar (powder) theu cant resist it