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I'm a licensed pesticide applicator, the the best solution by far is rolled oats coated with zinc phosphide. Brand name is Prozap. Sprinkle a few under the car. One bite of one oat and they dead in seconds. They make it few inches.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
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I'm a licensed pesticide applicator, the the best solution by far is rolled oats coated with zinc phosphide. Brand name is Prozap. Sprinkle a few under the car. One bite of one oat and they dead in seconds. They make it few inches.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
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this one.......
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I'm a licensed pesticide applicator, the the best solution by far is rolled oats coated with zinc phosphide. Brand name is Prozap. Sprinkle a few under the car. One bite of one oat and they dead in seconds. They make it few inches.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
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Kind of like proving a negative, but, I did put one on my Tundra a few months ago after trying the sprays after they ate my knock sensor harness. Have not had any evidence of them returning since. It was pretty frequent before that. So I think they work. Hardwired into the battery.
this one.......
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this one.......
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Prove a negative?
I keep one of these under a Mazda CX5 that is parked on the drive. Put it in a small crab bait wire cage to make it easy to retrieve and hard to carry off. Both from amazon. 3 AAs lasted just short of 6 months. Beeps blinks red when batteries need to be changed. Does it work? No rats so it either does? Or I didn't need it to begin with. Being proactive made me feel engaged in the fight if nothing else.
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From: South-Central Coast California
I'm a licensed pesticide applicator, the the best solution by far is rolled oats coated with zinc phosphide. Brand name is Prozap. Sprinkle a few under the car. One bite of one oat and they dead in seconds. They make it few inches.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
Are you sure you have the brand name correct?
When I searched for "rolled oats coated with zinc phosphide" the top search result was for a product called "ZP Rodent Oat Bait" made by "Bell Laboratories".
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From: TEXAS
I put the plastic traps that are like little hotels out about the size of a large shoe box
Inside you put some sort of green candy bar with vitamin k or something like that in it and the mice get poisoned or have renal failure from K overdose ?
Sort of the same thing as the commercial ones you see at buildings in public
I put out like 20 of these around outside
Got them in the flowerbeds. Got them everywhere
Significantly knocked the darn mouse population down and have not seen them around the house since
They made a brand new $90k F-450 smell like mouse pee on start up and I was beside myself about it so I spent the cash to go to war on them and am kicking myself for not committing rodent genocide any sooner
EDIT TO ADD: Also, since I removed their primary food source, I have not seen a single snake this summer either, and I am usually seeing a fair share of copperheads, rattlers, and king snakes all summer. SO I am changing the ecosystem apparently
Inside you put some sort of green candy bar with vitamin k or something like that in it and the mice get poisoned or have renal failure from K overdose ?
Sort of the same thing as the commercial ones you see at buildings in public
I put out like 20 of these around outside
Got them in the flowerbeds. Got them everywhere
Significantly knocked the darn mouse population down and have not seen them around the house since
They made a brand new $90k F-450 smell like mouse pee on start up and I was beside myself about it so I spent the cash to go to war on them and am kicking myself for not committing rodent genocide any sooner
EDIT TO ADD: Also, since I removed their primary food source, I have not seen a single snake this summer either, and I am usually seeing a fair share of copperheads, rattlers, and king snakes all summer. SO I am changing the ecosystem apparently
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I'm a licensed pesticide applicator, the the best solution by far is rolled oats coated with zinc phosphide. Brand name is Prozap. Sprinkle a few under the car. One bite of one oat and they dead in seconds. They make it few inches.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
The active ingredient is converted to phosphine gas when it interacts with stomach acid. It dissipates from the body and is then harmless to other animals.
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Earlier this month I opened my garage door only to catch a glimpse of a smallish roof rat scurrying under my C8. I set out some mouse traps with peanut butter and in the morning one of them had trapped and killed it. I prefer to set traps where I can dispose of the dead animal instead of them dying somewhere I can't reach.
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Outdoor cats. Had an outbuilding infested with mice, rats, squirrels. Destroyed the insulation, chewed soffit and fascia, even chewed electrical wiring, and I won't mention the urinary and fecal waste. Tried a number of things but nothing worked saw well as outdoor cats. Another benefit- less snakes.