Using D-Con in a vacant house. (flooring, foundation, Lowes, hot water heater)
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We are not totally sure how many tiny entrances there are in this vacant house. We know of one small rodent that may be a mouse or maybe a small rat.
It's eating up D-Con likes its candy.
How long to be rodent free with D-Con?
Until you stop new ones from coming in -- NEVER!
D-Con is designed to be tasty to rodents. That is so they will eat it then then scurry off and die. Then another one smells and tastes the D-Con, then another, and another. Some will die in the walls of the house some will actually leave and die elsewhere but as long as new ones keep coming in the D-Con will continue to be eaten.
D-Con is designed to be tasty to rodents. That is so they will eat it then then scurry off and die. Then another one smells and tastes the D-Con, then another, and another.
As of yesterday we have only seen one of them and we are trying to catch this one and see if there is even a second one. 36 hours of D-Con has not stopped this one, unless it is not the only one.
As of yesterday we have only seen one of them and we are trying to catch this one and see if there is even a second one. 36 hours of D-Con has not stopped this one, unless it is not the only one.
Why do you think you are only seeing one? Just because you only see one at a time? If you actually see the D-Con being eaten you better hope it isn't the same one. Now 36 hours may not be enough for it to fully take affect so I would give it more time. But D-Con will attract vermin. It id designed to be tasty to make them WANT to eat it. So other rodents will be attracted to it.
I think you need to plug up the holes you have with a foam gun (you can get them online too ) . Unless you plug up the holes in the house you will keep seeing rodents .
I would always use it to monitor the population by placing it inside foundation vents... sometimes it would be years before any would disappear... by being behind the vent screen it was protected but I could still do a visual each week at the properties I managed.
Look towards the bottom where it talks about use as a rodentcide. The stuff is nasty. In the pharmacies it has to be handled as toxic waste. Even the empty containers and the cotton from the bottles has to be kept in sealed baggies seperated from the other damaged pills, etc when disposed of.
Look towards the bottom where it talks about use as a rodentcide. The stuff is nasty. In the pharmacies it has to be handled as toxic waste. Even the empty containers and the cotton from the bottles has to be kept in sealed baggies seperated from the other damaged pills, etc when disposed of.
It's just a blood thinner. In humans, the dosage is therapeutic, but in a small rodent, what's therapeutic in a human is fatal, because it basically thins their blood so much that they bleed out. Same thing would happen in a human in an overdose situation.
But.. Those who spoke on sealing up how they're getting in is right. Flour is actually pretty good.. Sprinkle it around areas where they may be running and see if you can track the path.. It will also generally help tell you if there's more than one present.
I had some flooring replaced in November due to a failed hot water heater, and I had the guy drill a hole in the new flooring for the drain.. Well, he did it, but he didn't seal it up.. So I saw 1 mouse.. Put down a few glue boards, and within 3 hours, 4 were trapped. I put some steel wool and expanding foam in the hole.. Caught 2 more the next day.. Then none.
Seeing one doesn't mean there's lots more, but seeing one doesn't mean there's only one.
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