There is a significant savings for advance registration and the deadline for advance registration is November 27. As cooler weather sets in, a lot of extra mice and rats will move in out of the fields to take up house keeping in your swine facilities. This means that you may need to step up your rodent control program. Fortunately, baits tend to be more effective after cold weather arrives because insects and other forms of life, upon which mice and rats may feed in the summer, are not as available. Proper bait selection and placement will greatly improve the results of a baiting control program.
Rodent baits are available in several forms.
Grain baits in a loose meal or pelleted form are available in small plastic, cellophane, or paper packets. Rodents gnaw into the packet to feed on the bait. Anticoagulant baits formulated into paraffin blocks are useful in damp locations where loose grain baits would spoil quickly. Take care to avoid placing them in locations where they could be reached and fed on by pigs. A particularly good bait material for house mice is canarygrass seed.